Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders stated findings in a recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report indicate the Democratic party has a clear shot at bypassing Senate Republican obstruction in order to raise the federal...
We have been told time and again that private industry is the engine driving innovation and the economy. While to an extent this is true, we must not forget corporations' number-one priority is to maximize profits. If...
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden proclaimed “nothing would fundamentally change.” This made many, particularly progressives that ultimately helped get Biden elected, understandably nervous. Then Biden released the most progressive climate and economic plan of any Democratic nominee in...
After Joe Biden was elected, South Dakota Sen. John Thune said: “The one thing that concerns me that nobody seems to be talking about anymore is the massive amount of debt that we continue to rack...
We've been stuck at home a lot this year. Maybe you've been working at your Netflix list. Perhaps you've discovered The Mandalorian on Disney+. Quarantines, lockdowns, and general anxiety about going out in public have been boons to streaming media companies. So...
Responding to pressure from environmental groups, New York has become the first state to divest its massive public pension fund from fossil fuel companies. Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced Wednesday the Empire state will begin transitioning $226...
12 million workers are set to lose federal unemployment benefits the day after Christmas if Republican lawmakers continue withholding funding for federal COVID-19 relief programs, threatening workers with evictions, student loan bills, and other expenses as the pandemic ramps up...
Your taxes are about to go up. But it isn't because Joe Biden was elected president. Three years ago, almost to the day, when the Republican party held in the majority in both congressional chambers, Donald Trump...
Do you know anyone who might have donated to the "Donald J. Trump Election Defense Fund"? Well, it probably won't make any difference, but you might want to have a talk with him or her about...
12 million workers are set to lose federal unemployment benefits the day after Christmas if Republican lawmakers continue withholding funding for federal COVID-19 relief programs, according to a new Century Foundation report. The study's authors, Andrew...
Republicans have perfected the rhetoric of blaming our economic woes on social safety nets, specifically Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), aka “food stamps.” They have convinced large swaths of supporters...
One day before being released from Walter Reed Naval Hospital for treatment for COVID-19, Donald Trump stated in a video he "learned a lot about Covid,” adding: "I learned it by really going to school. This...
Believe it or not, there was a time when giant corporate behemoths like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple simply would not be able to exist. In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed the Sherman Antitrust Act into...
It is unknown what post-COVID education will look like in America. Yet in a month colleges and universities are expected to begin their fall semesters. Harvard University has already decided to move all classes online. Yale is doing...
The good news: House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve another $484 billion emergency relief package. The bad news: Most of that amount--$310 billion--will be put toward replenishing the small business loan Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). That...
The Republican party talks a lot about "freedom," "choice," and "independence." When we peel back the rhetoric and focus on policy, though, we understand in its starkest form that Democracy is the GOP's Achilles' heel. It could...
There is no shortage of encouragement and benevolence all around us during this global pandemic. People get it we are all in this together. No one embodies this sentiment more than those on the front line, like...
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is this generation's smallpox. It's our 1918 influenza pandemic. Considering our financial infrastructure was already failing before the pandemic reached our shores, the sudden upset to businesses, medical facilities, education, transportation, employment--society at large--are...
One thing the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is going to demonstrate is how this country will respond to economic strain. European stock shares dropped more than 8% Monday. Despite Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell dropping interest rates to near...
While it's true housing discrimination did not originate with Donald Trump, it is true that, as president, the housing policies he has advanced through the office of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) headed by Ben...