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Pelosi Visits Arizona – Delivers Message on Taxes and Deficit
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi visited Arizona this week to deliver this message: The GOP plan couldn’t be clearer: Explode the deficit by passing a Tax Scam that puts the wealthiest first Pretend to panic about the [...]
A Gentle Reminder to the Middle Class About the Cost of Health Insurance
We're reading that some hard-working people are building up resentment because their health insurance premiums have sky-rocketed this year while those who qualify for Medicaid or ACA subsidies don't have to pay these increased premiums. Here's our [...]
Republicans’ Half-Baked Food Box Proposal Would Hurt the Poor, our State Budget, and Local Economies
Republicans backing Trump's new food stamps plan have failed to do their research. (SNAP — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — is the official name for the food stamp programs.) The plan cuts more than $200 billion [...]
Budgeting Gone Wild: Midterm Elections Matter
This is how the federal government's budgeting and spending is supposed to work Federal Budget Process, National Priorities Project: In November, December, and early January, the Executive Branch creates a proposed budget for the next fiscal year, which [...]
Update on Sylvia Allen’s View of Morality
State Senator Sylvia Allen (R) says its "immoral" to give workers 3 paid days of sick leave and a minimum wage, but it's A-Okay to take money from public schools for private charters like the one she [...]
Charter schools bilk you, dump kids and … Republican lawmakers don’t care
Even though they get your tax dollars, Charter Schools don’t have to share financial information or be monitored by the state like regular public schools. They don’t have to disclose how much they pay their administrators, or anyone else. There is [...]