income inequality

Patriotic Millionaires Condemn Trump’s Plan to Gut Healthcare to Benefit the Wealthy

Patriotic Millionaires Condemn Trump’s Plan to Gut Healthcare to Benefit the Wealthy

"Gutting the ACA funding would only further add to our already egregious levels of economic inequality"

7 years ago

Justice Denied for Merrick Garland and the American People

Justice has not only been denied to a worthy Supreme Court nominee and the work of the high court. It…

7 years ago

Hillary Clinton’s Brilliant Education Plan Will Work And End Education Wars

Clinton promises to be a champion for education by not taking advice from people interested in breaking unions and privatizing…

8 years ago

Trickle-Down to Keep-the-Worker-Down: It’s Not the “Skills Gap” Driving Down Wages

Witness the reality of the GOP's keep-the worker-down economics and its persistent drive to re-distribute wealth from the bottom to…

8 years ago

Half Of America is Now Impoverished Because the Koch-Republicans Destroyed the Middle Class

The percentage of middle-class households dropped in every state in the Union between 2000 and 2013, along with median income

8 years ago

To Address America’s Poverty Epidemic Doctors To Start Screening For Child Hunger

According to pediatricians, doctors should start screening their child patients for hunger, and the lesser-known problem of food insecurity

8 years ago

Republican Welfare Reform Pushed A Third Of America’s Children Into Extreme Poverty

The economy is growing for the extremely wealthy, but there were 3 million more children living in extreme poverty in…

9 years ago

Trump Thinks He Can Scare the Pope, Whom He is Pretty Sure Doesn’t Hate Capitalism

Donald Trump wants to pit his fourth-grade level rhetoric against the Pope to convince him only capitalism can keep ISIL…

9 years ago

Donald Trump Advises Automakers To Kill Jobs To Increase Corporate Profits

Trump's plan to help U.S. automakers sounds an awful lot like Mitt Romney's underhanded tactics at Bain Capital

9 years ago

The Entire World Knows GOP Trickle Down Is Disastrous For Americans And The Economy

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), has finally conducted comprehensive research and reported what every conscious human being on Earth already…

9 years ago

Don’t Be Fooled Because Kansas Republicans Admit Trickle Down Is a Scam

Kansas' Republican legislators are all but admitting their precious trickle down experiment was not only a failure, it is a…

9 years ago

Darrell Issa Opened His Mouth And Shot Republicans In The Foot On Income Inequality

The wealthiest member of Congress, Republican Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has a message for America's poor people. During an interview…

9 years ago

John Boehner To Hold Tax Repeal Vote To Increase Welfare For the Rich

Speaker of the House John Boehner will hold a vote to repeal the "Estate Tax" and give the very richest…

9 years ago

Critics Claim Hillary Has an Income Inequality Problem

Have we really reached the point where asking the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes is a form…

9 years ago

MLK Would Join Obama’s Fight Against The Racist GOP Economic Agenda

In fact, there is absolutely nothing whatsoever that Republicans represent that Dr. King would even tepidly support, and in fact…

9 years ago

Despite Obama’s National Economic Success Republican State Economies Are Failing   

Republicans ran on, and won big with, their claim that the GOP is "the party of solutions" founded on conservative…

9 years ago

A Stroke Of Obama’s Pen Will Lift 10.4 Million Workers Into the Middle Class

If the President simply adjusted the salary threshold for inflation since it was last raised in 1975, it would be…

9 years ago

Inconvenient Truth: America’s Public Schools Are Among Highest Achieving In The World

If, as privatization "reformers" in Republican, corporate, and Obama Education Department claim that America's public schools are dire failures, then…

9 years ago

Rick Perry Quotes Jesus To Justify Income Inequality and Poverty

Perry's message is clear; there is no reason to address poverty, income inequality, or make any effort to help those…

9 years ago

Decent Economic Growth Hides The Increasing Gap Between the Rich and Everyone Else

As long as the wealthy continue benefitting from the President's economic recovery, Republicans will stay the austerity course that continues…

10 years ago

Republicans Go Mad As Pope Francis and President Obama Deliver The Same Economic Message

Republican evangelicals have gone mad with rage as Pope Francis and President Obama are delivering the same rejection of their…

10 years ago

Republicans Are Making Sure That the Economic Recovery Only Benefits the Rich

If Americans have learned only one thing about the economic recovery, it is that Republicans will make sure the only…

10 years ago

Economists Agree With Democrats: GOP Hurting the Economy by Promoting Income Inequality

A panel of economists has joined President Obama, and struggling Americans to assert categorically that income inequality is crushing the…

10 years ago

Stop Complaining Republicans, the Minimum Wage Should be $22.62 an Hour

Republicans who are wont to claim they speak for all Americans say the people oppose higher wages, but if the…

10 years ago

Are Wal-Mart’s Financials A Light Bulb Moment?

There was a little glimmer of light in the Southern skies last week. It wasn't exactly a light bulb flashing…

11 years ago

Bernie Sanders Storms the Senate Floor and Challenges Congress’ Koch Whores

In a must see 25 minute speech, Senator Bernie Sanders took to the Senate floor and challenged Congress to break…

12 years ago

Daring to Speak the Truth About Job Creation Gets Venture Capitalist Shunned

It wasn't just what Nick Hanauer said that made his TED talk controversial, it was that he dared challenge conservative…

12 years ago

May Day 2012: A Protest Against Everything The Republican Party Stands For

This protest is against everything the Republican Party stands for and works diligently to perpetuate with their relentless Draconian spending…

12 years ago