Community Solar Project to Retrain Underemployed and Unemployed Coal Miners
San Diego-based Solar Alliance Energy plans to build a 500 kW community solar generation and battery storage project in Southern...
Category: Betterment
Clinton Proposes Raising Taxes on U.S. Billionaire Estates
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday proposed raising taxes on inherited property to 65 percent for the largest...
Middle Class Americans Just Got a Huge Income Boost
It looks like Americans finally got a raise. The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday released its annual report on income,...
Right-Wing Corporate Media Ignores The Fact That Obama is Officially America’s Greatest Job Creator President
Guess who gets no credit for record setting job growth that is hardly a one-off since it’s going on for...
Scott Walker Defeated As Federal Judge Strikes Down Parts of Wisconsin Voter Suppression Laws
(Reuters) – A federal judge has struck down a string of Wisconsin voting restrictions passed by the Republican-led legislature and...
President Obama Announces Solar-Boosting Initiative
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a series of measures aimed at boosting access to solar energy—a move one environmental...
Tennessee Thumbs Nose At Reactionary Koch Bros, Hosts Cutting-Edge Solar Energy Storage Demo
The great state of Tennessee is on the cutting edge of new energy storage tech, thanks partly to its role...
Victory For Labor — D.C. Enacts $15 Minimum Wage
The growing Fight for 15 movement had a huge victory this week. Washington, D.C. passed legislation on Monday night that...
Why the Verizon Worker’s Victory is A Big Deal
On Friday, May 27, the six-and-a-half-week Verizon strike came to an end with a tentative contract agreement. The Communications Workers...
McDonald’s CEO Admits Obama’s Economy and Higher Wages Is A Huge Success
The CEO of McDonald’s fast food chain, Steve Easterbrook, was pleased to announce that driven by the President’s push for...
Uninsured Rate Cut to Single Digits Thanks to Obamacare
More than 7 million Americans who were previously uninsured received healthcare coverage in 2015, during the second full year of...
New York Joins California on the Path to a $15 Minimum Wage and Paid Family Leave
California’s legislature passed a $15 minimum wage on Thursday—and the same day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state legislators made a...
Top Economist Says Bernie Sanders’ Plan Would Lead to a Big Increase in Median Income and Jobs
Gerald Friedman, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, prepared an exclusive analysis to CNN Money on Bernie...
Bernie Sanders’ Single-Payer Healthcare Plan Will Save American Families $1200 a Year
This week Hillary Clinton’s campaign launched a barrage of assaults on Bernie Sanders’ single-payer healthcare plan, claiming that the plan...
Obama’s Executive Action Insures That 5 Million Workers Will Get A Raise In 2016
In June, President Obama signed an executive order that directed the Labor Department to chance the rules for overtime pay....
Major powers pledge $20 billion for green energy research
The US and 18 other countries have pledged to double funds for clean energy research to a total of $20bn...
Louisiana Vote Sets Stage to Give a Quarter of a Million People Health Care
Republican Sen. David Vitter lost his bid to be the next governor of Louisiana on Saturday, and it wasn’t even...
Millennials are Revitalizing Organized Labor
Millennials are often made out to be selfish and individualistic, but they appear to be taking a greater interest in...
Hillary Clinton Calls for Raising the Federal Minimum Wage to $12 Per Hour
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday at two campaign stops in Iowa that she would like to...
Montana Becomes 30th State To Expand Medicaid Under ObamaCare
The Obama administration gave final approval to Montana’s Medicaid expansion plan, making the Big Sky State the 30th U.S. state...
Pope Francis Forgoes Lunch with Politicians to Dine with the Homeless
We now know why the United States Congress absolutely did not want Pope Francis to come to America. He makes...
Target Employees Score Victory, Form Union in New York
A group of Target pharmacy employees in Brooklyn, NY voted to unionize, making them the first union in Target’s century-long...
