It’s time to return to the kind of bottom-up struggle that helped establish modern public health in the first place.
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Trump Is Trying to Dismantle Public Health — and Replace It With a Police State Read Post »
Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.
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Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse. Read Post »
It is apparently not enough for America’s anti-tax crusaders that Congress just passed one of the most expensive and regressive tax bills in our history. The Washington Post reports that Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform and other conservative groups are now urging the Trump administration to change how investment profits are taxed—unilaterally, if need […]
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The Big Bad Republican Bill Wasn’t Regressive Enough for the Anti-Tax Crusaders Read Post »
Connecticut’s “Head Start on Housing” program could serve as a blueprint for other states nationwide.
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Connecticut Pilots a Better Way for Unhoused Kids and Caregivers to Access Homes Read Post »
A GOP court challenge could lead to the biggest erosion in campaign spending limitations since “Citizens United.”
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A New Supreme Court Case Could Give the Wealthy Even More Political Power Read Post »
AI in schools isn’t progress — it’s a sign of how far we’ve strayed from the purpose of education.
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Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools. Read Post »
The bill will accelerate depletion of Social Security and Medicare’s trust funds by a year, according to an analysis.
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Social Security Chief Celebrates Budget Bill That Could Slash Program’s Finances Read Post »
Just in time for the nation’s birthday, House Republicans have passed the most regressive legislation in recent memory, a bill that’s expected to cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and boot some 12 million Americans off their health insurance, even as it explodes the federal deficit—all to extend and expand tax cuts that favor the rich. […]
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Republicans Just Passed “the Worst Bill in Modern American History” Read Post »
This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. The Federal Communications Commission will no longer enforce a rule capping the price of prison phone calls, according to an announcement made Monday by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. The move suspends a 2024 FCC decision that capped the price of in-state phone calls at 6 cents […]
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Trump’s FCC Scraps Ban on Prison Phone Price Gouging, a Gift to Some of His Top Donors Read Post »
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As she canvassed for Zohran Mamdani in New York City on Tuesday last week, Batul Hassan should have been elated. Her mayoral candidate—a 33-year-old state assemblymember—was surging in the polls and would within hours soundly defeat Andrew Cuomo on first preference […]
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How Zohran Mamdani Tied Climate Policy to Voters’ Pocketbook Issues Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The federal Weatherization Assistance Program is the oldest and largest energy efficiency initiative in American history. Born from the 1973 oil crisis, it helps low- and moderate-income households make a litany of upgrades to their homes, such as installing insulation, sealing windows, and […]
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Why So Many Low-Income Households Can’t Afford This Free Home Improvement Program Read Post »
A new Oxfam report found the wealth of the global 1 percent has increased by $33.9 trillion since 2015.
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Billionaires’ Wealth Has Skyrocketed by Over $6 Trillion Over the Past Decade Read Post »
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