Robert Reich On The Trump Economy

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WMC Proposes New Socialist Programs

The WMC (aka Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Foundation) is a conservative and very successful business lobbying group who have found ready accomplices in former Governor Scott Walker, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald over the past several years. Despite supporting the various business tax cuts provided…

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Why Isn’t This Income Inequity An Issue?

A baseball player…let me repeat that…a baseball player…and I love baseball…is going to be paid $300 million over 10 years: On Tuesday, we found out: a 10-year, $300 million contract for Manny Machado to play for the San Diego Padres, a small-market, low-spending team that lost 96 games last season…

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Kimberly-Clark Didn’t Get The Memo!

Today international paper products manufacturer, Kimberly-Clark, announced that it may close up to 10 plants worldwide and reduce their workforce by 5,500 people. Despite having plants in 35 different countries and I would assume markets in far more…they are blaming the slow growth rate in the United States as part…

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Trump Reveals Lie Around Tax Cuts

To use a currently popular phrase…those of you who are woke about the Trump Tax Cuts already know this but from the president himself as he signed the Tax Cut bill: But along the way, Trump basically admitted that the GOP’s talking points on the bill weren’t exactly honest in…

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Trump’s Take on 2017!

Not a bad year Under President Donald J. Trump, nearly 1.7 million new jobs have been created. 159,000 jobs have been added in the manufacturing industry. Another 57,000 have been created in mining and logging. The unemployment rate is its lowest in nearly 17 years. And GDP growth topped 3…

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Ignorance of Nepotism: Ivanka Trump Edition

During an interview on Fox and Friends following the passage of the Trump Tax Cut legislation, Ivanka Trump just flat out proved she has not idea what’s going on: …Trump talked about traversing the country around Tax Day to witness the reviews for herself. “I’m really looking forward to doing…

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