Trickle-down economics hollowed out the middle class. It’s time to stop listening to the architects of inequality
On April 30, 2012, Edward Conard, a former partner for the financial management company Bain Capital and a multimillionaire who...
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Bernie Sanders Debuts A Real Family Values Agenda
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is taking back family values from the Republican Party by unveiling his Family Values Agenda. The...
Our Economy Would Work Much Better by Making the Polluters Pay
Instead of investing in dirty fuels, let’s start charging polluters for poisoning our skies – and then invest the revenue...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon Smacks Down Anti-Union ‘Right To Exploit’ Bill With His Veto Pen
Missouri Democratic Governor Jay Nixon vetoed a controversial right to work bill (House Bill No. 116) on Thursday. In rejecting...
Report Shows The Oil Industry Benefits From $5.3 Trillion in Taxpayer Subsidies Annually
According to the oil industry, the very idea of ending billions-of-dollars in taxpayer subsidies for the profitable industry is un-American;...
The Obama Economy Sets A New Record: 63rd Consecutive Month of Private Sector Job Growth
May marks a new record for President Obama’s private sector job growth record, with the private sector adding 12.6 million...
Republican Nightmare: Bernie Sanders Exposes GOP Social Security Killing Dreams
Bernie Sanders is becoming a daily nightmare for Republicans. Sen. Sanders went on CNN today and cut through the Republican...
Tide Turning Against Koch Front Group ALEC In The Renewable Energy Battle
Powerful interests are facing off on the future of renewable energy in North Carolina. A bill to freeze the state’s...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Rips The SEC For Failing to Protect the Public
In yet another example of how politics are personal, the public is being put at risk by the head of...
Millionaire Jeb Bush Decides That Americans Need To Work Longer Before They Can Retire
Slacker Alert: Jeb Bush is calling to push the retirement age to 68 or 70. That will fix you entitled...
The party of the rich is now doing everything in its power to make sure those without money live in misery
Last week my colleague Simon Maloy caught us up with the latest on Kanses Gov. Sam Brownback’s famous Arthur Laffer...
Kansas Republicans Finally Admit That Their Tax Cuts For The Wealthy Have Failed
With the state budget forecast to have a 400 million dollar shortfall, Kansas Republicans are finally acknowledging that the massive...
America will die old and broke: The right-wing plan to ransack the middle-class nest egg
Through a quirk in state term limits combined with a terrible midterm election, the Nevada legislature has been taken over...
Bernie Sanders Launches His Presidential Campaign With A Declaration Of War On The Kochs
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) officially launched his presidential campaign with a vowed goal of building a movement that will take...
Bernie Sanders Explains How Criminal Fraud Is The Big Banks’ Business Model
Bernie Sanders reacted to the news that the big banks pled guilty to manipulating currency markets by blunting saying that...
Republicans Have Passed 0 Jobs Bills During Their First 138 Days Running Congress
In their first 138 days in control of Congress, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have passed zero jobs bill. Instead,...
Economist Robert Reich – Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #4: Bust Up Wall Street
When Americans think of how the economic rules are stacked against them, they naturally think of Wall Street. When the...
Report: Rising inequality hurts economic growth
The widening gap between haves and have-nots in much of the developed world not only raises concerns about the fraying...
Democrat Busts Republican Scheme to Screw With Medicare To Benefit Corporations
During a Health Subcommittee Hearing on Competition in Medicare, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) busted Republicans for trying to elimate competition...
‘Fight for 15’ protest shuts down McDonald’s HQ
The corporate office of McDonald’s in Oak Brook, Illinois was closed after thousands of workers and union activists marched on...
Bernie Sanders Plans To Make College Free By Raising Taxes On Wall Street
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled legislation today that would make tuition free at all public four-year colleges and universities by...
Big Banks Fined Billions For Currency Manipulation Scheme
The Department of Justice announced the guilty pleas of five big banks: Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Barclays PLC, The...
Los Angeles Votes To Raise Minimum Wage To $15
Los Angeles on Tuesday became the biggest U.S. city to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour. Following a...
This Billionaire Tried To Get University Scientists Fired For Doing Their Job
Despite a growing body of scientific research connecting oil and gas activity to a dramatic spike in earthquakes across several...
