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| Aug 7, 2026 | Khanna Data Center Bill of Rights: Communities Get Congress’s Backing, Not Its Law | By Ryan Cook
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| Mar 17, 2026 | More than 576,000 student loan borrowers in backlog for affordable repayment plans, court filing shows | The Trump administration reported this week that 576,609 borrowers’ requests for an income-driven repayment plan were still pending with the Education Department as of the end of February.
Another 88,170 federal student loan borrowers are w... |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Trump Says He’s Just Going To Make Some Shit Up To Justify Nationalizing The Election Process | Trump couldn’t accept the fact that he lost the 2020 election. So he stood idly by (if you believe his narrative) or urged on (if you believe your own eyes and ears) his supporters to raid the Capitol building to seize the election from the... |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Gender pay gap in the U.S. widens for the first time in 20 years | Photo credit: ERA Coalition
Women’s lost earnings due to pay inequality amounts to $1.7 trillion in 2023. How will the next administration address this stark gender inequality?
The absence of constitutional safeguards means that women in th... |
| Jan 13, 2024 | Lobbyist money pours into TX-07 Democratic Primary against Pervez Agwan | United for Change: Team Agwan Stands Against Lobbyist Influence in TX-07 Race
Agwan challenges foreign lobbyist funding in TX-07 Primary, opposing DMFI's support for Fletcher and advocating for transparency in campaign financing
DMFI and AI... |
| Nov 24, 2023 | Opinion Columnists | Opinion: Farrah Hassen: Americans want a ceasefire. It’s our politicians who are out of touch. | By Farrah Hassen
Two years ago, filmmaker Mohannad Abu Rizk asked children in Gaza about their dreams. One young girl responded, “My dream is for us to stay alive and to live in peace. We have a right to stay alive.”
She’s one of the 2.2 mi... |
| Nov 7, 2023 | Democrats' dilemma: Biden's agenda is popular, but he is not | United StatesDemocrats' dilemma: Biden's agenda is popular, but he is not
By Jarrett RenshawNovember 7, 20234:51 PM UTCUpdated ago
U.S. President Joe Biden steps from Marine One upon his return to the White House in Washington, U.S., Novemb... |
| Oct 26, 2023 | The Speaker Fiasco And The Future Of U.S. Security | After weeks of chaos, the House of Representatives has finally chosen a speaker. Immediately following his selection, the new Republican leader, Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, focused squarely on the need to bolster America’s role in the w... |
| Sep 24, 2023 | The American Climate Corps Will Put Thousands To Work Building A Stronger Country | Ninety years ago, President Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps put millions of Americans to work building a stronger country, confronting the biggest crisis of its time – the Great Depression. |
| Sep 17, 2023 | Broadway Ticketing Wars Heat Up As Nederlander Nixes Ticketmaster | Atmosphere outside the Lena Horne Theatre on December 23, 2020 (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Sep 14, 2023 | The EPA Rejected Calls for Tougher Water Pollution Regulations at US Factory Farms – Now, It’s Being Sued | 5 Mins Read Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied a 2017 petition calling for stricter water pollution regulations for factory farms. The agency formed a research committee to recommend solutions in a process that cou... |
| Aug 19, 2023 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Charles Brennan: Current minimum wage falls woefully short for Boulder County families | By Charles Brennan
What is the minimum a person should earn per hour of work? Created by the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA), the intent of the minimum wage is to “maintain the purchasing power of wages in order to promote the general ... |
| May 18, 2023 | US Republican transgender laws pile up, setting 2024 battle lines | United States
5 minute readMay 18, 202310:45 AM UTCLast Updated agoUS Republican transgender laws pile up, setting 2024 battle lines
By Daniel Trotta
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis holds up his pen while signing five state house bills into l... |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Senator Nikil Saval Joins Lehigh Valley Community in Call for Permanent Funding for Whole-Home Repairs | ALLENTOWN, PA (April 19)—Yesterday State Senator Nikil Saval (D–Philadelphia) joined Lehigh Valley Stands Up, Make the Road Pennsylvania, POWER Interfaith, Community Action Lehigh Valley, Sunrise Movement, and Berks County elected officials... |
| Apr 18, 2023 | This Billionaire Tax Is Pro-Growth—And Common Sense | America's ship requires proper capital.getty |
| Mar 11, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Linda Benesch: Inequality costs Social Security trillions. Here’s how we fix it. | By Linda Benesch
Is your salary less than $160,200?
If so, you’re among the 94% of American workers who pay into Social Security all year long. Thanks to a loophole that exclusively benefits the affluent, income above that amount simply isn... |
| Mar 4, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Domenica Ghanem: This women’s history month, we won’t renegotiate our place in the economy | By Domenica Ghanem
A lot has changed since 2011, the year I graduated high school. Tiktok was invented, there are now 12 Kardashian grandchildren, and I’m about to turn 30. But some things never change.
