US Tax Code Is Complicit in Helping Real Estate and Oil Tycoons Game the System
Here’s a tale of two Stephen Rosses. Real life Stephen Ross, the founder of Related Companies, a global company best known for developing the Time Warner Center in Manhattan and Hudson Yards in Manhattan was a huge winner between 2008-2017. He became the second-wealthiest real estate titan in America, almost doubling his net worth over […]
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Missouri Organizers Begin Signature Drive for Ballot Measure to Legalize Pot
Last week, organizers started a ballot initiative to make Missouri the 19th U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana use. Legal Missouri 2022The organization behind the measure,, hopes to collect enough signatures to put the initiative on the November ballot. in time for next year’s midterm elections. If passed, all adults over 21 years of age […]
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Abortion Rights Advocates Want to Hear More From Biden Than Just Euphemisms
This story was first published by The 19th. The Supreme Court appears to be poised curtail abortion rightsAccess legislation is unlikely to be codified anywhere in federal law. So some advocates for abortion access are looking to the White House to make a more forceful case — and they want the message to come from […]
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$18 Minimum Wage May Soon Be on the Ballot in California
Joe Sanberg, a progressive activist and activist, has filed a California ballot initiative to raise the state’s minimum wage from $18 an hour to $18 per hour. This could indicate that organizers in California’s nearly ten-year-old Fight for $15 movement have changed their minds. The Living Wage Act of 2022 was filed with the California […]
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Where Are the Damn PCR Tests Already? It’s Been 21 Months!
When I look back on the prior two years — if I’m around to look back — I’m going to remember these last few days as the moment I met peak frustration and bade it come sit a spell. I’m used to blaming Donald Trump when I achieve this level of aggravation, but the Biden […]
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The Criminalization of Testosterone Endangers Gender Variant People
OStann Fransisco and his family were driving home from Connecticut to New Mexico on a Saturday night in 2012. Crossing Texas, they just reached Stratford. They realized they were too tired to continue driving and pulled off the highway to rest. They saw flashing police lights as they climbed into the back seat to meet […]
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NYC’s Safe Drug Injection Sites Saved 15 Lives in First Week of Operation
At least fifteen lives have been saved, so far, after the nation’s first supervised illegal drug injection sites opened in New York City about a week ago. Clean needles, the opioid reversal medication Naloxone, and medical care are all available at these facilities. This comes at a time when the number of Americans dying from […]
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Republicans Are So Determined to Obstruct Debt Limit, They’re Bucking McConnell
Two months after Republicans permitted a vote to raise the debt ceiling to pay for spending through mid-December’s, the party is using obstructionist tactics once more to gain paltry political points. This could jeopardize the health of the entire U.S. economic system. Republicans are going to greater lengths to threaten a default on the debt […]
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Watchdogs Urge DOJ to Investigate Legality of Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Venture
Financial industry watchdogs have asked federal officials to stop the Facebook cryptocurrency pilot program. They point out that the U.S. government has power to criminally prosecute executives who operate the venture. The Open Markets Institute sent a note on November 23 to numerous regulatory agencies and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), saying the omnipresent […]
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Oil and Gas Industry Profits Climbed as Americans Faced High Gas Prices in 2021
The first nine months of 2021 saw a boom in profits for the fossil fuel industry, which rakes in tens and billions of dollar as Americans face a rise in gas prices. A new report by Accountable.US shows that 24 top oil and gas companies made $174 billion in profits between January and September, lining […]
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