For the next few days, I’m not letting my joy be sullied by doubts. By Monday, I’m sure the high will have worn off. The good news is that the resistance has not only endured, it has worked. No longer a creature of big, splashy Washington marches, it has taken on the grinding scutwork of…
The Trump administration has pulled out of a popular Obama-era program that helped feed the world’s poorest people. A key Treasury Department official revealed last week that the United States would stop funding the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, a seven-year-old project that fund improvements in agricultural productivity across the world. The U.S. has…
Last week, the Trump administration unveiled an initiative to “improve teen pregnancy prevention and sexual risk avoidance programs.” The goal, according to the announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services, was to “help improve our children’s future.” This goal is so important that the agency is spending $10 million to reach it. Here’s…
Behind closed doors, and very quietly, lawmakers from both wings of both parties are scrambling to save DACA — a program that has protected from deportation nearly 800,000 young illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. As improbable as it sounds, it currently appears that the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic…
House Republicans are on the precipice of a big victory on tax reform, but the legislation still faces enormous hurdles before it can reach President Trump’s desk and be signed into law. Legislation is expected to receive a vote on the House floor this week after clearing the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee in a…
‘I don’t feel wealthy’: The upper middle class is worried about paying for the tax overhaul In prosperous suburbs across the nation, the GOP plan could have serious repercussions if popular deductions are cut or disappear. Source
The Republicans’ plan proposes to offset $2 trillion in tax cuts in part by going after the deductions enjoyed by the upper middle class, generally those earning $100,000 to $250,000 a year, representing about the top 20 to 5 percent of earners. The Joint Committee on Taxation found, for instance, that nearly 90 percent of…
President Donald Trump recently declared America’s opioid crisis a “national emergency.” Prescription opioids are prescribed for pain, but the medications can be highly addictive. People who become addicted may switch to heroin when they can no longer get pills at the pharmacy or on the black market. The epidemic is rapidly killing people, something like…
Congress is working on tax reform. Earlier this week, we heard about the effort from Republican member of Congress Fred Upton. Today, MICHIGAN Statesidetalked with Democratic Congressman Dan Kildee. Listen above to Kildee’s full interview with Stateside host Lester Graham, or read a transcript of the beginning of the conversation below. Rep. Kildee: Just saying…
Next week, the MICHIGAN Court of Appeals will be hearing a case to determine whether prisoners are protected under Michigan’s Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act. The Michigan Constitution states, “No person shall be denied the equal protection of the law,” but the Legislature decided that doesn’t apply to prisoners. The case is a class action suit…