“People across the country—and across party lines—want corporate giants and their enablers held to account,” says advocacy group, citing fresh survey data. With inflation running rampant in the United States and the Biden administration scrambling for a solution to what’s become a major political and economic crisis, new polling data and swing-state focus group results shared exclusively with Common […]
“Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chair of the House panel investigating the Capitol attack. “January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.” The previously unseen video footage, testimony, and documentary evidence presented during a primetime U.S. House hearing Thursday night made the case that the January […]
Amazon, which has reported $10.3 billion in recent federal contracts, paid CEO Andy Jassy 6,474 times more than it paid its median worker last year. As ordinary workers across the United States watched inflation eat away at modest wage gains in 2021, many corporations—including firms contracting with the federal government—used record-shattering profits to lavish their CEOs […]
An updated list of violations by members of Congress arrives as an outright ban remains stuck in both chambers. A running tally updated Tuesday shows that more than 60 members of Congress have recently violated a federal law aimed at preventing insider trading, a finding that comes as proposals to bar federal lawmakers from trading stocks […]