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Does Marijuana Stand A Chance With The New DEA Chief?
Pot is gaining acceptance legally and across society, but don’t expect the Drug Enforcement Administration to change when President Donald Trump announces his choice to run the agency, experts say. The…
Franchising Can Deepen Opportunities in Black Cities
Good news just in from the U.S. Census Bureau – minority incomes are up. In fact, African-American and Hispanic households saw more than double the median income growth of their white counterparts…
In Discussing the “Middle Class,” Don’t Forget the Racial Wealth Divide
Janine Jackson: The lead of the Washington Post story reads: The incomes of middle-class Americans rose last year to the highest level ever recorded by the Census Bureau, as poverty declined and…
Average CEO has to make do with $253,088 in monthly pension payments
In 1998, about half of all private-sector employers in the United States offered newly hired workers a defined-benefit pension for their retirement. By 2015, that percentage dropped to just 5%, according…
How the NFL was sparked to social transformation
Having spent 50-plus years working to use the power of sports to bring about positive social change, I found Sunday to be the most important sports day since Muhammad Ali…
Can Trump’s corporate tax cuts help the middle class?
Taxes may be inevitable, but how businesses and workers react to the tax code isn’t always predictable. Take President Donald Trump’s pledge this week to cut corporate taxes to 15 percent…
Hezbollah’s Victory Over ISIS Undermined as US Bombs Evacuation Route
SHARMINI PERIES: It’s The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore. After intense fighting between the Lebanese army, Lebanese Hezbollah, and the Syrian military against ISIS…
The trouble with Trump’s populist tax-reform pitch
The Republican push to sell the public on tax reform kicked into a higher gear Wednesday, as President Trump gave a speech at a manufacturing company in Springfield, Missouri, promoting…
On this Labor Day, Trump honors. . . .management
President Trump is cheerleading for corporate tax cuts as part of his effort to make America grate, asserting that tax relief would encourage businesses to invest, expand, hire, and boost…
Afghanistan Has Always Been a Failed and Failing War
Janine Jackson: On August 21, Donald Trump gave what one Washington Post writer called a “muscular speech” on his plans for the US’s long war in Afghanistan. Corporate media were critical of the…
Labor Day is Over, Postpartum Depression Sets In
We made it through the Holiday that marks the end of the Summer of Trump (like the Summer of Love, but with a lot more Hate) and now we are stuck with…
Trump’s ‘Tax Reform’ Is Just Another Bailout for the Rich
On Wednesday, Donald Trump gave a speech on “tax reform,” which is something he wants. He did not say exactly what tax reform would actually look like, other than a…
Trump’s tax-reform pitch is entirely divorced from reality
Having failed in their attempt to strip millions of health insurance by repealing Obamacare, President Trump and the Republican Congress are moving to their biggest priority: tax cuts for corporations…
There’s little evidence that corporate tax cuts create jobs
When President Donald Trump travels to Springfield, Missouri, on Wednesday to stump for tax reform, he’ll rely on a well-worn argument that giving businesses a tax break will create more…
Corporate Tax Cuts Don’t Mean More Jobs
A just-released report by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) — a DC think tank providing analysis on peace and economic, racial, and climate justice — provides evidence that tax…
As Trump Begins Tax Reform Push, Critics Rip Plan as Fact-Free, Trickle-Down ‘Scam’
As President Donald Trump kicked off his aggressive, Koch brothers-backed tax “reform” push with a speech in Missouri on Wednesday, progressive advocacy groups and policy analysts argued that the president’s…
Corporate Tax Cuts Promote CEO Pay Raises and Stock Buybacks, Not Jobs
Corporate tax cuts would be a major windfall for American corporations. For American workers, perhaps not so much. President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers will focus their efforts on crafting…
Trump Says A Corporate Tax Cut Would Create More Jobs
President Trump is slated to land in Missouri on Wednesday to give a much-awaited speech about his plans for tax reform, the next target on his legislative agenda. The reduction,…
Corporate Tax Cuts Don’t Create Jobs, They Enrich CEOs
President Trump, after a summer of neglecting his top legislative priority, will make a full-throated pitch for tax reform today in Missouri. The still-fuzzy plan will have a lot of…
#PayUpCorps Campaign Highlights All Nation Could Do If Corporations Paid Their Fair Share
A progressive think tank was joined by hundreds of supporters Thursday in a Twitter campaign demanding that corporations pay a fair tax rate. A day after President Donald Trump touted…
Blunt references to Israeli apartheid are published by ‘Peace Now’ and ‘The New Yorker’
Eleven years ago Jimmy Carter had the temerity to put the word “apartheid” in the subtitle of his book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, and he paid the price. The former…
Opinion: The deep, deep cynicism of ‘tax reform’
In a speech in Missouri later today, President Trump will attempt to relaunch his administration’s tax-reform crusade. If you believe what he says, his plan will be the bestest, biggest,…
Daily Reads: As Harvey’s Death Toll Rises, Trump Touts Plan to Slash His Own Taxes
Not over yet –> As Houston began to recover from Hurricane Harvey, the storm made landfall again on Wednesday, dumping as much as two feet of rain on smaller towns near…
This Innocent Photo of Paul Ryan Reveals Why the Trump Tax Plan Is Doomed
Paul Ryan, speaker of the House and the conservative movement’s intellectual darling, recently paid a visit to a Boeing plant in Everett, Washington. Everett is a medium-sized, working-class city just…
Trump’s corporate tax plan will probably not create a job boom, report finds
Donald Trump’s plans to reduce the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20% will are unlikely to create the promised boom in jobs, according to a new report from the…
54 Years After the March on Washington, We’re Far From Racial Pay Equity
Fifty-four years ago this week, on Aug. 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands of people gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The event marked a turning point…
Trump has a corporate tax plan. Economists have some questions.
President Trump’s much-awaited speech about his plans for tax reform has fired up the debate about who really wins when taxes are slashed. The president has previously proposed cutting the…
Here Are 4 Populist Tax Reforms Trump Could Adopt If He Really Cared About Working People
To hear President Donald Trump tell it, the United States’ tax burden is a major impediment to economic growth. In a speech in Springfield, Missouri, on Wednesday, Trump framed his…
Trump Has Bashed Obama’s Actions in Iraq. But He’s Actually No Better
During his bid for the presidency, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly bragged about his brilliant “secret plan” to wipe out ISIS — a plan that, if it even existed, critics were…
Fran works six days a week in fast food, and yet she’s homeless: ‘It’s economic slavery’
Once a customer has barked their order into the microphone at the Popeyes drive-thru on Prospect Avenue, Kansas City, the clock starts. Staff have a company-mandated 180 seconds to take…
