‘Incredible’: Covid Stimulus Funds Reduced Overall US Poverty in 2020
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing spike in unemployment, poverty in the U.S. declined by roughly 2.6% from 2019 to...
Category: Betterment
Senate Democrats fighting to tax billionaires and pass bill to invest in working families
The collective wealth of the top billionaires in the U.S. has increased by nearly two-thirds during the pandemic, not only...
26 million workers have gotten a raise thanks to the Fight for $15
The Fight for $15 kicked off in November 2012, with a relatively small—yet also historically large—group of New York City...
Police Departments Invest In Teslas To Save Fuel $$
Cities looking to do right by their communities on climate are greening their expenditures, and that goal is made a...
Democrats’ child tax credit payments will hit bank accounts soon
Back in March, when Democrats were still working to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan into law,...
Biden targets big tech in executive order aimed at anti-competitive practices
Joe Biden has signed an executive order targeting anti-competitive practices across the economy that could have major ramifications for America’s...
Record High Number of Americans Now Get Their Coverage Through ‘Obamacare’
More people than ever are getting health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, providing new proof of the law’s value...
Report Shows Stimulus Checks Significantly Reduced Hardship for Families
A new report finds that the direct relief checks that were sent out as part of the stimulus packages passed...
Biden pledges to restore the IRS and crack down on rich tax cheats
In what is a ridiculously long overdue proposal, President Joe Biden is advocating doubling the size of the IRS, adding tens...
Administration Releases “America The Beautiful” Conservation Plan
The Biden administration laid out its plan on Thursday to conserve 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030. The report seeks...
U.S. Department Of Energy Spurs Solar Deployment In Underserved Communities
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a slate of new efforts, including $15.5 million in new funding, to...
Biden Order Will Raise Minimum Wage for Federal Contract Workers to $15 an Hour
President Joe Biden on Tuesday plans to sign an executive order raising the minimum wage for workers under federal contracts...
Report Says Electric Cars Will Save Americans $2.7 Trillion, Create 2 Million Jobs
A new report by the University of California at Berkeley makes several bold claims. First, it says all new cars and trucks...
Corporate taxes can’t stay low while America crumbles
The days since President Joe Biden introduced his infrastructure plan have seen an all-hands push from his economic team to convince the...
Biden Administration Takes Out The Trump Trash By Getting Rid Of 40 Trump EPA Appointees
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan has dismissed more than 40 key science advisers appointed by former President Donald Trump, a move...
Bernie Sanders Introduces Bills to Lower Prescription Drug Costs
A head of a subcommittee hearing on the “soaring” cost of prescription drugs in the U.S., Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont),...
Biden To Raise Taxes On The Rich After Cutting Child Poverty In Half
President Biden cut child poverty in half with the American Rescue Plan, and he is following it up by making...
Nearly 60% of Americans Support A $15/Hour Minimum Living Wage
The idea of raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 from its current $7.25 is broadly popular, a Reuters/Ipsos...
Legislative Proposal to End ‘Runaway Tax Evasion’ by US Millionaires and Billionaires
Congressman Ro Khanna on Thursday unveiled legislation to help the Internal Revenue Service “put an end to runaway tax evasion...
AOC raised $1 million for the people of Texas while Ted Cruz was jetting-off to Cancun
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz and right wing extremists Erick Erickson, Dinesh D’Souza, Ben Shapiro, and Donald Trump, Jr., all thought there was nothing...
Biden Administration Reviews Trump’s Assaults on America’s Natural Treasures
The Biden administration says it has begun reaching out to elected officials, Native American tribes and other stakeholders as part...
Biden moves swiftly to protect workers’ rights
Time and again over the past few years, as he fought to protect his coworkers at Bobcat’s North Dakota plant,...
How Rural America Is Reaping Economic Development Benefits from the Growth of Renewables
Despite a turbulent start to the 2020s, an important and positive message for rural America is emerging in the decade...
Biden Aims to Replace Federal Auto Fleet With Electric Vehicles
President Joe Biden said on Monday that internal combustion cars and trucks in the federal government’s existing vehicle fleet will...
