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Gary Cohen, former CEO Goldman Sachs addressing new members of Congress today: "You guys are way over your head, you don't know how the game is played." No Gary, YOU don't know what's coming - a revolutionary Congress that puts people over profits. https://t.co/ZLML2qzAW6
Our “bipartisan” Congressional orientation is cohosted by a corporate lobbyist group. Other members have quietly expressed to me their concern that this wasn’t told to us in advance. Lobbyists are here. Goldman Sachs is here. Where‘s labor? Activists?Frontline community leaders?
Vet @will_c_fischer explains PRIVATIZATION: “It's a fancy way of saying we’re taking tax dollars out of the VA & putting it into the pockets of millionaires & billionaires" It's up to us to defend the VA, USPS & more from being sold off to the highest bidder. #ThursdayThoughts
Medicare for All: As Healthcare Costs Soar, Momentum Grows to Guarantee Healthcare for All Americans https://t.co/4KpxmRKHf7
✅ FACT: Americans spend the most per person on health care, twice as much as other wealthy nations. ✅ FACT: The US ranks 64th in the world in life-expectancy. 🤔 How can both be true? We have a for-profit health care system. 🤔 The solution? Nurses say: #MedicareForAll!
“Workplace organizing helps level inequality in wages and working conditions, and women and workers of color would benefit the most from unionization.” #WednesdayWisdom https://t.co/KpXW8mwxYd
Corporations don’t need tax breaks. 👉🏼14,700 jobs are being cut by General Motors despite making billions in profit. 👉🏼Over the past decade, the company has received billions in tax breaks and subsidies from both Canada and the U.S. https://t.co/91yrcs2kFA
🤑 @Ascensionorg profit: $1.6 BILLION 🤑 CEO salary: $17.6 MILLION 🙏 Ascension’s MISSION: "Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons w/ special attention to those who are poor & vulnerable." #SaveProvidence #UnionStrong #1u
"The reality is, these idyllic images of Thanksgiving are increasingly out of touch with the lived reality of so many Americans, who are working harder than ever and struggling more than ever to afford life’s basic needs." @JosephNSanberg https://t.co/4Wf4lVORs1
"If Walmart can afford $20 billion for stock buybacks it can afford to pay its workers a living wage," said @RoKhanna , who is introducing the bill in the House. https://t.co/iyI8xF3ZG9
Who's down for a "Day Off for Democracy?"
All Americans should have an equal opportunity to vote on Election Day.
Dedicated to all those still fighting for the franchise in 2018.
Roughly 40 black seniors were told to get off a bus organized to take them to cast their votes.
It's time to reverse this trend by taxing Wall Street and investing in healthcare and education for all.
Remember this when Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan and their friends talk about how they want to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to balance the budget. The government ran a $779 billion deficit in FY2018, but it would have run a surplus of $156 billion if Republicans' "fiscal responsibility" strategy hadn't gotten us into two wars and given multiple rounds of tax breaks to rich people and massive corporations. ... See more
It's time for corporate America to pay their fair share. Tax Wall Street!
The fight against Amazon continues. Time to end corporate welfare!
In Schodack, a local group filed a lawsuit to stop a proposed fulfillment center, even as town officials support the project
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