Cities Could Save $17 Trillion By Reducing CO2 Emissions
Making cities greener could save a lot of, well, green, according to a new report. The report, published Tuesday by...
Cutting Pentagon Waste Will Help America’s Middle Class
The average cost of childcare in the United States now exceeds the cost of in-state college tuition. And since the...
Democratic Governor Cuomo Proposes State-Wide $15 Minimum Wage
On Thursday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) will become the first governor to call for a $15 minimum wage...
Colorado Invests in Community Solar Projects
In what is described as being the first statewide initiative of its kind, Colorado has awarded a grant of $1.2...
Pope Francis Calls On The Rich And Powerful To ‘Care’ For The Planet
He’s been criticized by Catholics and conservatives. He was even called the “most dangerous person on the planet” for his views on...
Labor Board Ruling Makes It Easier for Fast-Food Workers to Unionize
McDonald’s, Burger King and every other company that relies on a franchise business model just suffered the legal setback they’ve...
Approval Of Labor Unions Among Americans Jumps To Six Year High
More evidence that America is becoming more liberal can be found in a new poll that revealed growing public support...
Social Security: 80 Years Old and Still Going Strong Despite Attacks from Conservatives
Social Security is one of the most popular and successful government programs in US history. For 80 years, in strong...
Conservatives Have a Hissy-Fit Over Netflix Announcement of Paid Maternity Leave
If one listens to Republicans, and their Chamber of Commerce directors, the reason there is not full employment and why...
Hillary Clinton Wants to Help Students by Limiting Tax Deductions for the Rich
Hillary Clinton promises to reduce the growth and burden of student debt if she is elected president by taxing high...
Bernie Sanders Vows to Stop the Koch Brothers “Legalized Bribery” of Republicans
Sen. Bernie Sanders will be unveiling new legislation on the Senate floor today that will put an end to the...
Warren Victory: Companies Must Now Disclose How Much More Their CEOs Make Than Their Average Worker
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday approved a rule requiring companies to release key executive compensation information. The CEO...
Republicans Love to Lie About Medicare as President Obama Points Out
President Obama is pushing back against the Republican lies about Medicare while celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid....
Senator Bernie Sanders Supports Federal Contract Workers’ Strike
A group of progressive members of Congress introduced a $15 an hour national minimum wage bill on Wednesday as hundreds of...
Workers Score Another Victory As $15 Minimum Wage Advances In New York
There aren’t a lot of obscure government board meetings that warrant a watch party, let alone one with a marching...
Obama Dismisses the Grumbling of Republican War Hawks
The accord struck in Vienna to rein in Iran’s nuclear activities has warmongers fulminating. Citizens worldwide should support U.S. President...
President Obama’s Goal: Make Solar Power For All A Reality
For a long time, everybody thought of solar panels as something only rich people could afford. But when you think...
President Obama to Spread Solar Power to Renters, Poor Communities
The Obama administration is starting a new program designed to spread solar power and solar industry jobs to a wider...
Bernie Sanders Plans to Extend Solar Energy To The Poor
Sen. Bernie Sanders hit the Koch brothers where it counts by proposing new legislation that make solar energy more accessible...
Spanish anti-austerity party and US economist advance green energy
The Spanish anti-austerity party Podemos has teamed up with a US economist to launch a green energy plan that they...
Obama Acts To Raise Overtime Wages For 5 Million Workers
The media proclaimed “lame duck” president has roared back again, as President Obama signed an executive order this morning order...
Democratic Policies Spur Economic Growth in Minnesota
An annual CNBC scorecard that rates each state on 60 measures of competitiveness finds that Democratic run Minnesota is the...
Majority of Americans Now Approve of Obamacare
According to a new CBS News/New York Times poll, for the first time in the poll’s history, more Americans approve...
Republicans Disheartened As 86% Of Enrollees Like Their Obamacare
As Republicans are working the Supreme Court to take Obamacare away from everyone in states that have not set up...