Back then, at the height of the Tea P... |
| Mar 3, 2023 | Progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal says Biden is 'very, very interested' in getting more workers overtime pay | Rep. Pramila Jayapal Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
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Progressives have been calling for more than doubling the overtime eligibility threshold for workers.
Now a key progressive leader says President Joe Biden is "very, very int... |
| Nov 12, 2022 | Звездный Десантис | Прошедшие 8 ноября промежуточные выборы в США подтвердили давно напрашивающийся вывод: действующий и бывший президенты — 80-летний Джо Байден и 76-летний Дональд Трамп — совсем не те политики, которых Америка хотела бы видеть ключевыми канд... |
| Nov 4, 2022 | On the ballot in the US midterms: Economy | Nathan Rojas, 23, lives in Georgia, United States and drives daily from his parents’ home to his job. Rising gas prices this year have made his commute a struggle.
“Not everybody can work from home,” Rojas said. “Gas isn’t a privilege, it’s... |
| Sep 30, 2022 | Americans making $36,000 or more a year don't qualify for overtime. Biden could fix that right now. | "If you prevent people from turning three 40-hour week jobs into two 60-hour week jobs, you can create a lot of jobs in an economy of our size," Nick Hanauer, a host on the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast, said on a recent... |
| Sep 3, 2022 | Democrats have yet to prioritize universal childcare and paid leave, and it's hurting mothers, children, and the economy | Childcare and paid-leave policies are popular with voters, yet they haven't been priorities for the Biden administration. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for PL+US
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| Jul 14, 2022 | Senators Ask FTC to Investigate TikTok for Deceptive Conduct Regarding Chinese Access to U.S. User Data | TikTok has come under renewed congressional scrutiny for allegedly deceptive data privacy practices. Despite TikTok’s repeated promises to safeguard U.S. user data from access by its Chinese parent company, a BuzzFeed report broke that TikT... |
| May 24, 2022 | New Study Shows More Than Three-Quarters of PA Voters Support Bipartisan Whole-Home Repairs Act | Philadelphia, PA − May 24, 2022 − Today, Senator Nikil Saval (D–Philadelphia County) held a rally attended by more than 200 housing and energy advocates, community leaders, Pennsylvania residents, and Democrat and Republican legislators fro... |
| May 11, 2022 | Americans Support Access to the Full Range of Reproductive Health Care; Reject Republican Attempts to Overturn Roe v. Wade | On May 2nd, POLITICO reported a leaked draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that indicated the Court intends to overturn Roe v. Wade. This impending decision poses a danger to women, overturns decades of precedent, and would potentiall... |
| Apr 25, 2022 | Questions About DAC? We’ve Got Answers | Technicians inspect the direct air capture system at the Carbon Engineering Ltd. pilot facility in ... [+] Squamish, British Columbia, Canada, on Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. The benefits of direct-air-capture technology is that countries can stil... |
| Jan 31, 2022 | Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has a higher approval rating among Republicans than Democrats in Arizona: poll | Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona at the Capitol on December 15, 2021. Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s approval rating is higher among Republicans than Democrats in Arizona.
According to Mor... |
| Dec 15, 2021 | A majority of voters agreed with student-loan borrowers in a survey: Payments should not resume in 48 days while the pandemic is still ongoing | College graduate sitting outside. Sean de Burca/Getty Images
A Data for Progress survey found 55% of voters support extending the student-loan payment pause past Feb. 1.
70% of voters also expressed support for the pause that began in March... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Progressives call on Justice Stephen Breyer to retire amid McConnell’s threats to block future Supreme Court nominees | Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell; Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
Progressives are calling on Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire.
“For the go... |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Plummeting Wind, Solar, And Battery Costs Now Enable An 80% Clean Electricity System By 2030 | President Biden has a rare opportunity to act on climate with maximum political capital from the 2020 election, bipartisan support for a clean energy recovery from the COVID-induced economic crisis, and the imperative of meeting his announc... |
| May 24, 2021 | 58% of voters support passing Biden’s $4 trillion infrastructure plan without any Republican votes, poll finds | President Joe Biden. Melina Mara/The Washington Post via AP, Pool
A Data for Progress poll found the majority of voters support using reconciliation to pass infrastructure.
It also found that 68% of voters support reforming the corporate ta... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | Voters support paying for infrastructure with taxes, especially a tax on the wealthy, poll says | President Joe Biden unveils part of his infrastructure plan in Pittsburgh on March 31. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
A Morning Consult/Politico poll finds voters support paying for a $3 trillion package with tax hikes.
The voters polled, incl... |
| Mar 22, 2021 | Elizabeth Warren and AOC want to spend $500 billion to create 1 million green infrastructure jobs | Sen. Elizabeth Warren. GREG NASH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Progressives unveiled a bill that would invest $US500 ($646) billion over 10 years on green infrastructure.
