Elizabeth Warren to propose new 'wealth tax'
A Momentary Victory for the ACA: Federal Judge Issues a
Nationwide Injunction against Trump Administration’s Contraceptive Coverage
Carve Outs
The poisonous politics of betrayal
Oklahoma bill would revoke teachers' certification if
they walk out and protest
Royal Asscher Diamond Company
The FTC is reportedly considering hitting Facebook with a
'record-setting' fine over privacy issues
Minimum Wage Hikes in New York City Cause Restaurants to
Eliminate Jobs, Cut Hours, Raise Prices
Good intentions do not always lead to good outcomes.
At Davos, a reckoning for capitalism as practiced
U.S. Shutdown Pain Yet to Infect Economic-Growth
Forecasts
Turns out Republicans don't care about the dignity of a
paycheck after all
The Economy Can’t Shrug Off the Shutdown Forever: Idled
federal employees and contractors roughly match the job losses from a
recession.
Meet John Bolton: The Mercer-Backed Trump Advisor Pushing
for Post-Brexit Deregulation
Trump Administration Now Has 4 Corporate Lobbyists Serving
as Cabinet Secretaries
US files criminal charges in two Huawei cases, seeks
extradition of CFO Meng Wanzhou
Government Shutdown Cost U.S. Economy $3 Billion: CBO
Report. Federal workers and
private-sector entities were hit the hardest, according to the Congressional
Budget Office.
GOP Tax Cut Had No Major Impact On Business Investment Or
Hiring: Survey. The White House had
predicted the massive fiscal stimulus package would boost business spending and
job growth.
Citing $750 Million Tax Break for Amazon While Students
Suffer, Teachers Walk Out in Virginia
"While legislators in the Virginia legislature
debate giving enormous handouts to Amazon for HQ2, public school teachers
struggle with less than adequate school funding, low wages, and more."
A Very "Informed" Elizabeth Warren Explains
Exactly Why Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan Should Be Fired:
"It's clear that Tim Sloan isn't the right person to
try to clean up Wells Fargo," senator says in Monday morning Twitter
thread.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 70 Percent Tax on the Rich
Isn't About Revenue, It's About Decreasing Inequality: Progressive taxation
should work as a corrective tax, like tobacco taxes or a carbon tax, fixing the
problems created by exploitative capitalism
The World to Come: The ruling elite’s goal is to keep us
entertained, frightened and passive while they build draconian structures of
oppression
In Defense of “Taxpayer-Funded Abortion”: It’s time to
fight like hell for Roe v. Wade, for accessible contraception options, and for
comprehensive maternal healthcare, but it’s also time to fight for the public assistance
for abortion that low-income people deserve
The lowest-paid shutdown workers aren't getting back pay
THE WORLD'S LEAST CORRUPT COUNTRIES: THE U.S. DROPS OUT
OF THE TOP 20
The Prime Minister has suffered a humiliating defeat. She
misread the EU, misread her party and misread Parliament
It’s time for parliament to wrest control from the
zombies
Finally, MPs can tell us what they really, really want to
do about Brexit
What will happen in tonight’s crucial Commons votes on
Brexit?
Tucker Carlson has fired the first shot in conservatives'
civil war over the free market
The Right Should Reject Tucker Carlson’s Victimhood
Populism
Where to place the blame for the suffering of the working
class
Tucker Carlson Versus Conservatism: The Fox News host
amplifies a debate the right needs to have.
Tucker Carlson Thinks the Problem With America Is Market
Capitalism: The populist pundit couldn’t be more wrong.
The Free Market Is Not Just a Tool
El Chapo's business partner
McConnell Estate Tax Repeal Would Hand Billions to Walton
and Koch Families
Less Than Six Hours of Sleep a Night May Increase
Atherosclerosis
The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of
Competition
Brexit and US shutdown transcript: Which country has
bigger problems?
