Hope for Unions

What follows is based on a piece published to private subscribers by Nobel Laureate Economist Paul Krugman. Joe Biden gave a speech on Sunday that could be a beacon of light for unions after forty-plus years in darkness. He spoke via video expressing solidarity with Amazon workers in Alabama, who are attempting to unionize one of the […]

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Happy Birthday, CFPB!

Ten years ago today, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act into law, creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It had been a long, tough fight, in the wake of the financial crisis — and it’s important that we never forget what brought us to that fight. Like so many of our nation’s problems, the financial […]

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Flashback Quote of the Day

“We are not prepared for a pandemic. Trump has rolled back progress President Obama and I made to strengthen global health security. We need leadership that builds public trust, focuses on real threats, and mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our shores.” — Joe Biden, on Twitter, October 25, 2019.

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Postal Service Is Fundamental to Democracy

Trump  calls the U.S. Postal Service “a joke.” Washington and Jefferson would disagree. Like with most things, this president has his history wrong. Since the founding of our country, the Postal Service has been as serious and as fundamental to our democracy as it gets. A recent New York Times article embraced by Joe Biden […]

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