GOP Tax Plan Contains More Bad News for Student Borrowers
"The headline in the New York Times seemed sympathetic: "The House Just Voted To Bankrupt Graduate Students". The piece by Erin Rousseau,…
7 years ago
GOP Tax Plan Got a Triple Whammy of Brutal Reviews
"Three different groups offered critical analyses of the bill's potentially negative effects on the federal budget, Americans' taxes, and the…
7 years ago
Drilling Reawakens Sleeping Faults in Texas, Leads to Earthquakes
"For 300 million years faults showed no activity, and then wastewater injections from oil and gas wells came along." More…
7 years ago
Wall Street’s Border Wall: How Five Firms Stand to Benefit Financially from Anti-Immigrant Policy
"An examination of Sterling Construction Company, the only publicly-traded company to receive a contract to build a border wall prototype,…
7 years ago
GOP Tax Bill Could Trigger a $25 Billion Cut to Medicare
"Republicans are trying to pass a $1.5 trillion tax cut — which the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday could trigger…
7 years ago
Wells Fargo Overcharged Clients on Foreign Exchange Rates: Report
"Scandal strikes Wells Fargo yet again. The bank overcharged their corporate clients on foreign exchanges and levied hefty transactions fees…
7 years ago
GOP Tax Plan Rattles Higher Education
"Congressional Republicans’ plans to slap unprecedented new taxes on higher education have left college leaders shocked and scrambling — the…
7 years ago
Trump’s Tax Promises Undercut by CEO Plans to Help Investors
"Major companies including Cisco Systems, Inc., Pfizer, Inc. and Coco Cola Co., say they’ll turn over most gains from proposed…
7 years ago
Ex-Con Coal Baron Don Blankenship Is Running for U.S. Senate
"Blankenship’s candidacy is big news in West Virginia, where he is a well-known and deeply polarizing figure who spent decades…
7 years ago
Moody’s Warns Cities to Address Climate Risks or Face Downgrades
"Coastal communities from Maine to California have been put on notice from one of the top credit rating agencies: Start…
7 years ago