Wednesday, January 17, 2024

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'Call Your Representative!' House Panel to Take Up Backdoor Attack on Social Security

"This commission is a poison pill designed to slash Social Security and Medicare behind closed doors."

By Jake Johnson
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With Overdraft Fee Crackdown, 'CFPB Is Doing What It Was Designed to Do'

"The CFPB is proposing clear, enforceable rules that will reduce overdraft fees and save Americans billions, closing another lucrative regulatory loophole banks use to prey on consumers," said one advocate.

By Brett Wilkins
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Global Cooperation Key to Preventing 'Runaway' Climate and AI Chaos: UN Chief

"Geopolitical divides are preventing us from coming together around global solutions for global challenges," said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.

By Julia Conley
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Republicans Put US Species on 'Direct Path to Extinction' With Poison Pill Riders

A Center for Biological Diversity found 27 anti-wildlife measures in FY 2024 appropriations bills, the most since the Endangered Species Act was passed 50 years ago.

By Olivia Rosane
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Supreme Court Hears Koch-Backed Cases Designed to Unleash Deregulatory Bonanza

"Everything from the climate to consumer safety could be worse off thanks to this potential decision and the corporate lobbyists who brought us to this point."

By Jake Johnson
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Millionaires and Billionaires to Davos Elites: 'We Must Be Taxed More'

"Even millionaires and billionaires like me are saying it's time," said Abigail Disney. "The elites gathering in Davos must take this crisis seriously."

By Jake Johnson
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Lawmakers Cannot Miss This Chance to Expand the Child Tax Credit

Poverty is a policy choice by lawmakers with warped priorities. Now they have a chance to choose better, if only modestly.

By Clara Moore
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Will the US Choose Democracy or Extreme Wealth Concentration?

This year’s election will not only decide whether we’re going to let Trump or a similar Republican end American democracy; it will also, if enough of us show up, determine if we can purge our political system of big money.

By Thom Hartmann
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In Gaza, the West Is Enabling the Most Transparent Genocide in Human History

This is extraordinary because the states supporting Israel, above all the United States, have claimed the high moral and legal ground and lectured the states of the Global South about the importance of the rule of law.

By Richard Falk
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