Tag: austerity
Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering...
New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.
House Republicans advance massive budget bill with Medicaid cuts and tax...
GOP lawmakers pushed a sweeping bill forward in a rare Sunday vote after cutting a backroom deal with far-right Republicans to fast-track deeper Medicaid cuts and slash food aid—while offering permanent tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
Trump administration resumes student loan collections, threatening millions with garnished wages...
Restarting federal loan garnishments and ending relief programs, the Trump administration advances a sweeping overhaul that critics say punishes struggling borrowers and deepens a national crisis.
Republicans look to give themselves a pay raise after securing benefit...
"House Republicans are moving to give themselves a raise while taking an ax to education, health, and other essential programs that help grow the economy by growing the middle class."
How austerity and anti-immigrant politics left Italy exposed
Austerity and an anti-immigrant blockade left Italy with an older population and underfunded health care. Could the same happen here?
The most dangerous decade: 2018-2028
Without great restraint, diplomacy, wisdom and compromises, we will be sleepwalking into a nuclear disaster in the next decade.
A regime of austerity versus the common good
Today's Powers that Be (economic, political and media) are wrongly forcing a regime of austerity on our nation.
This is what austerity looks like
It is growing insecurity that drives fear, and the elites’ use that fear to divide us against each other.
Could Flint Fiasco Poison Austerity As Stupid, Wasteful & Cruel?
In severity of health damage, media staying power, and political indefensibility, the Flint, MI lead poisoning looms as a national turning point. What disgrace better spotlights Republican government poisoning one hundred thousand of its own people -- failed austerity at its worst? Rarely does stupid and wasteful, if not immoral, merge so dramatically.
The Austerity Vaccine
How complementary currencies can change how we think about money and community as well as inoculate our communities against the fiscal austerity.