Tag: economy

Bernie Sanders is fighting to extend social security an extra 40 years by making the wealthiest citizens pay the same rate as everyone else does.

Republican presidential candidates all claimed they would not raise taxes on millionaires if elected.

A new study shows that Medicaid-covered births are up and contraceptive claims are down.

Economists see the Illinois Secure Choice Savings Program, designed for private-sector workers, as an innovative complement to Social Security.

Two recent economic reports have contradicted the claims that jobs will increase. They have shown that, more than likely, the deal will lead to a loss of jobs.

This upcoming election is an important one for U.S. citizens. It is time to take back democracy with equal opportunities and fairness.

Corporate honchos say taxes are “forcing” them to relocate their businesses to offshore tax havens.

Thousands of residents in New Jersey will soon lose their food stamps because of Gov. Chris Christie.

Big words, like good and evil, come with lots of emotional baggage, little of which stands up to logical scrutiny. The rhetoric of evil drags terms from old-time religion and serves the political class by oversimplifying moral and political complexity, a kind of instant moral sound bite. Is money really evil? Or all of capitalism? Or the western world as if personifies only the worst of humanity? What applies to individual morality works much less well with abstract institutions.

“When conventional politics has failed to deal with pressing problems, we have no choice but to think beyond the conventions, sometimes in ways that may seem extreme.”