The South is America’s poverty belt, and Republicans want to make all of America more like the South
The South has never been America’s bright spot when it comes to things like poverty and health outcomes, but recent...
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Exclusive: Inside the Koch Brothers’ Secret Billionaire Summit
This is what happens when Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Cory Gardner and a gang of the world’s richest...
Gov. Paul LePage on Social Security: “It is welfare, pure and simple”
Responding to a Bureau of Economic Analysis study that found the state’s personal-income growth during the first three months of...
Serial School Privatizer “Chainsaw Paul” Vallas Gets Ready For His Next Job
After savaging public education in Chicago, Philly, New Orleans and Bridgeport, Vallas has been summoned home to Illinois by the...
Rep. Issa: Shielding $300 Billion in Tax Evasion
Many Americans dislike the IRS and will paint you a vivid picture of the tax man knocking down your door...
Iraq and Detroit: Both Plundered by the Same Bandits
The ugly face of empire and disaster capitalism is visible all over the world. Detroit, Michigan, was once a thriving...
Massachusetts Passes The Highest State Minimum Wage In The Country
The Massachusetts House passed a bill that will raise the state’s minimum wage to $11 an hour by 2017. The...
Koch-Funded Group Won’t Back Kansas Republicans Who Support Clean Energy
A Republican state legislator in Kansas is being targeted by a new Koch-funded effort to oust those who want to...
Koch Brothers Plan $300 Million Spending Spree In 2014
The billionaire Koch brothers and their political network are planning to spend almost $300 million during the 2014 election cycle,...
Arizona GOPer Compares Poor To ‘Lazy Pigs’
A Republican official in Arizona on Wednesday confirmed something that’s long been suspected. State schools superintendent John Huppenthal has been...
Robert Reich: The Three Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Poverty
Rather than confront poverty by extending jobless benefits to the long-term unemployed, endorsing a higher minimum wage, or supporting jobs...
Someone Just Spent $1.5 Million on a GOP Senate Candidate. Who Was It?
Arkansas is witnessing what may be the most expensive political ad campaign in state history: $1.5 million worth of glowing...
Down with healthy school lunches, says House GOP
Having already moved to gut USDA programs promoting agricultural conservation and renewable energy and strip the USDA of its authority...
The 37 Senators Who Voted for Millionaires Over Students
On Wednesday, June 11, Senate Republicans sided with 22,000 millionaires over 40 million Americans with student debt by blocking the...
The Right’s Despicable Class War on the Poor
The old adage about sticks and stones may finally apply more soundly to the rich than the poor. According to...
GOP Will Do Anything to Keep the Poor Uninsured
When it comes to healthcare, Southwest Virginia is a desperate place. Many of the state’s poorest and sickest live in...
New Report Documents How Privatization Steals Wages, Harms Communities
All across the country, public services are increasingly outsourced to private contractors in the name of efficiency and cost savings....
House GOP Votes Down Measure Aimed At Curbing Wage Theft
WASHINGTON — Early Friday morning, House Republicans voted down a measure that would have discouraged the government from giving contracts...
Is David Koch Getting a Tax Writeoff for Dropping $900K on the Walker Race?
The “charitable” wing of David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity has dropped nearly $900,000 on ads to boost Wisconsin Governor Scott...
Judge who ended probe of Koch activities in WI regularly attends Koch-funded junkets
A federal judge who stopped Wisconsin’s criminal investigation of spending during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections regularly attends all-expense...
Can a New Populist Movement Fight Off American Oligarchy?
At the ‘New Populism Conference’ hosted by the Campaign for America’s Future on Thursday, a number of progressive thinkers and...
U.S. Democrats to target companies moving overseas to dodge taxes
Corporate tax-dodging deals known as inversions, in which a U.S. multinational shifts its tax domicile to a lower-tax country, would...
“It’s total moral surrender”: Matt Taibbi unloads on Wall Street, inequality and our broken justice system
His relentless coverage of Wall Street malfeasance turned him into one of the most influential journalists of his generation, but...
GOP’s fake poverty push gets a new charlatan: Rob Portman’s latest ploy
Mitt Romney’s 47 percent video has had two important, lasting contributions to American politics. The first is that it kept...
Democrats Urge Curb on Offshore Tax Moves Amid Pfizer Bid
Senator Carl Levin said he is writing legislation to block U.S. companies from shifting their legal addresses overseas to lower...
Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity plans $125 million election spending spree
The Koch brothers’ main political arm intends to spend more than $125 million this year on an aggressive ground, air...
The Striking Rise of the American Oligarchs
A new study that will appear in the fall 2014 issue of Perspectives on Politics concludes that the United States...
Corporate Power, Wal-Mart and the Undermining of the Democratic Process
Studies have shown a significant correlation between monies spent and the outcome of elections. While there are still instances where...
GOP Lawmakers Fought To Keep People Uninsured
WASHINGTON — Eight million Americans are insured through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges, President Barack Obama announced Thursday. Wendy TwarDokus...
Koch-Funded Groups Fuel Assault On Kansas Clean Energy Law
A bill designed to repeal Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an...
Reaganomics Killed America’s Middle Class
When we had heavily regulated and taxed capitalism in the post-war era, the largest employer in America was General Motors,...
Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy
A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists.
This State Isn’t Waiting For Congress To Pass A $10.10 Minimum Wage
Maryland’s minimum wage will rise to $10.10 over the next four years under a bill passed Monday night. Gov. Martin...
Pressure Mounts For Higher Federal Minimum Wage
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Civil rights groups, labor organizer and their allies are stepping up pressure on Congress to pass legislation...
Politicians Talk Tough On Tax Haven Reform, But Activists Say Talk Is Cheap
Big players are taking unprecedented steps to stop offshore abuses, but financial crime fighters worry reforms don’t go far enough.
Senate Republicans Unanimously Block Equal Pay Bill
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans unanimously voted against advancing the Paycheck Fairness Act. Forty-three voted against invoking cloture, joined by Independent...
Lawmakers Take the ‘Minimum Wage Challenge’ to Eat Off a Reduced Budget for a Week
Rashida Tlaib is a state representative in Michigan. But on Wednesday when she checked out at her grocery store, she...
For Adelson, Koch Brothers, Buying a Politician is Good Business
People like Sheldon Adelson support candidates who are in favor of lowering tax rates for corporations and the super-wealthy —...
Robert Reich Explains the War on the Poor and Working Families
Connect the dots between policies that keep many of our fellow Americans desperate, and you’ll see they add up to...
The Government Listens to Lobbyists and the Wealthy, Not You and Me
When organized interest groups or economic elites want a particular policy passed, there’s a strongly likelihood their wishes will come...
Reid: Koch Brothers Want ‘to Buy America’
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) accused the Koch brothers of “trying to buy America”.
Ryan Plan Gets 69 Percent of Its Budget Cuts From Programs for People With Low or Moderate Incomes
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s new budget cuts $3.3 trillion over ten years (2015-2024) from programs that serve people...
The Republican Budget: An Assault on the Middle Class
(CNN) — Strong countries need a thriving middle class, but in America today, the people who have to work for...
For Services Rendered? Wall Street’s Big Paydays For Trade Negotiators
If you take the king’s shilling, says the old saying, then you do the king’s bidding. So what happens when...
Romney’s Wrong, 1 Percenters Are the True Takers
Yes, there are “takers” in the American economy, but they’re not the poor folks Mitt Romney referenced in his now-infamous...
The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party
There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who...
