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Senate Republicans pass tax cut for rich

December 1, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg

“These cuts go to corporate stockholders. They don't go to raise wages. They go to executive compensation. They don't go to create jobs. They go to stock buybacks."

Battle over consumer protection agency hits the streets and the courts

November 29, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg

The big banks have spent tens of millions in lobbying, and tried virtually everything, to eliminate the CFPB. The GOP has willingly obeyed their orders.

This week in history: UN approves Jewish and Arab states in Palestine

November 27, 2017 By Special to People’s World

Seventy years ago, on November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 181, remembered as the UN Partition Plan.

Trump Labor Secretary Acosta defends rules cuts, GOP tax plan

November 17, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg

“In its first 10 months” under Trump “there are troubling questions about whether the department reversed important progress made during the previous administration.

Building a majority movement during the “End Days”

November 16, 2017 By Erica Smiley

If progressives can trust in working people’s innate ability to struggle and grow over issues of race when organized around our shared values, we will see success.