Tag: working class
Sanders says AOC would be a ‘formidable’ 2028 presidential candidate amid...
In new remarks on The Axios Show, Bernie Sanders praises Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s political gifts, points to a growing progressive bench, and calls for “a little bit of forgiveness” in national politics.
Tlaib and Sanders push bill to tax excessive CEO pay
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Rashida Tlaib unveiled legislation that would impose higher taxes on corporations paying executives more than 50 times their workers, citing billion-dollar gaps at firms like Walmart, Starbucks, and Tesla.
‘Financial insecurity runs deep’: Americans blame Trump economy for rising hardship
New polling and data reveal deepening financial strain across the U.S. under Trump’s second term, with many blaming corporate power, deregulation, and GOP-backed policies for rising prices and declining economic security.
Republican budget shifts wealth to the top as workers pay the...
New congressional analysis reveals massive tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans while working families shoulder cuts, tariffs, and rising costs under GOP economic plans.
GOP tax cuts for the rich advance as Republicans push record-breaking...
As House Republicans approve tax breaks for the wealthy, they simultaneously move to gut Medicaid and food assistance, rejecting all amendments to protect vulnerable Americans.
Patriotic Millionaires challenge oligarch power with sweeping economic plan
As economic inequality worsens and public frustration grows, a coalition of wealthy Americans offers a radical legislative blueprint to dismantle the grip of the ultra-rich on democracy.
China retaliates against Trump tariffs with sweeping countermeasures as global markets...
Beijing responds to Trump’s aggressive new tariffs with 34% duties on all U.S. goods, rare-earth export controls, and sanctions on U.S. firms, signaling a major escalation in the global trade war
Trump’s inaugural address criticized for ignoring key issues facing working families
President Trump’s lack of focus on healthcare, housing, and income inequality sparks backlash from Senator Bernie Sanders.
Why are young working-class men more ‘conservative’?
It’s not just about women’s increasing power and independence—it’s about capitalism failing us all.
UAW denounces Trump-Vance ticket as “menace to working class” amid threats...
The UAW warns that the Trump-Vance ticket threatens Michigan’s economic future by jeopardizing a $500 million federal grant for an electric vehicle plant, while highlighting the Biden-Harris administration’s investment in American manufacturing and union jobs.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.