by MCDC | Jan 8, 2014 | Civil Rights, Employment, History, Minimum Wage, Sequester
BY IGOR VOLSKY It has been 50 years since Lyndon Johnson first declared that the nation could, “for the first time in our history,” conquer and win a war on poverty, pledging a “total commitment by this President, and this Congress, and this nation, to pursue victory...
by MCDC | Jan 4, 2014 | Employment, Ethics, Health Care, History, Issues, Minimum Wage, Sequester, Social Security, Video
extracts from Wikipedia and PoliticsUSA The Second Bill of Rights was a list of rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. In his address Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize, and should...
by MCDC | Jan 2, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Ethics, Health Care, Issues
by BRIAN BEUTLER A quick look at the House and Senate vote calendars indicates that Congress did not in fact come back into session over the holidays to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which means that as of today (depending on how you count it) millions and millions...
by MCDC | Jan 2, 2014 | Economy, Employment, Minimum Wage, Video
a tip-of-the-hat to Frank Dixon Via Business Insider: “As the war over income inequality wages on, super-rich Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer has been raising the hackles of his fellow 1-percenters, espousing the contrarian argument that rich people...
by MCDC | Jan 2, 2014 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Ethics, Events, Video, Voter Rights
by Cory Doctorow Brian sez, “Lawrence Lessig, former EFF board member, chair of the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, founder of the Center for Internet and Society, founding board member of Creative Commons, and former board member of the Free...
by MCDC | Dec 28, 2013 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Video
By the incomparable John Green, who says the following about his sources: “For a much more thorough examination of health care expenses in America, I recommend this series at The Incidental Economist and The Commonwealth Fund’s Study of Health Care Prices...
