Scott Walker To Cut $300 Million From Universities, Spend $500 Million On A Pro Basketball Stadium
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) will unveil a budget Tuesday night that aims to slash hundreds of millions of dollars...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) will unveil a budget Tuesday night that aims to slash hundreds of millions of dollars...
Governor Christie, originally touted by the press as the “moderate” candidate in the GOP field, is desperately trying to stay...
Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was a featured speaker at the United Steel Workers 2011 conference in Las Vegas....
President Obama released a fiery statement that called out Gov. Scott Walker for weakening the middle-class and after he signed...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The industrial conglomerate run by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch is refusing to provide Democratic...
All our lives, we have been told that free markets are synonymous with free societies. That neoliberal capitalism is consistent...
Following a heated, all-night debate between lawmakers in Madison, the Wisconsin state assembly passed right-to-work legislation on Friday morning, sending...
A map released by the San Francisco-based International Forum on Globalization (IFG) shows that the U.S. billionaire Koch brothers own...
There’s a bill parked in the House Ways & Means Committee called the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Extension Act...
Gov. Scott Walker insulted millions of Democrats and Republicans who belong to unions today by comparing unions to ISIS during...
In two separate statements, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) praised the passage of the FCC’s new...
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has declared war on workers and their unions—and, by extension, on fair wages and the prospects...
A network of Republican lawmakers and their rightwing corporate funders are battling behind closed doors to block minimum wage increases...
There are a bunch of great things about solar. Socio-economically, one of those things is that people on all sides...
For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of...
A study recently released by the Pell Institute for the Study of Higher Education shows that not only is the...
Last year the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a detailed analysis of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that projected it...
It is probably true that most Americans do not begrudge other Americans reaping the benefits of hard work whether it...
Watchdog organizations Common Cause and the Center for Media and Democracy jointly filed a public records request today seeking details...
Bruce Rauner’s campaign for governor of Illinois hit a rough spot when it was revealed that he was talking about...
Taking a page out of his brother George W. Bush’s playbook, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is trying to run as a...
On Friday, the Republican-controlled Wyoming Senate voted 19-11 to reject Medicaid expansion, which would have extended health care coverage to over...
John Roberts is entering the stretch run of his tenth term as chief justice of the United States. In-depth assessments...
The country is full of examples illustrating the failure of Republican economic policies. Scott Walker’s Wisconsin and Sam Brownback’s Kansas have become...
Forty years ago the owners of Milwaukee’s meat packing plants launched a war on unions. Milwaukee’s working class is still...
The House has voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act 239-186, but House Republicans didn’t just vote to repeal Obamacare....
Unlike some current Republican politicians, Ronald Reagan knew better than to try to destroy Social Security. A new book makes...
Bill Maher calls out Republicans who feign concern for the middle-class by giving them a history lesson on where the...
Charles and David Koch plan to spend as much as one billion in 2016 in an attempt to capture the...
Instead of their usual diatribe about class warfare, or denying the existence of inequality, Republican leaders are suddenly talking up...
Nearly every week there is some major conference on the subject of inequality. They are often led by prominent people,...
Recently, Congress has passed measures to weaken regulations in Dodd-Frank that are intended to reduce the risk of another financial...
The U. S. government denied bitcoin entrepreneur Roger Ver a visa last week, reported Coin Desk. Ver renounced his American...
Despite the state of Kansas facing bankruptcy and a billion dollar deficit due to monumental tax cuts for the rich...
House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes, and could not come up with...
President Obama has proposed a right to paid sick leave for all workers in this country. Family economic security is...
Senate Democrats are angry because Mitch McConnell ended debate on the Keystone XL bill so that Republicans could attend a...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) unveiled several new proposals, including a call to raise the minimum wage to $11.50...
Newly-elected Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) gave the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address, perhaps providing further...
Republicans have accused President Obama of waging class warfare for using his State of the Union to push for an...
The GOP has a fresh strategy to attack Social Security: pitting older Americans against people with disabilities. The Social Security...
Forget lobbyists. When big corporations want to wield influence, they often put far more of their money into advertising and...
By next year, the richest one percent will have accumulated more than half of the world’s wealth. A new report...
In a sharp departure from party leaders’ proposals over the last few years, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) today announced...
Democrats appear to have learned some lessons from their 2014 mid-term whipping. Numerous analysts said the lack of a coherent...
Thom Hartmann and Brendan Fischer discuss the war waged by ALEC, the Kochs, and the Waltons against the ability for...