NAFTA and its destruction of working class America
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA Jiwon Choi, Ilyana Kuziemko, Ebonya L. Washington & Gavin Wright Why have white, less […]
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Schumer Took a $66k Bundle of Checks From the Health Insurance Industry’s Top Lobbyist
In the third quarter of this year, as the Democratic leaders of Congress were scrambling to decide what to keep in President Biden’s reconciliation … […]
Code for Democracy Debuts New Tool to Track Money in Politics
Sludge is excited to share a new platform for searching and tracking money-in-politics information created by the nonprofit organization Code for … Code for Democracy […]
Top House Dem Buys Stock in Pharma Companies and Defense Contractors
The Build Back Better Act is in limbo in the U.S. House, with Democratic leaders delaying a vote on the bill on Friday, casting doubt […]
Tune into Jon Stewart with Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Tune into Jon Stewart with Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase Jon interviews and impeaches the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, exposing the duplicitous […]
How Can Musk And Bezos Save 42 Million People From Starving To Death? A $6 Billion Donation
Beasley noted that Bezos’ net worth increased by far more than $6 billion during the coronavirus pandemic and that Musk saw his net-worth rise by […]
Billionaires Are Not Morally Qualified To Shape Human Civilization
Listen to a reading of this article:❖Human civilization is being engineered in myriad ways by an unfathomably wealthy class who are so emotionally … Billionaires […]
The Insurance Industry’s Favorite Rep Delivers Again
In April, President Biden proposed in his American Families Plan the establishment of a national paid family and medical leave program to provide … The […]
The Secretive Group Steering the Dems
How did Democrats in the House of Representatives decide that the top House recipient of corporate PAC money should run the tax code-writing … The Secretive Group […]
Neal’s Reconciliation Plan Lets Investment Managers Keep Their Tax Loophole
In 2007, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) was an original cosponsor of a bill that would have closed a tax … Neal’s […]
Manchin Removes Ethics Provisions From Democratic Reform Bill
The For the People Act passed by the U.S. House in March, filibustered in the Senate in June, contains over a hundred pages of ethics […]
More and More Medicare Money is Flowing to Private Equity
The old Dollar Tree around the corner from me in Brooklyn gave up the ghost earlier this year, and efficient construction crews swooped in to […]