In red states as well as blue, voters passed ballot initiatives to tax the rich, fund long term care, and provide paid leave.
The evidence is stark. CEOs of leading U.S. corporations are focused on short-term windfalls for themselves and wealthy shareholders rather than on long-term prosperity for their workers—or their companies.
Congress should use taxes to generate new revenue from Wall Street firms and executives and to curb excessive CEO pay, unproductive short-term financial speculation, and wasteful stock buybacks.
With more than 100 members, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has a track record of pushing the policy debate towards bold solutions.
Politicians pay next to no attention to the concerns of 85 million low-income Americans. Advocates want to change that — and maybe the next election, too.
Reason and common sense are guiding decisions again as the school board turns to teachers and administrators – not right-wing Christian groups or Moms for Liberty – to regulate classrooms and school policy.
Patel has vowed to sever the FBI’s intelligence-gathering activities from the rest of its mission and said he would “shut down” the bureau’s headquarters building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., and “reopen it the next day as a museum of the ‘deep state.’”
Editor Cyril Mychalejko speaks with Noll, co-author with Jon Michaels of the new book “VIGILANTE NATION: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy.”
It’s not because physically providing adequate housing is all that tough, but because dedicating the resources necessary to care for our neighbors has proven damned near impossible, writes Pat LaMarche.
