Schumer’s Ugly ‘Voting Rights’ Gamble
In a Dear Colleague letter this week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warns that if Republicans refuse to support the Democrats’ unconstitutional efforts to nationalize elections, he will move to eliminate legislative checks and balances by blowing up the filibuster. “As former Senator Robert Byrd famously said, Senate Rules ‘must be changed to reflect changed […]
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Republicans Are Trying to Pass More Voting Restrictions Ahead of 2022 Midterms
After Republican legislators in 19 states passed 34 laws restricting ballot access in 2021, largely fueled by Donald Trump’s election lies, more than a half-dozen more states are gearing up to go even further ahead of this year’s midterm elections. Georgia Republicans, who passed a legislation last year in Georgia, sweeping set of restrictionsDemocrats compared […]
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WHO Says Omicron Variant Is Not “Mild” as New COVID Wave Overwhelms Hospitals
We look at the skyrocketing amount of COVID infections. This week saw record numbers of Coronavirus cases, with global cases increasing 70% to 9.5million from last week and the U.S. reporting an unprecedented 1 million cases on Monday. The extraordinary number of cases in the U.S. is filling up hospitals and exhausting healthcare workers. Dr. […]
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21 States Hike Minimum Wage as Pressure Mounts to Raise $7.25 Federal Wage Floor
More than 20 U.S. states increased their minimum wages on the first day of 2022, raises that called additional attention to the fact that the federal wage floor remains at $7.25 an hour — where it has been stuck for more than a decade. In analysis published Thursday, David Cooper, Krista Faries, and Sebastian Martinez […]
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Unemployment Falls, Wages Grow for Most Disadvantaged in Strong Jobs Report
December saw a 0.3 percentage point drop in unemployment, bringing it down to 3.9 per cent. This is lower that all but five months of the late 90s boom and the time between May 2018 and pandemic. The establishment survey revealed a slower than expected increase in 199,000 job openings, although the figures for the […]
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Skip Trip to GA Without Plan for Passing Bills
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are planning to visit Atlanta, Georgia, next week – but a coalition of voting rights organizations are telling them to stay in Washington, D.C., unless they can visit with a plan for strengthening voting protections across the U.S. In a statement from the White HouseBiden and Harris […]
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Widespread Discontent Drove Labor’s Advances in the Private Sector in 2021
2021 was a year that saw the opening of new fronts for the United States labor movement. Despite being widely disempowered and embattled, U.S. workers have taken on new responsibilities as union organizers. Both new pressures and old antagonisms are the reasons that labor militancy has exploded. The unique stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic further […]
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As Cryptocurrency Becomes Mainstream, Its Carbon Footprint Can’t Be Ignored
Advocates of cryptocurrency find the promise of a future economic system that is managed by a Blockchain (a decentralized database that is shared between nodes in a computer network as opposed to being held in one location such as a central banking institution) compelling. The rapid growth of cryptocurrency is evident to anyone who has […]
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3 of Biggest Issues Conservatives Face in 2022
We’re just one week into 2022 and already political debates are heating up in Washington over election integrity, the Senate filibuster, and spending, among other things. It’s clear that 2022 will be a significant year in the fight for American liberty. Jessica Anderson, executive director of Heritage Action for America, said that conservatives will be […]
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Fact-Checking 4 Claims From Biden’s, Harris’ Jan. 6 Speeches
Marking the one-year anniversary of the assault on the Capitol, President Joe Biden repeatedly called his predecessor, Donald Trump, a “defeated” former president who “can’t accept he lost” and referred to him as a “self-seeking autocrat.” Ahead of the president’s remarks, Vice President Kamala Harris compared the Jan. 6, 2021 riot—in which hundreds of Trump […]
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