Friday, April 28, 2017

Economics and Corruption related links 042817




More States To Expand Medicaid Now That Obamacare Remains Law


 

Coal mining jobs Trump would bring back no longer exist.


 

Here’s the Data Republicans Just Allowed ISPs to Sell Without Your Consent: Privacy watchdogs blasted the vote as a brazen GOP giveaway to the broadband industry.


 

The Texas economic miracle is over


 

Paul Krugman Reveals Why So Many Trump Voters Appear to Vote Against Their Own Self-Interest: The New York Times Columnist Debunks the Notion that West Virginians Hope to Recrown King Coal


 

Trump Targets Trade Abuses With Executive Orders: The president had made campaign promises to make changes to trading, voicing criticism of the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement


 

Pennsylvania Town Looks to Medical Cannabis Industry to Replace Lost Steel Jobs: City leaders in the town of Braddock rally for medical marijuana license to help bring back jobs and fight rising opioid addiction.


 

Since 2007, the DEA has taken $3.2 billion in cash from people not charged with a crime


 

The Curtis Scholarship, conceived and funded by Global Citizen Ambassador and Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis, is an annual award to mentor and support Curtis Scholars. The Curtis Scholarship seeks to create, support, and equip a network of youth advocates and community leaders committed to local and global action.


 

Republicans must be punished for lying about health care for eight years


 

Health talks dominate Ryan meeting


 

Trumpcare Isn’t Health Care. It’s a Tax Cut for the Wealthy.  And maybe that’s the whole point of the bill.


 

Expanding Social Security Has More Momentum Than You Think: Over 80 percent of House Democrats agree that it’s time.


 

Americans Everywhere Benefit From the NEA and NEH: And that includes coal miners who voted for Trump.


 

Trump’s Assault on Immigrants Will Seriously Damage the Economy: The key sectors in which we can expect growth are dependent on immigrant labor.


 

Letters From the April 10, 2017, Issue: The road to Trump… Alien-Nation… The people’s news… Crash!… The past as prologue?…


 

Trump’s Budget Is a Perfect Reflection of Republican Values: It’s cruel, duplicitous and ignorant.


 

Housekeepers Versus Harvard: Feminism for the Age of Trump: A feminism for the 99 percent has been forged by working-class immigrant women who confronted Harvard’s first female president and Sheryl Sandberg.


 

The Fight to Save the Affordable Care Act Is Really a Class Battle: Starting to mitigate America’s yawning class divide is exactly what the ACA did. And that’s exactly what the Republican plan would undo.


 

The Tea Party Helped Build the Bridge to Single-Payer: By pushing a draconian repeal of Obamacare, they awakened a giant. Thanks, guys!


 

The Red Emigrant: For Isaac Deutscher, exile helped him discover his real community—the internationalist left.


 

At Labor’s Crossroads: Three new books about the SEIU reveal the challenges of organizing in 21st-century America.


 

Time to Expand Medicare


 

Needed: A Stake to Kill the Vampire-Myths


 

DISPATCHES: HOUSE ‘TRUMPCARE’ PLAN WOULD LEAVE MILLIONS UNINSURED


 

It’s Only My Health: I’m one of the millions who could lose access to health care if Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act


 

Labor Loses Its Way


 

Hands Off Medicaid!


 

Proposed: A Health-to-Income Ratio


 

Regulation Isn’t What Threatens Economy


 

Welcome to Conservative Health Reform


 

Blue America gets richer


 

Nixon, Reagan Paved Way For GOP’s Race-Charged Health Agenda: Everybody knows who Republicans mean when they talk about “the poor.”


 

Should we pay the rich to build infrastructure, then pay them to use it?


 

Mary Sanchez: GOP health care bill recycles tired moralizing of the poor: Read more here:


 

Trump’s plan for health care chaos: Watch the GOP bill fail and hope Obamacare will “implode” - With the GOP's health care bill on the critical list, Trump's cynical fallback plan looks like his only option


 

Trump administration’s health care lies are starting to hurt


 

Paul Ryan’s alternate universe: Speaker laughably insists the budget office handed him a victory: With some cherry-picking and clumsy lies, Ryan argues that the CBO report boosts his dreadful health care bill


 

SPLC reaches $2.3 million settlement in wage theft case on behalf of resort workers


 

Alabama poultry plant fined for safety violations after SPLC complaint


 

Bait & Switch: Trump Trade Plans to “Bring American Jobs Back” as Promised in Campaign Notably MIA in Speech


 

Sanders Tackles Drug Pricing (Again), This Time With Help From 'Big-Pharma Dems': Lawmakers call on President Donald Trump to make good on campaign promises and back their bill in Tuesday's address to Congress


 

Big Victory for Workers:Together We Stopped the TPP!!


 

Never tell an ER nurse "Hey, people can just go see you! Problem solved!"


 

The Despair of Learning That Experience No Longer Matters


 

Casey says Miners Protection Act has ‘good shot’ at approval


 

State tuition: Now free in N.Y. Still expensive in Pa.


 

NAACP says electricity is a basic human right, demands end to power shutoffs


 

Chinese Blame America for United Airlines: The brutal treatment of an Asian-American doctor has reminded Chinese of everything they hate about the United States.


 

Freedom Caucus stands up


 

New law will restrict women's access to health care, experts fear


 

Democrats say spending bill must fund Obamacare payments


 

Mitch McConnell reaps what he has sown with Trumpcare


 

Republicans launch their crusade for elder poverty with repeal of automatic retirement accounts


 

Kansas prepares to lose another hospital - Brownback scrambles for a solution


 

Which state sends most taxes to DC? Hint: It's not a state


 

Wolf's minimum wage hike would cost Pa. 54k jobs, study: Tuesday Morning Coffee


 

Pa. releases draft medical marijuana regulations for doctors


 

Mississippi rejects nearly all of its welfare applicants but won't explain why


 

You Are Now Paying Internet Companies to Sell Your Browsing History to Advertisers: Thanks, Trump!


 

Employee Rights


 

Interfering with employee rights (Section 7 & 8(a)(1))


 

The cause of death that dare not speak its name: austerity


 

The Far Right Finally Has Brexit—and It’s Making a Royal Mess of It: Just like the Republicans, the UK right doesn’t know what to do when it gets what it wants.


 

The Egalitarians: Three new books on the founders explore the critical, if often contested, role equality has played in shaping the American imagination


 

California senator gets called a sellout at town hall for saying she 'isn't there' for single payer


 

Sen. Heller's job security moves to a 'high-risk pool' after a persistent woman confronts him


 

Senate panel endorses full practice for nurse practitioners


 

These advocates want Pennsylvania to decriminalize marijuana — just like Pittsburgh did: They will rally Wednesday in Harrisburg. And you can join them.


 

White House Lifts Hiring Freeze


 

Why is marijuana banned in some states? The real reasons are worse than you think


 

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