Politics – Page 581 – People's World

If income gap is a chasm, wealth gap is Grand Canyon

January 17, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

The top 1 percent of the U.S. owned 39.6 percent of U.S. wealth in 2016, up from one-third 33 years before.

Nancy Pelosi shuts down Trump’s State of the Union

January 17, 2019 By John Wojcik

Ocasio-Cortez hunts down McConnell to dramatize his responsibility in the government shut-down.

Trump recalls 50,000 workers without pay; shutdown costs hit $1 billion a week

January 16, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

The cost is so high that now even Trump’s own top economist admits it could end U.S. economic growth and send the nation into recession.

McConnell’s medieval moves to continue the shutdown

January 15, 2019 By Lowell B. Denny, III

The leader of the U.S. Senate, Republican Mitch McConnell has resolutely refused to consider any bill that Trump does not approve of.

A Peoples’ Victory: Cyntoia Brown granted freedom

January 14, 2019 By Albert Bender

On January 7, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam announced at a press conference that he was granting Cyntoia Brown’s request for clemency. Brown will be released on August 7 of this year. The news was received with...