Bernie Sanders Is Terrifying Wall Street By Pushing Hillary Clinton To The Left
Wall Street is openly worrying that Bernie Sanders is pushing Hillary Clinton to the left by calling for the biggest...
Obama Rips Fox News For Spreading Class Warfare Propaganda
While speaking at Georgetown University, the President called out Fox News by name: “But part of it has also been...
GOP-Koch Drive To Privatize Rail Service Caused Deadly Amtrak Derailment
It is nearly impossible to keep track of the myriad ways America is falling behind the rest of the industrialized...
Scott Walker Wrecks Wisconsin And Proves That Tax Cuts For The Rich Don’t Work
Governor Scott Walker promised Wisconsinites that he could jump start the economy with tax cuts for big business, even though...
Bernie Sanders Delivers A Body Blow To Wall St With New Bill To Break Up The Big Banks
Sen. Bernie Sanders is taking on Wall Street directly with a new bill that would break up the nation’s “too...
Governor Brownback’s Trickle Down ‘Experiment’ is Turning Schools into Poorhouses
At least eight school districts in Kansas are closing their doors early for the summer as a result of Kansas...
The IRS Is Investigating The Koch Brothers’ Illegal Tax-Deductions Denying Climate Change
There are myriad reasons why someone has intense hostility towards, and aversion to, a person or thing that typically derives...
Study: Thirty-five Years of Conservative Policies Contributed to Violence In Baltimore
Ayn Rand devotee Paul Ryan weighed in on the reason for violence in Baltimore and used it to continue his...
Fight for $15 swells into largest protest by low-wage workers in US history
McDonald’s workers will gatecrash the burger company’s shareholder meeting later this month with “the biggest-ever protest” demanding an end to...
Democratic bill aims to hike U.S. minimum wage to $12
Nearly 38 million Americans — or one in four workers– would get a raise under a bill introduced this week...
On Day One Of His Presidential Campaign, Bernie Sanders Is The Kochs Worst Nightmare
At a press conference where he laid out his agenda, Sen. Sanders took on the Koch brothers: “The major issue...
Robert Reich: The wealthy have broken society by siphoning all its money to themselves
Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, published an essay in the most recent American Prospect in which...
Obama Stands Up For Veterans By Vowing To Veto GOP Bill That Cut Benefits For 70,000 Vets
While Congressional Republicans wave the flag with one hand, they are trying to cut benefits for 70,000 veterans with the...
Bernie Sanders Reveals That Republican Budget Kills 2.3 Million Jobs
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) dropped a bomb on Senate Republicans by revealing that their budget would kill more than 2...
The Koch Brothers Try To Fool The American People With A Deceitful PR Campaign
It has been just about a year since Charles Koch wrote a ‘woe is me’ op-ed to combat the bad...
Job Killing GOP Governors Have Resumes That Should Disqualify Them From Being President
Three sitting Republican Governors interested in seeking a promotion to become U.S. President, represent states that have posted well-below average...
How Raising The Minimum Wage To $15 Changed These Workers’ Lives
SEATAC, Washington — In late 2013, voters in this airport town outside Seattle narrowly approved a groundbreaking measure setting a...
Governor Snyder’s Plan To Erase Public Education In Detroit
Here in Detroit, the worst of what many of us have long suspected about Gov. Snyder’s intentions toward our city...
Obama Outsmarts Republicans With Planned Executive Action To Raise Wages For Millions
President Obama has outsmarted Congressional Republican obstructionists with a planned executive action that will raise the wages of millions of...
The Koch Brothers Have Picked Scott Walker To Be Their 2016 Presidential Puppet
The Koch’s didn’t say why Jeb Bush isn’t their “chosen one,” but odds are that it is because Bush doesn’t...
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback Is Stealing From Taxpayers To Enrich Banks
It is beyond refute that Republicans have devised some truly cruel means of stealing from taxpayers and the poor to...
Bernie Sanders Calls For A Mobilization Of Millions Of Americans To Take Down The Kochs
Unless the American people mobilize and stand up to billionaires, like the Koch brothers, no Democratic president can succeed with...
