MORNING MESSAGE: Time Is Running Out To Stop Student Loan Rate Hikes OurFuture.org’s Jane Yurechko: “The rates for federally-backed student Stafford loans will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1. And what has Congress done to help these already struggling students? Absolutely nothing … The House has managed to pass a bill, [...]
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For an estimated 4 million people, including about 210,000 schoolchildren, the farm bill the House is scheduled to start debating today could mean they will be going hungry a lot more often. That has promoted organizations such as Half in 10 and the Food Research and Action Center to organize a National Call-In Day to [...]
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The Farm Bill that is expected to pass the U.S. House this week explains income inequality in America. The Republican-sponsored proposal slashes food stamps for poor children and pads farm subsidies for wealthy agri-businessmen. This comes just a week after Senate Republicans refused to protect the poorest students from doubled college loan interest rates because [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: We Need a New Deal for Millennials OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “Studies show that unemployment at the start of a career lowers lifetime earnings. We need to end our youth unemployment crisis now with a Millennial WPA that jumpstarts their careers, and our economy, the way the Works Progress Administration did under Franklin D. [...]
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What kind of society abandons its own young? What kind of society allows the generations in power to favor themselves over those who follow them, and then lets them claim they’re doing it out of selflessness? Look around you. This weekend we reviewed nine ways an extreme-right right social agenda has harmed the millennial generation. [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: 9 Ways the Randian State Is An Assault on Millennials OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “The right, along with its ‘centrist’ collaborators, is transforming our nation into a bloodless and soulless Randian State. Their decades-long assault on our core social values is on the verge of consuming its first complete generation of Americans. Born at [...]
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Conservatives keep claiming liberals want a “cradle-to-grave nanny state.” That rhetoric has distracted us from the real social re-engineering taking place all around us. The right, along with its “centrist” collaborators, is transforming our nation into a bloodless and soulless Randian State. Their decades-long assault on our core social values is on the verge of [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: NC State Senator Calls ‘Moral Monday’ Protesters ‘Moral Morons’ OurFuture.org’s Dave Johnson: “Since April, North Carolina citizens have been gathering at the state capital in Raleigh for ‘Moral Monday’ Arrests … What’s going on? Republicans took over and started enacting severe, cruel policies against the poor and minorities, while giving tax cuts to [...]
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“The appeal for each Moral Monday has been the same: urging legislators to govern for the good of the whole, rather than for the wealthy.” — Rev. William Barber. Since April, North Carolina citizens have been gathering at the state capital in Raleigh for “Moral Monday” rallies and acts of civil disobedience to protest the [...]
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Starting today, Massachusetts Rep. James McGovern is joining the state’s Health and Human Services Secretary John Polanowicz and other Massachusetts officials in the “SNAP challenge.” For the next seven days, they are going to be living off a food budget of $31.50, the average weekly benefit received by an individual in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance [...]
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