The bill focuses on reducing carbon emissions while creating 1 million ne... |
| Mar 6, 2021 | America’s crumbling infrastructure has become a global laughingstock. A new government agency could fix it – here’s how. | A worker pulls on a floating solar array that feeds into the power supply of a water treatment plant in Colorado. AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post/Getty Images
Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and a frequent cohost of the “Pitchfo... |
| Jan 26, 2021 | Nine Questions for the Capitol Insurrection Commission | In the days since the Jan. 6 insurrection, calls have proliferated for a national commission to report on the riot and its attendant events. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that there is “strong interest” among members of Congre... |
| Jan 20, 2021 | Walt Disney : 2021 Proxy Statement | 2021
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF
SHAREHOLDERS AND PROXY STATEMENT
Letter to the Shareholders
JANUARY 19, 2021
Dear Fellow Shareholder,
Over the past year, The Walt Disney Company has navigated the most difficult environment we have experien... |
| Jan 20, 2021 | WALT DISNEY COMPANY (THE)
Walt Disney : 2021 Proxy Statement | 2021
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF
SHAREHOLDERS AND PROXY STATEMENT
Letter to the Shareholders
JANUARY 19, 2021
Dear Fellow Shareholder,
Over the past year, The Walt Disney Company has navigated the most difficult environment we have experien... |
| Jan 14, 2021 | What Can Democrats Achieve On Climate In The U.S. Congress? | WILMINGTON, DE - DECEMBER 19: President-elect Joe Biden announces members of his climate and energy ... [+] appointments at the Queen theater on December 19, 2020 in Wilmington, DE. Biden announced his climate and energy team that will adva... |
| Dec 7, 2020 | Biden Reportedly “Considering” Cancelling Student Debt Through Executive Action | WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - DECEMBER 04: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks on November job numbers at ... [+] the Queen theater December 4, 2020 Wilmington, Delaware. U.S. economy added 245,000 jobs in November and pushed the unemployment ra... |
| Nov 14, 2020 | ‘Defund my butt’: Democrats battle over left-wing policy demands even as they agree Biden should focus on the economy and healthcare | Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks to media during a census outreach event ahead of the census deadline in The Bronx, New York City Andrew Kelly/Reuters
As the Democratic Party processes its devastating losses in down-ballot race... |
| Nov 9, 2020 | Could Biden Cancel Some Student Debt Through Executive Action? | WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - NOVEMBER 07: President-elect Joe Biden and Jill Biden wave to the crowd ... [+] after Biden's address to the nation from the Chase Center November 07, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. After four days of counting the high... |
| Nov 7, 2020 | Biden Will Take a Clear Climate Mandate Into the White House
Biden Will Take a Clear Climate Mandate Into the White House | (Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden will take office with something no U.S. president has had before: robust popular support for climate action, borne out in polling data and election results from a hard-fought campaign.
“His mandate to go all in on c... |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Climate Is Driving Voting More Than You Might Think, Especially For Women | Activist outside the Congress (Photo by Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images |
| Oct 6, 2020 | Further Student Loan And Unemployment Relief In Doubt After Trump Stops All Stimulus Negotiations | WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 05: U.S. President Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White ... [+] House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spent three days hospitalized fo... |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Despite warning about federal government overreach, militia groups are quiet amid crackdown in US cities | Protesters rally at the State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, April 30, 2020. Paul Sancya/AP
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| Aug 4, 2020 | Nancy Pelosi says Democrats are pushing to keep the $600 federal unemployment benefit while the jobless rate remains high | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats were pushing to keep the $600 federal unemployment benefit while the jobless rate is high.
"If the unemployment goes down, then that number can go down," Pelosi told CNN on Monday.
Economi... |
| Jul 1, 2020 | $600 Weekly Unemployment Boost Extension Proposed By Senate Democrats | Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has proposed an extension to the weekly unemployment ... [+] benefits boost.Getty Images |
| Jun 10, 2020 | The Green New Deal: What It Is, How It Plans To Fight Climate Change & Why It Matters | 1
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| Mar 3, 2020 | Super Tuesday: Here Are The States To Watch For A Biden Bounce | Pumped up: Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden galvanizes the ... [+] crowd at a primary rally in South Carolina Saturday, February 29, 2020. Gerald Herbert/AP Photo |
| Mar 3, 2020 | New polls: Joe Biden gets bump in Colorado, other Super Tuesday states | A new poll out Tuesday morning shows Joe Biden getting a 8-point lift with Colorado voters following his big South Carolina win, though still trailing Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Mike Bloomberg also picked up support in the Democra... |
| Feb 27, 2020 | Colorado primary poll: Bernie Sanders leads Democrats; Elizabeth Warren is No. 2 | U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders leads the Democratic presidential field by 14 percentage points in Colorado, according to a new poll out Wednesday.
