Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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Keys to Winning the Argument For the Iran Nuclear Deal
\”If you have political connections, now is the time to use them,\” says Joe Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund, as he talks about how to push back against a multimillion-dollar effort to block the Iran agreement.
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Will Black Lives Matter At the Republican Presidential Debate?
A new generation of activists have sharpened the view of the threshold candidates must cross to earn the vote of African Americans, and once again Republican candidates are showing themselves incapable of rising to the challenge.
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56 Organizations Unite In Opposition To Schumer Corporate Tax Plan
\”The proposal appears to fail two principles of corporate tax reform,\” says a letter authored by Americans for Tax Fairness: It would not increase revenue and it would encourage more shifting of jobs and profits offshore.
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Congress\’ Transportation Stall Is Our Chance to Mobilize
This time short-term congressional paralysis offers the chance to prevent a long-term disaster. Progressives gets three months to break the momentum of a corporate tax giveaway and get a better transportation bill.
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The Norquist Roadblock Leads To a Social Security Raid
When did it become OK to use savings from the Social Security trust fund – which people have paid into with their payroll taxes – to pay for transportation projects? To avoid the ire of Grover Norquist.
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Workers In The Sharing Economy Need Shared Security
Venture capitalist Nick Hanauer has proposed a way for workers in the \”gig economy\” to have such benefits as a living wage, health insurance, paid vacations and sick leave, and retirement savings.
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Signs That Transportation Bill Is Moving In the Wrong Direction
Unless progressives amp up the pressure over the next few weeks, we\’re highly likely to end up with a bill that not only doesn\’t meet all of our needs but covers its cost in horrendous ways.
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Reaction to Greece Austerity Deal: \”#ThisIsACoup\”
The deal that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has reached with European Union leaders seems less a bailout of Greece\’s economy and more of a prelude to an overthrow of the leftist Syrzia majority running the country.
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Schumer Takes the Low Road to Fund a Transportation Bill
Democrats should be championing tax reforms that call on multinational corporations to pay more, not less, of their profits toward the infrastructure and services that support their profit-making.
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Do Voters Back White House Plan For Highway Funding? Don\’t Be So Sure
If the goal was to determine if voters back \”the White House plan\” for highway funding through corporate tax relief, the pollsters didn\’t ask the right question. Here\’s what they should have asked.