Federal minimum wage stagnant for 3,615 days, a ‘shameful’ period in history
"I've been criticized for this so let me say it again: the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr is a starvation wage. Every worker deserves a living wage of at least $15 an hour."
Senators probe Equifax over plans to profit from Medicaid and SNAP work requirements
Warren, Wyden, and Sanders are demanding disclosures from Equifax as new federal work requirements threaten to strip healthcare and food assistance from millions while expanding the company’s already dominant income verification business.
Eco-collapse hasn’t happened yet, but you can see it coming
And no excuses, okay? We’ve been given fair warning.
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, September 12
Energy Transfer pipeline explodes in Pennsylvania, Trump calls Puerto Rico an 'unsung success', the fight against world hunger, and more.
‘That’s not who we are?’ Well, you are what you do, your actions speak...
These attacks on sovereign nations are, without question, illegal, unjustifiable and a stain on America’s reputation. Is that who we are?
Trump’s double standard on freedom of speech
The president wants liberties for himself that he doesn’t grant to others.
Before becoming Trump’s top energy aide, Mike Catanzaro peddled climate change denial as a...
“Tapping Mr. Catanzaro as a White House energy advisor fits with President Trump’s agenda of promoting the interests of fossil fuel industry over the environment and public health.”
Planting Fear Into the American Mind
It seems, in order to pass a certain agenda, modern time presidents will use the idea of fear. Keeping U.S. citizens afraid of terrorism and other countries have let aggressive military policy become justified.
Backers of endless war deplore that many Trump supporters favor using violence
Are some of Trump’s true believers are eager to adapt the violent precepts of perpetual war to American politics?
McCarthyism, then and now
When it comes to this era’s McCarthyism, don’t for a moment think that the debt ceiling is the only ceiling that could end up in the dust of history.