What A Homes Guarantee Means I lost everything during the financial crisis. The government decided that the perpetrators of the crisis were “too big to fail” and bailed them out with our money. I was not bailed out. Today, a decade after the crisis, I’m part of a grassroots-led effort to ensure every person in […]

Trump Showing More Concern for His Real Estate Holdings Than Human Beings in Remarks on Homelessness President Donald Trump on Tuesday complained that California’s homelessness crisis is harming the “prestige” of major cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, remarks that housing advocates said displayed more sympathy for wealthy real estate investors and property than […]

Rural America, Medicare for All is a matter of life or death Rural hospitals are often the economic heart of a community. Worse, when minutes mean the difference between life and death, every hospital that closes leaves patients in danger. Since 2010, 113 rural hospitals have closed their doors, leaving more than 30 million Americans […]

‘Heartless and Unconscionable’: Outrage as General Motors Cuts Off Healthcare for 50,000 Striking Workers In a movie critics said exposes both the particular cruelty of General Motors executives and the systematic inhumanity of the American healthcare system, GM on Tuesday stopped covering health insurance premiums for the nearly 50,000 auto workers striking for fair wages […]

Congress Promised Student Borrowers A Break. Education Dept. Rejected 99% Pt II The Education Department “has not created a borrower-friendly TEPSLF process,” the GAO says. “This does not align with Education’s strategic plan objective to improve the quality of service to customers across the student aid life cycle.” The Austins found the process so confusing […]

Here’s one thing Democrats can do to win rural voters: Fight factory farms Donald Trump is banking on riding his hardline stance on immigration to re-election in 2020. Tough talk of a wall makes headlines, but it’s a less discussed issue that could play a deciding role for voters in swing states and early primary […]

Congress Promised Student Borrowers A Break. Education Dept. Rejected 99% Of Them A new report from a government watchdog, says an expanded effort by Congress to forgive the student loans of public servants is remarkably unforgiving. Congress created the expansion program last year in response to a growing outcry. Thousands of borrowers — nurses, teachers, […]

How a Trump Tax Break to Help Poor Communities Became a Windfall for the Rich Pt. III ‘The Best Thing I Have Ever Done’ Backers of the opportunity-zone program say luxury projects are the easiest to finance, which is why those have been happening first. Over the long run, they say, those deals will be […]

How a Trump Tax Break to Help Poor Communities Became a Windfall for the Rich Pt. II A Tax Break Is Born: Mr. Scaramucci, left, shaking hands with John F. Kelly, the former White House chief of staff. Mr. Scaramucci is using opportunity-zone advantages to help build a hotel in a trendy section of New […]

How a Trump Tax Break to Help Poor Communities Became a Windfall for the Rich The Bonanza: Work on a parking garage next to Preston, a luxury apartment development in a new opportunity zone in Houston. President Trump has portrayed America’s cities as wastelands, ravaged by crime and homelessness, infested by rats. But the Trump […]