Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Elected officials are calling faith leaders and social workers to Capitol Hill to talk about how the U.S. might begin helping the poor. It’s true: House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY) is bringing leaders from the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Francine Jefferson of Tchula, Mississippi, prefaced her question to former Vice President Joe Biden, explaining that her hometown, in the poorest county in America, has experienced devastating flooding with little support from the federal...
A bill proposed by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) would seize billions of dollars from drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to pay for President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. … Read the full article at ThinkProgress.
American officials want two Chinese nationals arrested for allegedly manufacturing and importing large quantities of fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid that is driving the U.S. overdose epidemic that began in the 2000s to the explosive levels of fatalities...
In Indiana, there are just 70 estates large enough – worth more than $5.5 million for an individual or $11 million for a married couple – to pay even a penny of estate tax next year, according to the IRS figures. Yet that’s where Trump has gone to peddle the venerable...
New Census Bureau data shows an increasingly optimistic picture for white Americans — but far less so for Americans of color, many of whom still face stark income disparities. Released Tuesday, the numbers appear to show good news across the board in several key...
American officials want two Chinese nationals arrested for allegedly manufacturing and importing large quantities of fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid that is driving the U.S. overdose epidemic that began in the 2000s to the explosive levels of fatalities...
International drug cartels are only able to impose violent chaos on the Western hemisphere because Americans’ demand for narcotics is so high, DHS head John Kelly told NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday. “Drug consumption in the United States is the problem,” Kelly said....
Marijuana is still illegal under federal law, and hundreds of thousands of people are arrested every year for smoking, growing, or selling the drug. But over the past eight years, President Obama has commuted the sentencesof hundreds of nonviolent drug offenders...
Could the global warming crisis be solved if fossil fuel executives were just paid less? Well, sort of. A new study points out that not only do executives of the 30 largest fossil fuel companies make more than comparable CEOs, the system of buybacks, stock...