He was supported by 34% of 471 likely primary voters polled, followed by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren... |
| Jul 2, 2018 | The More People Vote, the More Progressives Win | The Republican-controlled Supreme Court, empowered by a seat stolen when GOP senators blocked Merrick Garland’s nomination in 2016, has been working hard to give the Republican Party electoral wins, even before Anthony Kennedy's retirement.... |
| Apr 24, 2018 | Democrats Aren't Pushing This Popular Policy That Would Raise Wages | A mere 6 percent of Americans support cuts to Social Security. That compares to about 16 percent who believe that bigfoot is real. Though nearly no regular people want to slash the popular benefit program, Social Security is constantly besi... |
| Mar 29, 2018 | Racial Resentment Is in the NRA's DNA, Data Finds | The NRA is nominally a gun rights organization, but in recent years it’s swerved toward embracing a hardline version of conservatism, with all the racial ugliness that that entails. The NRA famously refused to speak out about the 2017 death... |
| The real reason Joe Manchin is sabotaging the US clean energy plan | Coal investor US Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV) opposes his own political party’s clean energy program. And since not a single Republican will support the infrastructure bill that contains the program, Manchin has disproportionate power to ... |
| USPS is trying to greenwash its plan to spend billions on gas guzzlers | The USPS issued a “record of decision” today stating that it has finished its environmental review and responded to the EPA’s concerns and will go through with its plan to spend up to $11.3 billion on gas-guzzling, 8.6 mile-per-gallon vehic... |
| The real reason Joe Manchin is sabotaging the US clean energy plan [update] | Coal investor and US Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV) opposes his own political party’s clean energy program. And since not a single Republican will support the infrastructure bill that contains the program, Manchin has disproportionate power... |
| How are US special interests undermining climate action? | On Monday, April 18 at 19:30 GMT:
The United States is one of the world’s most populous democracies, but it is also its second-biggest carbon polluter – and climate action advocates are alarmed at the unchecked influence of well-funded US l... |
| 58% of voters support passing Biden's $4 trillion infrastructure plan without any Republican votes, poll finds | President Joe Biden. Melina Mara/The Washington Post via AP, Pool
A Data for Progress poll found the majority of voters support using reconciliation to pass infrastructure.
It also found that 68% of voters support reforming the corporate ta... |
| A majority of voters agreed with student-loan borrowers in a survey: Payments should not resume in 48 days while the pandemic is still ongoing | College graduate sitting outside. Sean de Burca/Getty Images
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A Data for Progress survey found 55% of voters support extending the student-loan payment pause past Feb. 1.
70% of voters also expressed support for the pause that beg... |
| Fourth stimulus checks are unlikely. Here’s what federal aid could be coming next | As more $1,400 stimulus checks go out, many people wonder if more payments will follow.
While the answer right now is no, more help could be coming to parents and the unemployed.
Experts say the Covid-19 pandemic could have lasting effects ... |
| Climate Crisis Weekly: 5 eco-friendly holiday gift ideas, a billboard that eats smog, more | 5 eco-friendly holiday gift ideas for you last-minute shoppers.
If we cut air pollution, then it could prevent depression in millions of people.
A Dutch designer created a billboard in Mexico that actually eats smog.
A solar-powered desalin... |
| Why one group is calling for fourth stimulus checks to help retirees stave off rising costs | Next year’s Social Security cost-of-living adjustment could be the highest it’s been in years.
Boosting retiree income could mean they will face additional costs in other areas.
Now one senior advocacy group plans to petition Congress to st... |
| Toyota just started its BEV program, but it wasted all its tax credits on hybrids | Toyota has sold its 200,000th plug-in car in the US, meaning its access to the $7,500 federal tax credit will sunset over the course of the next 15 months.
The company joins Tesla and GM in no longer qualifying for credits, with Ford and Ni... |
| Abortion rights and gun control join the wish list of executive orders that midterm-wary Democrats want Biden to issue ASAP | President Joe Biden speaks about Covid-19 vaccines for children in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on June 21, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Progressive Democrats are adding to the executive orders they want Biden to jump on.
Doing ... |
| The Biden administration just canceled $5.8 billion in student loans—and more borrowers could see relief soon | The U.S. Department of Education canceled about $5.8 billion in outstanding student loans for more than 560,000 borrowers in the largest single loan forgiveness action taken by the government to date, the department announced Wednesday.
The... |
| Why millionaires may have already hit their Social Security payroll tax limit for 2024 | In 2024, up to $168,600 in earnings are subject to Social Security payroll taxes.
Millionaires are set to hit that threshold in March and won’t pay into the program for the rest of the year.
Here’s why some lawmakers and high-net-worth indi... |
