Author Archive: Web Steward
National Labor Relations Board To Prosecute Walmart For Violating Workers’ Rights
credit ap BY Bryce Covert November 18, 2013 AT 3:01 PM The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency that protects workers’ rights to organize and demand better conditions, will announce a decision today to prosecute Walmart for violating workers’ rights by firing, disciplining, and threatening workers who went on strike or attempted to […]
Continue readingPrecinct Voter Analysis
Precinct Voter Analysis Saturday, December 7th 1-2:30PM Precinct Committee members and other interested Democrats, please join us: This is an opportunity to review the voting data from 2012, learn lessons from the CCC loss, and develop our 2014 election strategy. Our ground game will win us this election and we must start now! Precinct […]
Continue reading"Lockup Quotas," "Low-crime Taxes," and the For-Profit Prison Industry
Donald Cohen In 2012, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest for-profit prison company in the country, sent a letter to 48 state governors offering to buy their public prisons. CCA offered to buy and operate state prisons in exchange for a 20-year contract, which would include a 90 percent occupancy rate guarantee for the […]
Continue readingState representative stands by her comparison of Obama to Hitler
By Hank Stephenson – Arizona Capitol Times Published: October 7, 2013 at 3:28 pm Republican Rep. Brenda Barton of Payson compared President Barack Obama to Adolph Hitler on her Facebook page today in a post urging county sheriffs to revoke authority from the National Parks Service “thugs” who are enforcing the federal shutdown on […]
Continue readingThe Real Problem with the IRS
One charge to the IRS is to screen applications by groups for a special tax-exempt status coupled with donor anonymity. This is done within the IRS by civil servants working with lawyers who interpret the murky laws on criteria for this special tax exempt status. Working under 30 years of budget cuts and outdated computing […]
Continue readingBring Back the WPA
Reprinted with permission Featured Article: Bring Back the WPABy Stephen Seufert “The overwhelming majority of unemployed Americans, who are now walking the streets and receiving private or public relief, would infinitely prefer to work.” FDR, 1933 It may seem hard to believe, but back in the 1930s the Federal government put Americans to work […]
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