09.25.2017

By Natalia Castro For the last eight months, we have watched the Republican Party flounder on healthcare. Now, with the clock running out, most seem to agree on one thing — this is their last, best chance to repeal and replace Obamacare this year. Republicans […]
09.22.2017

By ALG Staff Major institutions in the U.S. have a problem. Scandals appear in the media daily. Big corporations going bankrupt, religious institutions hiding scandals, and public schools failing at the basic task of education are just a sample of what appears in the headlines. […]
09.21.2017

By Robert Romano With Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said to be definite noes on the Graham-Cassidy legislation, Senate Republicans have zero margin for error in their latest bid to repeal and replace Obamacare before the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30. This makes […]
09.20.2017

By Natalia Castro Congressional Republicans failed to repeal and replace Obamacare, now Democrats want to take this destructive policy a step further. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has come together with other Democrats to promote a single payer system, despite the consistent proof of failure. Republicans […]
09.19.2017

By Robert Romano Almost a decade after quantitative easing began in 2008 — where the U.S. Federal Reserve expanded its U.S. Treasuries holdings by over $1.9 trillion and acquired another $1.8 trillion of mortgage-backed securities, and then kept purchasing more as the bonds matured starting in 2014 […]
09.15.2017

By Robert Romano “We’re proposing one of the largest tax cuts in history, even larger than that of President Ronald Reagan. Our tax cut is bigger.” That was President Donald Trump speaking on May 1 in a speech made to the Independent Community Bankers Association at the White House, promising huge, record-setting tax cuts for the American […]
09.14.2017

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump bought himself and Congress more time to deal with the nation’s fiscal woes in a deal that funded the government for another three months, paid for immediate hurricane disaster relief and extended the debt ceiling to Dec. 9. At the time, […]
09.14.2017

By Rick Manning America’s media monopolies pose a threat to democracy. Most people know that President Donald Trump has engaged in a very public war of words with a variety of biased media outlets, like CNN, over their advocacy journalism which shreds any semblance of objectivity. In […]
09.13.2017

By Richard McCarty The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the nation’s largest unions, has been filling its coffers with Medicaid dollars for years. With the help of Democrat politicians, SEIU has been raking in tens of millions of dollars each year by skimming dues off […]