Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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Protest to House Budget Committee: \’Kill the Bill Before It Kills Us\’
As the House Budget Committee voted to make health care more expensive and less accessible for millions of Americans, activists gathered outside the hearing room to make sure Congress saw their opposition.
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Trumpcare Is Wrong For You. It\’s A Toxic Prescription For Health Care
The House Republican health care plan unveiled Monday cuts taxes for the wealthy and corporations, gives consumers paltry tax credits to deal with rising costs, and will force many people to forgo needed care.
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The Racism of \’The Least Racist Person\’ in Trump\’s Speech to Congress
Trump\’s speech to Congress contained a level of racial exploitation and manipulation unprecedented in recent presidential history. It started with his very first words.
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The Trump Infrastructure Plan Won\’t Bridge the Nation\’s Job Gap
A new People\’s Action Institute report on the nation\’s \”job gap\” explains why if the goals are good jobs, boosting communities left behind by the economic recovery and slowing climate change, the Trump infrastructure plan is wrong.
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Organizing and Persistence Pays Off in N.J. for Hurricane Sandy Victims
Gov. Chris Christie\’s signing of a foreclosure relief bill that he had vetoed a version of last year was the culmination of work done by the People\’s Action affiliate New Jersey Organizing Project.
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The Push to Get Disney CEO Bob Iger Off Trump\’s Economic Council
People\’s Action is collecting signatures on a petition, to be delivered to Disney\’s headquarters on Tuesday, designed to persuade Iger to follow the lead of Uber\’s CEO and leave the economic advisory council.
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As the Trump Train Derails, We Must Keep Up the Pressure
Trump’s fake economic populism is laying the groundwork for greater corporate control over our lives and replacing the war on poverty with a war on the poor. We must keep up the pressure.
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Millions of Reasons – Plus One Big One – To Block Tom Price\’s Nomination
People\’s Action has launched a petition to block the nomination of Tom Price as Health and Human Services secretary, after hearing from hundreds of people who would be harmed by the health care law repeal Price favors.
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Two Congressmen Nail The Problem With The Jeff Sessions Makeover
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Georgia Rep. John Lewis on Wednesday made sure that the Senate and the country was not distracted by the makeover that the attorney general nominee presented to the country this week.
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The Catastrophic Oil Spill in Trump\’s Cabinet
With the nomination of Exxon-Mobil\’s CEO and an Energy Transfer Partners board member to Cabinet posts, Donald Trump has added to the swamp he pledged to clean two corporate alligators who will put the planet in peril.