We see the headlines every year, particularly now, around the holidays.
Hunger.
In the richest country in world history--where Congress pays corporations to keep their workforces poor, where wealthy tax cheats benefit more from coronavirus pandemic relief...
Wealthy corporations love it when average people do the corporations' dirty work.
All across the country, right-wing donors are using their money the Supreme Court has determined equals "free speech" to convince angry white Republicans "those...
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...
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...
The redder the state, the shorter the life.
That is the argument economist Paul Krugman lays out in a December 2 New York Times column in which he debunks the typical right-wing claim the United States is...
Whenever Democrats propose policies to make college more affordable or to provide healthcare as a human right, there’s always someone bound to ask, “How do we pay for it?”
The mainstream (so-called “liberal”) media is one of the...
Then they came for the homeless.
Under the guise of "environmental violation"--citing needles and waste--the Trump administration has threatened to use police to remove the homeless.
Last month, Trump told a pool reporter aboard Air Force One...
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...
Nothing will escape climate change's ravages.
International borders, economies, food and water supplies, health, education, transportation, energy sources, are all predicted to change with the climate as the planet warms faster than scientists predicted.
Another casualty we can...
Conservatives love to blame 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 and talking heads...
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...
One of the reasons (and there are several) Donald Trump won the White House was his promise not to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
This made him very popular among his base, many of whom...
There is no shortage of critics of the Republican "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act;" i.e., the tax bill that hands $1.5 trillion in permanent tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy like President Trump and his ilk.
Even Sen. Marco...
Last week, the World Inequality Lab released its first report based on the World Wealth and Income Database (WID). Constructed in part by famous economist Thomas Piketty, the report released at the Paris School of Economics....
3 Charts That Show Exactly How The GOP Tax Bill Will Affect You (Hint: It’s Bad)
Tiffany Willis Clark
Republicans in the House and Senate have insisted that their final tax bill will help middle class Americans. We TOTALLY believed them (sarcasm). Finally, though, we have the actual data -- supplied by the Senate...
Amid Roy Moore's defeat and Donald Trump's harassing tweets, let's not forget Republicans are still trying to pass a $1.5 trillion tax bill that would create the most significant revision of our tax code in decades.
Alabama...
"You say you want a revolution?"
Well, it might not be far off.
That is according to a study published in Nature tracing characteristics of history's most consequential revolutions.
Using a rubric called the Gini coefficient, scientists from Washington State University and...
Amid the glaring problems with the Republicans' rewrite of our tax code, there is another issue that should concern us--time.
Is there enough of it to allow America to adjust to the changes since several provisions in...