[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Well, the President is trying, anyway. In the last 4 years the Federal Judiciary has moved a bit closer to reflecting the faces of those who come before it seeking justice. With over 3,200 judges in the Federal Court system, it is astonishing how the names of so many […]
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.0.51″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] The following two articles were published last week by Robert Reich on robertreich.org and Timothy Noah of the New Republic. They make the case for increasing the minimum wage and not just to what President Obama called for in his State of the Union address, but higher. The […]
Every State Can Implement Transgender-Inclusive Health Coverage | Center for American Progress. Transgender people have consistently been subject to health care coverage policies that arbitrarily cut off access to the care they need. State policymakers in Oregon, however, have recently stepped up to end this kind of discrimination. It is no secret that pervasive bias […]
The far-right wing, hell-bent on redoubling efforts at judicial activism, shows no signs of stopping or even slowing down. As things currently stand, a handful of Republican Senators, hopelessly out of touch with mainstream America, have somehow managed to make their efforts at derailing the agenda of President Clinton pale in comparison to the absolute […]
On January 1, 2013, Congress agreed to a deal offered by the White House that averted the so-called ‘fiscal cliff.’ The agreement, passed into law as the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, did not include feared cuts to social programs. However, new budget negotiations and the debt ceiling increase are right around the corner. Once again, […]
As Congress once again prepares to grapple with the issue of raising our nation’s debt ceiling, that is to say– as conservatives once again ponder holding or nation’s credit rating and economic well-being hostage for their own self-serving interests– Senate Budget Chair Patty Murray has issued a memo showing that further deficit reduction can only […]
Published on November 16 by our friends at Americans for Tax Fairness There is a push in Washington to reduce the federal deficit by $4 trillion over the next 10 years, primarily by cutting government spending. But federal spending was already cut by $1.5 trillion in the first round of deficit reduction negotiated in 2011 […]
Two-thirds of voters agreed that making the tax system fair was a very or fairly important consideration in determining how they cast their vote on Election Day, according to a new poll released today by Hart Research Associates on behalf of Americans for Tax Fairness.
Mitt Romney claims that people with pre-existing conditions would be covered under his plan to repeal Obamacare; this is a lie. Romney and Ryan also claim that our senior citizens would not be impacted by their plans to overhaul the Medicare system. This is also another in a long list of lies. Read this report […]
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