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Injustice is in front of our eyes. Immigrants are seized after arriving at appointments to comply with immigration rules. They are kidnapped at workplaces and schools, without warrants. Some are children.
We have to stand up against the dangerous bullying tactics that are tearing families and communities apart and subverting our democracy. And we must also continue to tell Congress that a big brutal budget bill that denies health coverage and food assistance to millions of people, that threatens public education, and funds military force to threaten our own communities is a bill that must be rejected. MORE »
Giving ICE more funding than any other law enforcement agency to violate due process at an even grander scale won’t help anyone, however, because deportations don’t improve workers’ wages and working conditions.
It’ll unquestionably make workplace conditions worse, while giving ICE the ability to do much more of what they’ve already been doing—namely, covering their faces and kidnapping students who are in the country lawfully, as well as going after labor organizers, university scientists, and even sometimes construction workers who are U.S. citizens. MORE »
As a child, I felt so fancy when we used the purple food stamps — those were the pretty ones. We were a hardworking, loving family. My parents ensured we weren’t around anyone who tried to make us feel “less than” for needing help to make ends meet.
We may be poor due to this country’s wage and income system, which rewards inherited wealth over hard work and disinvests in families and communities. But we know the values of family, community, work, and service. We demand that those elected to serve us do the same. MORE »
The House of Representatives’ recently passed tax bill changes course on taxing multinational corporations engaged in shifting U.S. profits overseas, offering massive tax giveaways that weaken American revenues and risk sending more American corporate investment offshore.
It is important to keep in mind that a staggering 70 percent of Americans think that corporations already pay too little in tax. It is abundantly clear that the public is not clamoring to cut taxes for multinational corporations with suspiciously large amounts of overseas profit. MORE »
