Government
Workers scramble to pay bills as Trump shutdown drags on
December 27, 2018One union leader says, “If the president wants to gamble, perhaps he should go back to running casinos. Gambling with the lives of federal workers is not acceptable."
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Federal workers union asks Congress to stop Trump’s government shutdown
December 18, 2018Trump adamantly demands Congress fund his Mexican border wall, or he'll shut the government down.
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Make the public sector public again
November 29, 2018The outsourcing of federal activities to private firms is likely an important reason for people’s dissatisfaction with government: They are far more expensive and their goal is profit not service.
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Trump snubbed McCain, but the media snubbed the rest of us
August 27, 2018The media treated Trump's petty snub of John McCain as a bigger controversy than the $717 billion Pentagon bill named for the Arizona senator.
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Locking up immigrant children is now a billion-dollar industry
July 13, 2018Currently, more than 11,800 children, from a few months old to 17, are housed in nearly 90 facilities in 15 states.
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