Monday, October 23, 2017

Economics and Corruption related links 102317



The Weeds debates Graham-Cassidy longer than senators will be allowed to


 

Why Democrats Should Love the GOP Health Care Plan: Graham-Cassidy could turn a red electoral map blue.


 

Republicans' new health bill would hit women hardest, experts say: Women would ‘bear the brunt’ of the bill’s funding cuts and weaker regulations, says policy analyst, with access to reproductive healthcare particularly affected


 

If the U.S. Adopts the G.O.P.’s Health-Care Bill, It Would Be an Act of Mass Suicide


 

Hillary Clinton on universal healthcare and Obamacare


 

Sen. Al Franken goes to the mat to protect Americans from Graham-Cassidy healthcare disaster


 

Lindsey Graham Just Got An Unpleasant Surprise As He Walked Into His Healthcare Hearing


 

GOP already eyeing next chance to revive Obamacare repeal: Senate Republicans are discussing whether to use their next budget reconciliation measure to target the health law.


 

How Republicans could still revive Obamacare repeal after their September 30 deadline: Repeal will never truly be dead so long as the GOP controls Congress.


 

Trump says tax plan to nearly double standard deduction


 

Trump Promises A Tax Cut For The Middle Class, Guarantees One For The Rich: The only details released so far slash taxes for business owners and the richest taxpayers. Everyone else gets the White House’s word they’ll get a cut, too.


 

Could Trump tax reform plan affect Pennsylvania's long-running property tax debate?


 

Details of GOP tax reform framework revealed


 

The GOP Tax ‘Reform’ Is Highway Robbery: This scam is a full-employment program for corporate lobbyists.


 

An Anti-Growth Tax Cut


 

New Data on Tax Havens and Income Reveal America's Great Divide


 

Trump’s Tax Plan: A Billion or Three for Guys Like Him


 

House passes $4.2 trillion budget, sets up tax cuts for the rich and guts Medicare, Medicaid


 

Tax Reform Is a GOP Fantasy


 

Warning signs emerge in GOP's tax reform push


 

Alexander, Murray to meet for bipartisan health talks


 

Trump preparing executive order to let Americans purchase health insurance across state lines


 

Graham-Cassidy Failure No Relief For Insurers


 

New STD cases hit record high in US, CDC says


 

A handful of ultra-rich dynastic families are bleeding the country dry — and destroying American democracy


 

Bernie’s “Medicare for All” actually is the pragmatic health care solution: Those who claim we have to stick with incremental, “common-sense” measures are living in the political past


 

Yes, Bernie Sanders’s plan moves America closer to single-payer: How Sanders has changed the health care debate.


 

One Way for G.O.P. to Achieve Some Repeal Goals? It’s Already Part of Obamacare


 

How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers


 

Let’s talk about ‘The Jimmy Kimmel Test’ for a second, and not the one that you think: If the GOP is not going to take its own policy ideas seriously, comedians might as well pick up the slack.


 

Regulator Wants Financial Industry to Self-Report Wrongdoing


 

The Best Health Care System in the World: Which One Would You Pick?


 

Georgia and Alabama Cities Deny Utilities to Some Immigrants and Poor Residents


 

9 million kids get health insurance under CHIP. Congress just let it expire.


 

The Financial Industry Is Its Own Best Enemy: Equifax’s blunder does more than any white paper to demonstrate the need for financial reform.


 

IRS awards multi-million dollar fraud-prevention contract to Equifax: The no-bid contract was issued last week, as the company continued facing fallout from its massive security breach


 

Trump Speaks and a $3.8 Trillion Market Hears an Existential Threat


 

Rs May Boost Single-Payer


 

Transportation Key to Getting Out of Poverty


 

A health care system for people, not just for corporate profit


 

How to Get a Health Care System for People, not Just for Corporate Profit


 

DISPATCHES


 

Elite Cities Should Share the Wealth (and Crowding) With Others


 

The Aftermath of Hurricane Donald


 

Medicare For All Can Reshape the ‘Art of the Possible’


 

Janet Yellen and the Fed: Progressives Should Pay Attention


 

California Community Colleges’ Win Against Corporate Reformers


 

The Growing Danger of Dynastic Wealth


 

The stark difference between Republicans and Democrats on health care couldn’t be clearer


 

A Scrooge-Test: How Much Did it Cost?


 

Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Affordable Health Care


 

Why President Trump Should Support Single-Payer Health Insurance


 

Destructive Stock Buybacks—That You Pay For


 

The Flagrant Sexual Hypocrisy of Conservative Men


 

Trump administration deals major blow to Obamacare birth control mandate


 

No action on latest bid to end 3-month Pennsylvania budget stalemate


 

Pa. hotel tax hike could kill smaller Philly levy for promoting tourism 


 

Bipartisan pressure growing in Pa. House for a vote on a shale tax bill


 

No budget deal? No problem. 'I can do this indefinitely,' Wolf says


 

Wolf to veto bill creating Medicaid benefit hurdles


 

Gov. Tom Wolf, angry about budget deadlocks, will turn to liquor stores to close deficit


 

Where is the uproar over TMI’s potential closure?: Editorial


 

Dedicated transportation funds should be preserved for just that


 

The Worst Budget Ever?