Squatters turn oligarch's empty London property into
homeless shelter: Vast £15m home bought by Russian Andrey Goncharenko, who
wants to add a pool and leisure centre, is housing about 25 people
Millions of Americans Flood Into Mexico for Health Care —
the Human Caravan You Haven’t Heard About
Brexit’s Destruction Of British And EU Citizens’ Rights
Will Tear Families Apart
DONALD TRUMP'S SPIRITUAL ADVISER PAULA WHITE SUGGESTS
PEOPLE SEND HER THEIR JANUARY SALARY OR FACE CONSEQUENCES FROM GOD
Unless It Changes, Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By
2050
Robert F. Kennedy Jr Explains How Big Pharma Completely
Owns Congress
Government fears Eddie Lampert would wipe out Sears'
pension plans
Vote Leave director admits they won because they lied to
the public
Britain’s Brexit Crack-Up: Why has the Labour Party
listened so late and so half-heartedly to the majority of its members who
support the call for a People’s Vote?
When Corporations Pay CEOs Way More Than Employees, Make
Them Pay! Portland’s groundbreaking strategy for curbing executive compensation
should be a model for the rest of the country.
Progressives Will Get Their Debate on Medicare for All —
And Questions Abound: Democrats have put the issue on the House’s agenda, so
now the real scrutiny begins.
Where Is AI Driving Us?
Zooming at us at blinding speed, it’s AI, the fast-evolving science of
artificial intelligence. But what’s it really bringing?
On Drug Prices, Americans Are the Real Suckers
Prices, Plutocrats, and Corporate Concentration
Tax Dollars Can Buy Happiness
Welcoming Cupid!
The Government Shutdown Expands the Ranks of ‘Underwater
Nation’: Unemployment is low, but federal employees are lining up at food
banks. They aren’t alone.
Bigger is Not Better
Tax Justice and the Democratic Prospect
Messy Urbanization Hits Asia’s Poor Hard
Southwest Airlines Herb Kelleher – One of a Kind!
Maori Davenport's Case Exposes the Sham of 'Amateurism'
Libertarian Warren Mosler - Keep Deficit and Eliminate
Taxes (MMT for Conservatives Part 3)
The Center of the Universe
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MMT (BUT WERE AFRAID
TO ASK)
Ever heard of modern monetary theory?
Actually, it was Democrats who killed the 70
percent tax: The Reagan-era tax deal has some lessons to teach reformers like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
COMPANIES SPENT 140 TIMES MORE ON STOCK BUYBACKS THAN
WAGE INCREASES IN 2018 AND AMERICANS SHOULD BE 'OUTRAGED,' SAY BERNIE SANDERS,
CHUCK SCHUMER
Theresa May is about to force through an avalanche of new
Brexit laws
Maybot random speech generator gets stuck on repeat:
Although PM had nothing much to say to her Belfast audience, she managed to say
it three times
How Much Money Has Congress Taken From Social Security?
As Energy for Medicare for All Soars, Pelosi Aide
Reportedly Assured Insurance Industry That Democratic Leaders Remain 'Allies':
"Seventy percent of Americans support Medicare for All. Congress should
listen to the people, not water down and stifle policy supported by the
majority."
NANCY PELOSI TELLS HEALTH INSURANCE EXECUTIVES NOT TO
WORRY ABOUT MEDICARE FOR ALL
The Fleecing of Millennials: Their incomes are flat.
Their wealth is down. And Washington is aggravating future threats.
Dan O'Brien: 'If there's no deal over Brexit, our choice
is stark - build a hard Border or pay an enormous price'
The Guardian view on Brexit and Ireland: a danger to
peace: Electoral contingency and political expediency cannot be allowed to
break up Britain
Dissident republican threat: They haven’t gone away, you
know
Deaglán de Bréadún: The more politics changes, the more
it stays the same
Elizabeth Warren endorses 'wealth tax' just in time for
presidential run
The Democratic Promise of Ocasio-Cortez, Warren and
Sanders: Economic power corrupts, and absolute economic power corrupts
absolutely.
Trump voters explode after realizing they’re getting
screwed by the GOP’s tax plan: ‘I trusted you!’
Fentanyl Maker Donates Big to Campaign Opposing Pot
Legalization: Pro-legalization campaign says 'we are truly shocked.'
