Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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Conservative Solution For Puerto Ricans In Pain Is More Pain
House Republicans proposed addressing Puerto Rico\’s debt crisis by cutting the pensions of retirees and cutting the pay of low-wage workers – to protect wealthy bondholders who gambled on the island\’s finances.
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Questionable Assumptions Behind Critiques of Sanders\’ Economic Plan
Two reports reinforce one of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton\’s chief attack lines against competitor Bernie Sanders: that his \”numbers don\’t add up\” and that he is making promises \”that cannot be kept.\”
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Finally, Justice For Consumers Wronged By Banks Is Within Reach
A new regulation proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau restores the right of banking and credit card customers to have their day in court and hold companies accountable for their wrongdoing.
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Kansas Republicans Again Stab Workers, And Democracy, In The Back
A bill just passed by the extreme conservative Kansas legislature prevents municipalities from clamping down on just-in-time work scheduling abuses by companies. It\’s a sign of an accelerating trend.
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How Dennis Hastert Also Molested Our Democracy
The \”Hastert rule\” has been used to subvert the majority will of the people\’s representatives time and again – and that\’s just one of the ways a veteran House staffer says Dennis Hastert perverted the functioning of House.
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Sanders Didn\’t Start The Fire, So Don\’t Ask Him To Put It Out
Bernie Sanders is not the match that lit a progressive populist flame. The match was the unrest with Democratic Party politics that revealed itself long before he \”felt the Bern\” himself.
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An Economy Like It\’s 1999
Remembering the artist Prince and one of his greatest hits, \”1999,\” got us thinking: 1999 was actually a pretty good year for the U.S. economy. Is it too much to ask that we emulate what we got right back then?
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Elizabeth Warren Takes On TurboTax (And Its Fellow Scavengers)
The Massachusetts senator takes on tax preparation services that make a lot of money off of complicated tax forms and don\’t want the Internal Revenue Service to implement a law that would make tax filing simpler.
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No Budget Debate on the House Floor, So Let\’s Take It To The Streets
House Republicans have proven themselves incapable of bringing even their own budget to a floor vote. But there is still reason to get members of Congress to declare their support for the People\’s Budget.
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Fight for $15 Movement Confronts The Presidential Candidates
In New York, before the Democratic candidates get to their debate and the Republican candidates get to a major fundraiser, they have to get past the nationwide demonstrations of the Fight for $15 movement.