 

The House Budget Shows Us That Poverty Is a Choice


 

The Bipartisan Attack on People with Disabilities: ‘If This Passes, My Children Will Have a Tougher Life Than I Had’


 

The Incredible Corrupting White House: The pervasive abuse of taxpayer money—and trust—will make our democracy harder to repair.


 

Democrats accuse Trump of ‘sabotage’ on Obamacare sign-ups: Slashed outreach and a shortened sign-up period are expected to reduce enrollment numbers.


 

Trump vented to Tillerson about law barring US companies from bribing foreign officials: report


 

Republicans Angry at Economists for Finding Their Tax Cuts Go to the Rich


 

Donald Trump’s Obamacare Sabotage Is Starting to Piss Off Republicans: In Iowa, the administration has complicated the state’s efforts to get an Obamacare waiver. The GOP officials there aren’t exactly pleased.


 

Corporations are Already Gaming the Tax System—Trump Wants to let them Pay Even Less.


 

Here are the Tax Cuts Donald Trump Wants to Give Himself and his Millionaire Friends


 

Activism works: CREDO members helped to defeat Trumpcare again


 

You're more likely to achieve the American dream if you live in Denmark


 

A Zillionaire’s Solution: Tax the Rich and Save the Economy.  The Republican tax plan is a scam that won’t create jobs, contrary to what Trump says.


 

Maine insurers say premium hikes will cover subsidy cuts


 

"ANSWER THE QUESTION!!!" Al Franken GETS PISSED OFF & DESTROYS Equifax Ex-CEO


 

In His Own Words: Donald Trump reveals the real, spiteful reason he is sabotaging ObamaCare (Video)


 

Mnuchin: Pass This Tax Bill or Markets Are Going to Tank


 

Is Trump’s tax plan only helping the rich?  Experts say the math doesn’t add up for the President’s tax plan to benefit the middle class, that the plan is tilted to the very top.


 

Senators make case for a public option: Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Michael Bennet, D-Co., have introduced a introduced a public option for the Affordable Care Act called Medicare-X, and they join Morning Joe to discuss.


 

'It's very hard not to give tax cuts to the wealthy,' Steven Mnuchin now says.  The Trump administration has now completed wholesale repeal of the "Mnuchin Rule."  "When you're cutting taxes across the board, it's very hard not to give tax cuts to the wealthy with tax cuts to the middle class," says Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.  That represents a dramatic reversal from Mnuchin's initial assertions on the subject.


 

House Speaker Paul Ryan opposes short-term Obamacare fix proposed in Senate; Schumer says there are enough GOP senators to pass bill


 

Obamacare premiums were stabilizing. Then Trump happened.  The wild card for 2018 rates is the president of the United States.


 

GOP senators agree to proposed $1.5 trillion cut to Medicare and Medicaid


 

Lapse In Federal Funding Imperils Children's Health Coverage


 

51 GOP Senators Just Voted To Cut $1.5 Trillion from Medicare and Medicaid To Give Super-Rich and Corporations a Tax Cut: The Republican budget, declared Sen. Sanders after its passage, "is not a bad bill. It's a horrific bill."


 

Trump’s Latest Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Pass His Own Tax Plan.  Trump and many members of his cabinet would reap billions if the GOP tax cuts become law.


 

49 percent of the income Republicans claim as “small business” already goes to the top 1 percent


 

Teachers and schools are well served by teacher pensions


 

How to improve infrastructure project selection: Account for positive regional spillovers, environmental impacts, and job creation benefits


 

Nominating Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair would be the latest way Trump reneged on promises to put workers’ interests over financial elites


 

Janus is the latest attack on workers’ rights to organize and bargain collectively


 

Fixing education inequalities will require fixing broader societal inequities


 

Australia’s Own Modern Slavery Act?


 

Domestic Workers Win Supreme Court Case Against Saudi Diplomat


 

On Anti-Slavery Day, Leaders Talk About Their Work


 

Vietnamese Child Trafficking Victims Vanish in UK


 

Across America 84 Children Rescued, 120 Human Traffickers Arrested


 

Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies


 

The Uninsured Rate Is Going Up Again: High prices and politics are the most likely culprits.


 

Will Trump Oversee the Financial Apocalypse?  The president has indefatigably used the soaring stock market as the leading indicator of his success in the White House. But what if the stock market’s spike is less a vote of confidence than a harbinger of the radioactive bond market? And what happens when they both go belly-up?

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