A congressionally chartered control board tasked with fixing Puerto Rico’s debt crisis has been stacked with banking industry executives and faces mounting public opposition.
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Transportation Secretary Foxx Moves to Heal Scars of Urban Renewal
For Anthony Foxx, fixing America’s roads and bridges isn’t just about rebuilding. It’s about addressing the racial and economic divisions long embedded in the nation’s infrastructure in places like Pittsburgh.
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Obama’s Dangerous Drone Policy
President Obama is winding down his final term with a push to curb nuclear weapons and close detention facilities, but his overreliance on military drones threatens to tarnish his administration’s foreign-policy legacy.
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Centrist Democrats Team Up with Corporate Lobby to Undermine Overtime Rule
New legislation could keep 10 million workers without overtime pay over the next 20 years.
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Hillary Clinton and the Obama Legacy
She inherits a series of crises and policy challenges that could elect Donald Trump, unless Clinton picks up her game.
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Q&A: Diversifying the Fed
National Urban League President Marc Morial recently met with the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors to make the case that more diversity in the U.S. banking system would have mitigated the devastation the recession inflicted on communities of color.
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Report: VHA Care Commission Recommends Private-Sector Options
As conservatives and congressional Republicans seek to dismantle the Veterans Health Administration, members of the commission called for giving veterans more private-sector options.
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The War over Obama’s Labor Agenda
The NLRB’s latest pro-labor ruling comes just as Republicans turn up the heat on their plan to undermine the president’s labor legacy.
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How Tom Perez Embodies the Democrats’ TPP Rift
When it comes to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Tom Perez is stuck between a rock and a hard place-or rather, between his current boss, President Barack Obama, and his potential future boss, Hillary Clinton. In his role as the U.S. labor secretary, Perez has gone to the mat for Obama as a prominent supporter of […]
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Democrats Fight Trump and One Another Over Trade
As Donald Trump ramps up his anti-trade rhetoric, progressives have stepped up pressure on the Democratic Party’s platform committee to decisively reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
