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America's Got Governance | Politics | U.S.

Crush the Workers, Feed the Bosses: How Trump’s War on Labor is Killing Wages, Unions, and Worker Rights
ByJustin Jest February 28, 2025February 28, 2025

If you work for a living, buckle up, because Trump and his Republican enablers are coming for your paycheck, your union, and your basic rights on the job. The billionaires are in charge, and their goal is simple: weaken labor protections, drive wages down, and make sure workers stay powerless. Union-Busting on Steroids Trump’s labor policies are a dream come true for corporate America and a nightmare for everyone…
America's Got Governance | Politics | U.S.

Suffer, Struggle, and Stay Poor: How the GOP’s Budget Cuts Are Wrecking Working Families
ByJustin Jest February 28, 2025February 28, 2025

The rich get tax cuts. You get higher medical bills, fewer food benefits, and an education system in shambles. Welcome to 2025, where the Republican playbook is simple: make life harder for working families while billionaires count their savings. Healthcare: Pay More, Get Less (or Nothing at All) Slashing Medicaid and Affordable Care Act subsidies hits low-wage workers the hardest, the very people who gained coverage under Obamacare. With…
America's Got Governance | Health | Politics | U.S.

Starve the Poor, Feed the Rich: The GOP’s All-Out Assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and Basic Human Decency
ByJustin Jest February 28, 2025February 28, 2025

If you’re poor, sick, disabled, or just barely scraping by, the Republican-controlled government has a message for you: Tough luck. While billionaires celebrate permanent tax cuts and Wall Street reaps record profits, Trump and his congressional allies have launched an all-out attack on the social safety net, gutting the very programs that keep millions of Americans afloat. Medicaid: $880 Billion on the Chopping Block In February 2025, the House…
America's Got Governance | Business | Economy | U.S.

The Rich Get Richer (Again), and You Get the Bill
ByJustin Jest February 27, 2025February 27, 2025

Trump and his Republican allies love to sell tax cuts as an economic miracle, pro-growth, pro-jobs, a golden ticket to prosperity for all. But let’s be real: the only people cashing in on this so-called prosperity are billionaires, hedge fund managers, and corporate executives. A One-Way Cash Flow, Upward The 2017 tax cuts were supposed to supercharge business investment and raise wages across the board. Instead, they supercharged stock…
America's Got Governance | Economy | U.S.

How the GOP Made Tax Evasion Easier Than Ever (for evil rich bastards)
ByJustin Jest February 27, 2025February 27, 2025

If you thought tax policy was already rigged in favor of the ultra-rich, buckle up, because Trump and his Republican allies just handed America’s wealthiest an even bigger cheat code. Slashing tax rates for the top 0.1% wasn’t enough. Now, they’re making sure no one even checks if the rich and big corporations pay their fair share. Defunding the Tax Police, But Only for the Wealthy One of the…
America's Got Governance | Business | U.S.

Tax Cuts for the Rich, Scraps for Everyone Else
ByJustin Jest February 27, 2025February 27, 2025

Welcome to 2025, where the only thing trickling down is the sweat off working-class brows while billionaires sip champagne on their superyachts. The Trump administration is back with a vengeance, and at the top of the agenda? Making sure the rich get richer, forever. Locking in the 2017 Giveaway Trump’s 2017 tax cuts were a love letter to the ultra-wealthy, corporations, hedge fund managers, and trust fund heirs all…
America's Got Governance | Business | U.S.

Wall Street’s Free Pass: Trump’s Deregulatory Bonanza for Big Banks
ByJustin Jest February 27, 2025February 27, 2025

Welcome to the new era of financial oversight, where the fox isn’t just guarding the henhouse, he’s bulldozing it to build a hedge fund headquarters. Since returning to power, Trump and his financial goon squad have declared open season on bank regulations, stripping away safeguards like they’re nuisance speed bumps on the highway to corporate greed. Rolling Back the Guardrails, Again Remember the 2008 financial crash? The Great Recession…
America's Got Governance | Economy | U.S.

Dismantling Rules Across Government: The Trump Administration’s Deregulation Blitz
ByJustin Jest February 27, 2025February 27, 2025

Welcome to the year 2025, where the only thing disappearing faster than workers’ rights is the ozone layer. The second coming of Trump has delivered on its promise: an all-out war on regulations, a bonfire of the rulebooks, a full-speed sprint toward corporate free-for-all. This isn’t just a policy shift, it’s an ideological crusade, a blood sacrifice to the gods of unchecked capitalism. And unless you own a multinational…
America's Got Governance | Politics | U.S.

THE GREAT UNRAVELING: TRUMP, MUSK, AND THE HUMILIATION OF DOGE
ByJustin Jest February 27, 2025February 27, 2025

In the grand, crumbling funhouse that is the Musk-Trump bureaucratic experiment, the walls are closing in. Today, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., shattered the illusion of unchecked executive power, ordering the Trump administration to immediately restore foreign aid funds they had illegally shut down. Judge Amir Ali, in a ruling that can only be described as an exercise in controlled fury, made it clear: comply by midnight, or…
America's Got Governance | Health | Politics | U.S.

The House GOP Budget: A Wrecking Ball for the Social Safety Net, A Golden Throne for the Wealthy
ByJustin Jest February 25, 2025February 25, 2025

In a move that can only be described as a high-stakes political heist, House Republicans rammed through a budget blueprint designed to fulfill the fever-dream policies of Donald J. Trump. On a razor-thin 217-215 vote, this blueprint doesn’t just sketch the contours of government spending, it lays down the battlefield for an all-out war on the social safety net while showering the rich in another golden age of tax…

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Economy | Housing

A Job Shouldn’t Have a Bouncer

By Harlan Quill

A job should open the door to a home, not lock you out—but this door has a bouncer with a calculator. Rent climbed to…

Environment | Politics

Amphifa Wins Edition: The Pool’s Still Green, and the Frog Suit Keeps Beating the President in the Algae Feud

By Phil McCracken

The president of the United States can lose a feud to a frog suit, call the problem “a crazy pro-algae (likely paid) protestor,” and…

Labor | Tech

Follow the Money: Productivity “Saved Time”—So Why Did Workers Get Busier Instead?

By Justin Jest

Better tools. Faster systems. More efficiency. Then the fine print does the disappearing-act everyone loves: technology got faster, workers got busier, and the “experience”…

Economy | Labor

Gross Pay Can Look Big—But the Headline Isn’t What You Actually Live On

By Mike Rotch

Every time somebody sells “good jobs” using the gross pay number, I can practically hear the math trying to escape the room. Gross is…

Economy | Politics

Be Patient: The Billionaire Customer Service Script

By Justin Jest

When wealth piles up at the top, everyone else feels the weight. AT THE TOP gets asset booms, market gains, and tax advantages; DOWN…

Economy | Labor

Reality Check vs. Johnson’s Position: Freedom Math Can’t Eat Rent (Wisconsin Edition)

By Brick Tungsten

Johnson’s Position sounds like a front-porch sermon: “I oppose raising the minimum wage. There are high paying factory jobs that factories can’t fill, so…