The federal government supports more U.S. low wage jobs than McDonald’s and Walmart put together. By Martha Burk McDonald’s really stepped in it this summer when the fast food empire created a budget for its underpaid employees to help them make ends
Gee, I’ll bet you thought that when Romney lost the election, his philosophies died along with the end of that race. You might also have hoped that the GOP might have learned that a clear majority of Americans didn’t care for their
Americans for Prosperity have begun running “scare” ads to convince people to take action against their own interests. Their goal to lie about what Obamacare does or doesn’t offer in an attempt to get them to support #GOP plan to gut healthcare
Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder asked a Federal court in the state of Texas to subject the State of Texas to pre-clearance under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. While the US Supreme Court may have struck down Section 4 of
Martha Stewart allegedly uses insider information to prevent a stock loss of around $46,000 – and goes to jail. U.S. prosecutors indict billionaire Steven Cohen’s hedge fund, that would be “the corporation,” for insider trading, but file absolutely NO charges against CEO
Remove Rep. Steve King from his seat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Border Security now. His hateful characterization of immigrants as criminal drug smugglers and his continued extremism don’t reflect the views of a majority of Americans —
THAT DAY WHEN THE NORTH POLE BECAME A LAKE… Climate change is happening now. In July 2013, a lake formed at the North Pole due to unprecedented melting Arctic sea ice. And yet, at least 127 members of Congress still refuse to
In my email today from Drew Courtney, Director of Communications at PFAW, was the following: One item that didn’t get the attention it deserved during the hearings of DC Circuit nominee Nina Pillard today is her role leading Georgetown University Law Center’s
Gordon William Schumacher died June 30, 2013, of natural causes. He is preceded in death by his wife Nicki and his father Albert and mother Opal, in-Laws Norman and Anna French, brothers-in-law Bob Yenney and Chuck Thompson, along with multiple aunts and