Child tax credit in Biden-Harris COVID-19 relief plan would boost millions of kids out of poverty
The Biden-Harris plan for COVID-19 relief contains a lot of good stuff tucked into it, like this: a child tax...
Biden Orders on Food Aid Heralded as ‘Most Significant Anti-Hunger Actions in Modern Times’
Social justice organizations and Democratic lawmakers on Friday welcomed President Joe Biden’s expected executive actions boosting federal food aid as...
Biden Calls for $15 Federal Minimum Wage With Pandemic Relief Package
With more than a third of households struggling to afford basic needs such as food and rent, President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a...
New York Becomes The First State To Divest From Oil And Gas
New York state announced plans on Wednesday to eject oil and gas stocks from its $226 billion financial portfolio, becoming...
Trump still trying to destroy Obamacare — a crucial lifeline during the pandemic
Ten years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is now asking the Supreme Court to overturn it....
New Analysis Details How Electrifying the US Economy by 2035 Could Create 25 Million Green Jobs
A report released Wednesday by a new nonprofit—in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the resulting economic disaster, and calls...
‘Resounding’ Win for Public Health and Climate as Judge Blocks Trump Attempt to Gut Methane Restrictions
Green groups celebrated a “resounding victory for taxpayers, public health, and the environment” late Wednesday after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from...
Student Movement Leads To 100% Renewable Energy Policy For Salt Lake City Schools
Ready for a dollop of good news in an otherwise bleak world? A movement begun by high school students in...
Sanders Applauds New Medicare for All Study: Will Save Americans $450 Billion and Prevent 68,000 Deaths
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday applauded a new study published today by a team of epidemiologists in the peer-reviewed medical...
How Warren’s plan to take profit out of health care would lift millions of families out of poverty
Poverty makes people sick. Families in poverty are more likely than wealthy families to get sick, stay sick, and delay...
Elizabeth Warren Proves That Most Americans Will Get a Big Tax Break Under Medicare for All
It won’t be a burden. It will be a relief. And for the large majority of those living in the...
Democrats Take Aim at ‘Trust Fund Babies’ With Estate Tax Designed to Combat Wealth Inequality
California Congressman Jimmy Gomez on Friday introduced legislation in the Democrat-controlled U.S. House that aims to address “our country’s rapidly...
Warren Unveils “Most Sweeping Set of Anti-Corruption Reforms Since Watergate”
Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday unveiled a wide-ranging plan to combat corruption in U.S. politics with...
United Electrical Union Endorses Green New Deal and Global Climate Strike
Embracing the Green New Deal as “our best hope to meet the challenge of climate change while creating millions of...
Clean Tech Jobs Lead Employment Statistics In Twelve US States
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and projections from the Projections Managing Partnership, Yahoo Finance has charted which jobs...
The Green New Deal is already happening in several cities and states
Last week, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey, along with 66 House representatives and 10 Senators, introduced their highly-laudedGreen New...
US Clean Energy Jobs Outnumber Fossil Fuel Jobs Three to One
Last year’s downturn in solar installations put a damper on the clean energy party in the US, but that’s only...
How Medicare for all would drastically lower prescription drug prices
Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s (D-WA) recently introduced Medicare for All Act of 2019 is a powerful and comprehensive plan to make...
California’s $100 Million 2019 Low Income Solar Program
California’s investor-owned utilities are preparing to spend up to $100 million this year bringing solar to low income buildings, with...
University Of Delaware Sets Up Courses To Train Offshore Wind Professionals
Last fall, the University of Delaware, in partnership with the Energy and Climate Academy of Denmark, announced it was creating a...
Solar Panel Installer and Wind Turbine Tech Are Fastest Growing Occupations In US
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the fastest growing occupation in the US is solar PV installer, with a projected...
Progressive Democrats Attempt to Resurrect FDR’s Second Bill Of Rights
Most Americans do not realize it but January 11th 2019 marks 75 years since President Rosevelt, proposed free college education,...
