Tag: economy

Immigration reform cannot be separated from labor and trade reform. We can't fix the former without dealing with the other two.

Since our “leaders” seem incapable, we will need to lead ourselves, it appears. This is our democracy and we want it back.

Schools in low-income communities in many states don’t have the resources to give students access to opportunities that are available in wealthier areas.

It takes serious mental gymnastics to argue that Trump’s tax agenda would benefit the average working Joe or Jane.

Trump, who campaigned promising to “drain the swamp” in Washington, has filled his administration with the very swamp creatures his voters hated.

While national outrage is focused on Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts, tiny agencies helping communities that teeter on the edge of poverty would also disappear.

Big-money speculators are buying up farms, charging tenants to farm it, and boxing young, real farmers out of the market.

Trump seems utterly ignorant about global competition – and about what’s really holding back American workers.

Activists today are exploring encouraging pathways to a New Economy that sustains both our planet and greater equality.

“The president is now sending his emissaries, his sons, out to line his own pockets, and he’s subsidizing that activity with taxpayer dollars.”