TOP NEWS: Poor People's Campaign Demands Meeting With Biden As Millions Face Rising Costs, Stagnant Wages

 

June 06, 2022

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Poor People's Campaign Demands Meeting With Biden As Millions Face Rising Costs, Stagnant Wages "Why don't poor people get meetings in the Oval Office instead of corporations?" by Kenny Stancil Civil Rights Groups Demand Senate Reinstate Desperately Needed Child Tax Credit With U.S. families now spending an average of $327 per month more than usual, said the groups, "this toll on family budgets could be offset by a single monthly CTC payment." by Julia Conley Pushed by Progressives, Biden Invokes Defense Production Act to Boost Renewable EnergyDEFENS "We hope this use of the Defense Production Act is a turning point for the president, who must use all his executive powers to confront the climate emergency head-on," said Jean Su with the Center for Biological Diversity. by Andrea Germanos

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It's Time for Democrats to Stop Agreeing That the Second Amendment Protects an Individual's Right to Bear Arms It has now been turned into the rationale for a Republican Supreme Court majority to enact an extreme right-wing political agenda, often opposed by a majority of the American people. by Miles Mogulescu It Doesn't Matter to the Oligarchy How Many Mass Shootings There Are There will be no gun control, not only because of the gun lobby and a corrupt political class, but because for many white Americans the idea of the gun is the only power they have left. by Chris Hedges The Ukraine War and the World's Increasingly Dangerous Geopolitical Landscape War, nuclear annihilation, climate chaos, pandemics, and devastating economic and social inequalities make for extremely tumultuous and dangerous times. But we have the resources and solutions to resolve each of them. by Joseph Gerson

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