"Words that make actions speak louder."
Two reports reinforce one of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s chief attack lines against competitor Bernie Sanders: that his “numbers don’t add up” and that he is making promises “that cannot be kept.”
A new regulation proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau restores the right of banking and credit card customers to have their day in court and hold companies accountable for their wrongdoing.
A bill just passed by the extreme conservative Kansas legislature prevents municipalities from clamping down on just-in-time work scheduling abuses by companies. It’s a sign of an accelerating trend.
The “Hastert rule” has been used to subvert the majority will of the people’s representatives time and again – and that’s just one of the ways a veteran House staffer says Dennis Hastert perverted the functioning of House.
Bernie Sanders is not the match that lit a progressive populist flame. The match was the unrest with Democratic Party politics that revealed itself long before he “felt the Bern” himself.
Remembering the artist Prince and one of his greatest hits, “1999,” got us thinking: 1999 was actually a pretty good year for the U.S. economy. Is it too much to ask that we emulate what we got right back then?
The Massachusetts senator takes on tax preparation services that make a lot of money off of complicated tax forms and don’t want the Internal Revenue Service to implement a law that would make tax filing simpler.
House Republicans have proven themselves incapable of bringing even their own budget to a floor vote. But there is still reason to get members of Congress to declare their support for the People’s Budget.
In New York, before the Democratic candidates get to their debate and the Republican candidates get to a major fundraiser, they have to get past the nationwide demonstrations of the Fight for $15 movement.
The daughter of Donald Trump complained of New York’s “onerous rules” that will keep her from voting in the Republican primary. But New York isn’t even on the list of states that have recently added onerous voting restrictions.