Writing for Mother Jones, Kevin Drum first cites USC’s Edward Kleinbard: Now let’s put the three taxes together. Starting with $100 of pretax firm-level gross income available to pay salaries, the employee receives $91 in wages, and the firm pays $9 in "business flat tax." The employee then pays $8.19[Read More…]
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Sierra Club: Rick Perry’s Energy Plan: Wheeze, Baby Wheeze
Plan Would Poison Water and Air; Ratchet Up Rates of Asthma, Heart Disease, Birth Defects Pittsburgh–(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2011. Today, Texas Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry unveiled his energy plan for America. The plan, if implemented, will poison our air and water with toxic pollutants like soot, smog, arsenic,[Read More…]
SEIU: Additional Cuts to Medicaid Would Further Endanger African Americans and Latinos Battling Chronic Disease
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2011. Dr. L. Toni Lewis, Healthcare Chair of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement after the release of a new report from Families USA detailing how healthcare services funded by Medicaid are essential to African American and Latinos living with serious diseases. “Today’s[Read More…]
CAP Experts Dismantle the Right’s Alarmist Rhetoric Around High-Performing Students
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2011. Today the Center for American Progress released a column dismantling claims that federal school accountability efforts are hurting our nation’s best and brightest students. A recent report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute claimed that the nation’s efforts to close achievement gaps by focusing on improving[Read More…]
Tax Cuts for the Wealthiest 5% of Americans Cost the U.S. Treasury $11.6 million every hour
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- This in today from Jo Comerford, Executive Director of the National Prioriteis Project, on how much the Bush tax cuts are harming the nation’s economy: National Priorities Project, with support from Citizens for Tax Justice, has launched www.costoftaxcuts.com. A rolling counter depicts the amount of money lost to[Read More…]
Meltdown: After the Fall (Video)
The fourth and final part of Al Jazeera’s Meltdown, "After the Fall." Excellent, excellent, excellent.
Meltdown: Paying the Price (Video)
Part three of Al Jazeera’s Meltdown, "Paying the Price." Excellent, excellent, excellent.
Meltdown: A Global Financial Tsunami (Video)
Part two of Al Jazeera’s Meltdown, "A Global Financial Tsunami." Excellent, excellent, excellent.
Meltdown: The Men Who Crashed The World (Vidoe)
Part one of Al Jazeera’s Meltdown, "The Men Who Crashed the World." Excellent, excellent, excellent.
House Passes ‘Let Women Die’ Bill
H.R.358 is the seventh anti-choice measure to pass the House since January of this year Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 13, 2011. Today, Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, called the House passage of the “Let Women Die” bill, otherwise known as H.R.358, yet another reminder of how playing politics with women’s[Read More…]
