The total deficit in 2018 ran $779 billion, which is a growth of $113 billion. Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) called this deficit “” and set forth the Republican deficit…
Amazon last month, compared to Walmart’s $282 billion. Yet somehow, Amazon has managed to pay just a fraction of the taxes Walmart pays. That’s according to a recent article in the New…
Affordable housing projects have been the punching bag of home-owners and politicians since the creation of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit in 1986. Followers of NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard) claim…
A Seattle landlord is letting tenants live rent-free for the entire month of November in celebration of a Biblical holiday. Reddit user ChemicalSupermarket a photo posted to the last week, ostensibly of…
Amazon workers celebrating their employer’s decision to give workers raises to $15/hour may want to hold off on their touchdown dance. The raises, which were announced Tuesday morning, were greeted with fanfare,…
It doesn’t take a deep dig into the U.S. economy to see which economic class is taking home the winnings these days. Even limited research reveals that middle and low-income brackets were…
With all eyes on the Senate, the House moved Friday to permanently extend the that are President Trump’s signature accomplishment. The individual cuts are set to expire within a decade, while the…
Washington state pays out millions in corporate welfare to the aerospace industry. One beneficiary, the jetmaker Boeing, took $227 million in state tax incentives last year while cutting 6,052 jobs. The idea…
Amazon, perhaps sensing the image of its warehouses as American sweatshops, is giving “damage control” raises to workers between 25 cents and 55 cents an hour. The Washington Post reported Monday that…
At a time where a nominee to the Supreme Court , attention again falls on the #MeToo movement that launched into the public consciousness last year with the . But most abusers…