Lawmakers in Ohio and Wisconsin are pushing to allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work longer hours as exorbitantly wealthy corporations pay their adult employees less than $15 per hour on average. Months into the United States’ so-called “labor shortage”—which progressives and economists have repeatedly said is actually the result of weak worker protections during the coronavirus pandemic […]
“We are taking on the big-money interests who have an army of lobbyists trying to defeat Medicare for All.” Documents obtained by the Washington Post Monday showed that lobbyists helped three state lawmakers draft op-eds this year attacking Medicare for All, a revelation Sen. Bernie Sanders highlighted as further evidence that the healthcare industry is “terrified” of the push […]
U.S. President Donald Trump is headed Wednesday to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, where gunmen shot and killed a combined 31 people last weekend, two cities where many residents who blame the president’s rhetoric for fomenting the violence are urging him to stay away. White House officials said Trump’s visits would be similar […]
WASHINGTON – A pair of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over Saturday and Sunday have dragged two of the most divisive issues in American politics — the rise of violent white supremacism and gun control — to the forefront of public conversation as politicians across the ideological spectrum are preparing for what […]