Negotiations began this week for another coronavirus economic relief package, anticipated to be the last before the general election in the fall. This follows the initial Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the bipartisan...
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...
Former Democratic presidential candidate--now CNN political commentator--Andrew Yang had a unique signature issue among the other presidential contenders with whom he shared the stage. He wanted to give every American $1,000 from what he called the "Freedom Dividend." But...
Some use crises to enrich themselves, like Senators Jim Inhofe, Richard Burr, Ron Johnson, Kelly Loeffler, and Diane Feinstein were discovered last week to have been doing. Some, however, seize opportunities crises present to usher in structural...
Raising the minimum wage will not just help the economy. It will not just help lift people out of poverty or prevent some from descending into it. According to a Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health study, raising the...
Donald Trump has again managed to capture the news cycle by bringing us to the brink of World War III. While the media is focused on the dangerous distraction Trump is using Iran to create, it...
Just after election day in 2016, Donald Trump stated in a 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl he planned on refusing the $400,000 presidential salary. He claimed he didn't even know what the salary is, and conceded,...
His looming impeachment is arguably the least of Donald Trump's problems. Once he's out of the White House, he must contend with a fraudulent financial situation that could land him in prison. On Tuesday, the New York-based...
The walls are closing in on Donald Trump. Not only is the impeachment inquiry moving so swiftly House Democrats anticipate an impeachment vote by Christmas. Last week Trump was dealt another blow when New York Supreme Court...
Donald Trump is moving. No, not out of the White House. Not yet.  (It's coming.) Like millions of septuagenarians, he's relocating to Florida because New York is just too damn expensive. According to documents filed with the Palm Beach...
U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim handed down a contempt of court ruling for United States Education Department Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday. Earlier this month, Kim ordered a lawsuit to go “full-steam ahead” after the DeVos-led Education...
How much more than you does your boss make? That all depends, of course, on many factors: whether your job is unionized, the industry you're in, whether you work in the public or the private sector. Chances...
Then they came for the documented immigrants. A frequent rebuttal one receives from Republicans when they're confronted with questions about Donald Trump's war on immigrants is "They should come here legally." This is, of course, a reductive...
Donald Trump has claimed Democrats are “getting nothing done in Congress.”  This, like the other 10,000 he has told, is a lie. Something that frequently gets lost in the morass of mainstream talking points is that Democrats...
Whenever Democrats propose policies to make college more affordable or to provide healthcare to all as a human right, there's always (always!) someone asking, "How do we pay for it?" The mainstream (so-called "liberal") media is...
After all the murders he either committed or was at least behind, after all the bootleg liquor he smuggled, the money he extorted, the prostitution rings he had a hand in, it was tax evasion...
We are due for an economic downturn. Of course that's inevitable in our economy. Republicans that held the majority in Congress the past several years have successfully rolled back reforms passed after the 2008 recession meant to stop big...
Remember just before the end of 2017 when Donald Trump signed into law the Republican “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act?” Trump claimed he and lawmakers “reached an agreement on tax legislation that will deliver more jobs, higher wages...
When speaking to reporters last week about the historic and deadly Camp and Woolsey fires that have destroyed more than 100,000 acres and taken at least 44 lives, California Gov. Jerry Brown stated Californians--and the rest of the world--are facing a...
So, that's it. Poverty in the United States is finally history. At least that's what the Trump administration boasted last week. In a report published Thursday, the White House Council of Economic Advisers stated: “Based on historical standards of material wellbeing  and...