The GOP Tax Robbery Bill, the tax cuts that shoveled hundreds of billions of dollars into the hands of the very rich and corporations, was built on a complex set of lies. And, now with the close of 2019 and the numbers in on a full year of corporate 2018 tax returns, we have the […]
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Episode 163: The Tax Robbery Was Worse Than You Imagined; A Progressive For The Texas U.S. Senate Seat
Posted on 08 January 2020.
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Episode 161: An ICE-Company Cover Up Of Workplace Deaths in NOLA?; Progressives Siegal and O’Mara Run For Congress
Posted on 18 December 2019.
Shut your damn mouth or be deported. That’s basically the upshot of what happened to Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma, who wanted to tell the truth about the collapse of the under-construction Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans but, two days after he was hurt in the disaster, Joel found himself dragged off by ICE into […]
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Episode 105: Uber/Lyft Drivers Race-To-Bottom; Sales Taxes Rob The Poor; Wellstone Remembered
Posted on 24 October 2018.
Thousands of drivers in the app-driven ride service business, principally those who work for Uber and Lyft, just can’t make ends meet—and the whole scramble has created a race-to-the-bottom in which companies impoverish the very people who bring in the cash (sound familiar?). To get an insight into the plight of such drivers, I speak […]
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Episode 77: The Man Who Will Beat Ted Cruz; A Teacher Can’t Pay For Food; GOP Tax Fraud
Posted on 11 April 2018.
Beto. He’s the guy who will send Ted Cruz into retirement. I talk with Beto O’Rourke while he’s out driving on the campaign trail in Texas. Have you tried to live on a teacher’s salary? In Oklahoma, it means counting on visiting a food pantry to survive, as I learn in my in-depth talk with […]
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Episode 75: Stealing Tips, Not! Big Airport Wage Hike, Yes! Texas Going Blue in 32nd?
Posted on 28 March 2018.
The gall of greedy employers never seems to end, right? This time it shows up in the restaurant biz where the other NRA—the National Restaurant Association–was trying to get its hands on waiters’ tips. I talk to Judy Conti, a key leader in the successful battle to slap down that money grab. I, then, […]
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Texas Deaths
Posted on 19 April 2013.
It’s the unsaid word: union. It’s not that an explosion can’t happen in a plant that is union. But, it’s less likely if there are health and safety standards — and a union is most likely to make sure that these standards are adhered to.
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The Absurdity of Organizing: A Wal-Mart Tale
Posted on 24 March 2009.
I was inclined to give my own take on the newest Treasury plan to bail out banks but, not that that isn’t important, I thought this was more likely to get missed. Surprise, surprise, Wal-Mart is negotiating with the UFCW about an organizing issue. But, it isn’t what you think: Nine years after a […]
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