United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Representative Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) reintroduced the Nationwide Right to Unionize Act, legislation that would support the right to unionize by prohibiting states from banning union security agreements through “right-to-work” laws.
Following is a bullet list of main aspects of the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Please be advised that this list does not go into detail but offers you a quick look at what the government wishes to achieve broadly for it’s citizens. $110 billion for roads and bridges $40 billion specifically for the replacement, repair, and rehabilitation of bridges. There are more than 617,000 bridges across the United States. Currently, 42% of all bridges are at least 50 years old, and…
The tax paying citizens of the United States have once again been shafted as a result of President Trump and his Republican Party into putting forward alleged tax cuts in the form of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act put into effect December 2017. Here are the reasons this is a shame upon the president and his Republican Party: The really rich, plutocracy class, gains the most and the low and middle class get way less. By giving tax cuts to…
Some of the rust belt states, controlled by Republican governors, have cut the money spent on junior colleges and universities. The last presidential election really drove home that the rust belt states are struggling. A lot of people are out of work across the United States. The prior job base occupations have disappeared for blue collar workers. The new reality is people may need to be retrained. The businesses that once populated the rust belt are gone. More technical skilled…
A me economy that follows a non positive cycle where the masses of people have less to spend and less rewards may stall and diminish the nation.
The Arab Spring at first seemed to be a new bright beginning for the Middle East but one must understand that the humane being is innately not compassionate but self serving and out of that selfish to the point of denying anyone else from attaining any gain.
This American Life served up a rather shocking view, September 26, 2014, showing us an inside view of the inner workings of the New York Federal Reserve that appears to reveal how some administrators exhibit weakness and seem warm to the banks that they are expected to regulate. If a staff member shows backbone and tries to adhere to the mission of the institution they may find themselves out of a job. The sum total of this program seems to…
I began to realize that the business leaders of all those financial institutions totally failed to understand how this nation was changing, failed to predict the election, failed to understand the social forces that were changing since the past four years.
“Close to half of U.S. households currently do not owe federal income tax.” How accurate is this statement? This statement is cited as evidence, typically by Republicans, that lower income families do not pay their fair share of income taxes. This viewpoint is flawed because it specifies income tax. There are other forms of taxation. Let us list them one by one and see who pays and at what rate. Income Tax The recession of 2008 and beyond has vastly…