35-Day Government Shutdown Cost the U.S. Economy $3
Billion in Permanent Losses
Citadel Hedge Fund Founder Sets Spending Record Buying a
Sizable NYC Pied-a-Terre
The tax cut investment 'boom' is already over. Some say
it never really started
Opioid company
executives set to go on trial in Boston Monday
Harley-Davidson shares plunge as tariffs kill profits,
riders dwindle
Pharma shatters lobbying records
For drug companies, making shareholders happy is more
important than treating the sick
Insulin prices propel higher spending among diabetics
Rx drug prices continue to rise — here's what you can do
Scamming Grandma: Financial Abuse of Seniors Hits
Record. Banks report 12% increase of
suspected cases as they step up efforts to detect and stop fraud
Religion makes America give
Britain in a tailspin
Too Many Americans Will Never Be Able to Retire: Without
more babies and immigrants, the country won’t be able to support its aging
population.
Amazon Tries To Woo Wary New Yorkers With Promises Of A
'Mutually Beneficial Partnership'
Progressives target Amazon
Public Citizen Urges FDA to Ban Common, Deadly Gout
Medication: Febuxostat Increases Risk of Death and Has No Unique Benefits
Cheating Workers Out of Their Paychecks Is How Trump Does
Business: Statement of Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen
FDA Should Reject Dangerous New Diabetes Medication: Dr.
Sidney Wolfe, Founder and Senior Adviser of Public Citizen’s Health Research
Group, Urges Rejection of Sotagliflozin
Letter to Congress Purportedly From ‘Patient
Organizations’ Actually Dominated by Industry Groups, Medical Industrial Complex:
Letter Opposes Medicare Part D Negotiating Authority to Make Medicines More
Affordable
More Than 70 U.S. Health, Consumer and Other Groups
Demand Elimination of NAFTA 2.0 Terms That Would Lock in High U.S. Medicine
Prices. Letter to Congress: Giveaways to Big Pharma Must Be Removed From
Revised NAFTA
Arizona Nurse Arrested for Assault on Incapacitated
Patient Highlights How Few Nurses Face Punishment for Abuse: Groundbreaking
Public Citizen Report Shows That States Are Failing to Protect Patients From
Nurse Misconduct
Shutdown Is ‘Extortion, Plain and Simple,’ Say 78 Groups:
Leading Public Interest Organizations Demand Republican Senators End the Trump
Shutdown, Reopen the Government Immediately
OSHA Rollback Endangers Worker Health and Safety, Lawsuit
Says: Court Should Overturn Partial Rollback of OSHA’s Electronic Reporting
Rule, Finalized During Shutdown
Republicans and Democrats Agree: Congress Must Address
Americans’ No. 1 Health Policy Priority.
Statement of Peter Maybarduk, Director, Public Citizen’s Access to
Medicines Program
Hearing on Medicine Affordability Highlights Need to
Challenge Pharmaceutical Industry’s Business Model: Statement of Peter
Maybarduk, Director, Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines Program
Azar’s Attempt to Lower Prescription Costs Takes a
Backdoor Approach When the Government Should Challenge Corporations at Their
Front Doorsteps: Statement of Peter Maybarduk, Director, Public Citizen’s
Access to Medicines Program
Financial Crash Bandits Run Wild Under Trump Presidency:
Trump DOJ Gave Big Bank Violators a Slap on the Wrist in 2018, Public Citizen
Finds
https://www.citizen.org/media/press-releases/financial-crash-bandits-run-wild-under-trump-presidency
Shorter Waits and Higher Efficiency: The Truth About
Medicare-for-All. Worker Transition, Lower Costs and Increased Efficiency Are
Central to a Single-Payer System
Trump's CFPB Director Threatens to Fill the Swamp With
Loan Sharks: Statement of Bartlett Naylor, Financial Policy Advocate, Public
Citizen's Congress Watch Division
CREATES Act – A Serious Start to Disciplining
Pharmaceutical Corporations: Statement of Steve Knievel, Access to Medicines
Advocate, Public Citizen's Access to Medicines Program
Public Citizen Calls on Ways and Means Subcommittee to
Obtain Trump's Tax Returns: Statements of Public Citizen experts
Congress Must Pass Landmark Legislation to Stop Pharma
Rip-Offs: Statement of Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen
Washington Should Shine Light on SunTrust BB&T
Merger: Statement of Bartlett Naylor, Financial Policy Advocate, Public
Citizen’s Congress Watch Division
Medicare For All? Yes, But How Do We Get There?
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