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Facing Eviction? Here’s How We Turn Rent Debts Into Leverage for Change.

While COVID-19 numbers fluctuate, we are constantly surrounded by calls. Get back to normal But for household debtors, pre-pandemic “normal” was already a crisis. Even before COVID 68 million Americans owned a home. debt in collections. Between 2009-2020, unpaid medical expenses grew to the largest source of unpaid debt18% of Americans owe $140 Billion in […]

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CEOs Are Driving “Greedflation,” Raising Prices to Pay Themselves More

The AFL-CIO’s latest annual analysis of top executive pay was published Monday with the following conclusion: “CEOs, not working people, are causing inflation.” Recent months have seen corporate bossesTop Federal Reserve officials have pointed to workers’ wages as a factor in surging prices, which have pushed overall inflation in the United States to a four-decade […]

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Government response to blood contamination scandal ‘wholly inadequate and insulting’

Paymaster general Michael Ellis’ response to Dame Diana Johnson’s urgent question on the blood contamination scandal was labelled by the chair of the home affairs select committee as “wholly inadequate and insulting”. Ellis insisted that delays over interim payments were due to the government’s desire to “get it right”. Shadow cabinet minister Fleur Anderson applied […]

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Kemi Badenoch out of Tory race

More to come Politics.co.uk first published the post Kemi badenoch out of Tory races

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Labour accuses government of ‘running away from scrutiny’ on Australia trade

In an urgent question, trade under-secretary Ranil Jayawardena came under fire for “ministers running away from scrutiny” on the UK-Australia trade deal. This criticism comes after no time being made available for a debate on the first new trade agreement” since leaving the EU. Jayawardena rejected the criticism, telling MPs that there will have been […]

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Johnson withdraws whip from Tobias Ellwood

Tobias Ellwood has had the Conservative party’s whip withdrawn by the prime minister after he abstained in yesterday’s confidence vote. The Bournemouth MP is a long-time critic of Boris Johnson, having repeatedly urged him to resign earlier this year, following the “Partygate” revelations. He voted against Johnson in last month’s vote of confidence among Tory […]

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Omar Calls for Manchin to Be Removed From Role as Chair of Energy Committee

Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democratic Representative from Minnesota, called for a conservative coal baron and other measures on Sunday. climate obstructorSen. Joe Manchin (D. West Virginia), to be removed as the Chair of the powerful Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Interview with MSNBC, Omar reminded viewersProgressive lawmakers had warned All through negotiationsFor the Build […]

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No clear frontrunner as Tory leadership race narrows

Following last night’s elimination of Tom Tugendhat from the race for the Conservative leadership, the remaining four candidates continue to vie for MP support ahead of tonight’s further vote. In this evening’s vote, MPs will whittle down the remaining four candidates to three. The Tonbridge-Malling MP polled 31 votes. Former chancellor Rishi Unak continued to […]

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How the Left Seeks to Take Control of Local Election Offices

Two large-scale liberal organizations with $80 million in each are looking to control elections in the future.  “The overall objective of the political left is to change the way you conduct overall elections,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, which advocates clean elections, told The Daily Signal.  One of the two liberal […]

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Expert-Moderated Candidates Debates Aim to Sidestep ‘Reportorial Bias’

Are the days of journalist-led debates about political candidates over? If the Epoch Times’ new debate format takes root, they just might be.  Aimed at avoiding accusations of “reportorial bias” in the traditional debate format, the Epoch Times has created a type of debate where single-issue experts and scholars—rather than journalists with clear or potential political biases—pose questions to […]

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