Tag: debt
Majority of Americans favor federal action to relieve medical debt amid...
New poll reveals strong support for medical debt relief across the U.S., highlighting a significant burden on millions of Americans and sparking renewed calls for legislative action.
Activists arrested in Capitol Hill protest urging Biden to cancel student...
The Debt Collective’s protest underscores the urgent need for student debt relief and a reevaluation of U.S. military spending.
Debt forgiveness in the Bronze Age
Whether in the realms of trade or agriculture, the operative principle was that debtors should not lose their economic liberty by being held liable for “acts of God.”
Your employer can now match your student loan repayments as 401(k)...
When someone makes a student loan payment, their employer can contribute that same amount of money to the employee’s retirement plan under Section 110 of a federal law known as the SECURE Act 2.0.
Among the GOP’s debt ceiling hostages? Social Security payments for oldest...
"The choice facing the executive branch is clear: Act or default; act or increase the suffering of millions; act or go into economic tailspin."
‘MAGA economic sabotage’: 217 House Republicans pass debt ceiling bill with...
"Republicans just passed a bill that would kill jobs, take away federal benefits for millions, and make everyday life for Americans more expensive. This is completely unworkable."
We can do so much more on student loan forgiveness
The administration still has time to take real action on student loan debt, but they need to get moving.
“Debt shaming” has dampened democracy
As crucial steps to reduce income inequality, we need to reject “debt shaming” and insist on cancelation of student debt.
Oil drilling in Greece? This is what the high cost of...
A reprieve from debt – at an excessive price.
Student debt reaches more than $1 trillion – an all-time high
"We are crushing the next generation with debt."
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.