[Poverty Wages\Corporate America]
Sanders: “At a time when huge corporations like Walmart and McDonald’s are making billions in profits and giving their CEOs tens of millions of dollars a year, they’re relying on corporate welfare from the federal government by paying their workers starvation wages. That is morally obscene.”
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Government Accountability Office
GAO Report: Taxpayers Subsidize Poverty Wages at Big Corporations like Walmart, McDonald’s
Democrats Urge Trump Administration Against “Midnight Rulemaking”
[Midnight Rulemaking]
House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) expressing their strong concern against a potential last-minute roll-back of protections by the outgoing Trump Administration, and urging OMB and OIRA to instruct executive branch agencies not to engage in “midnight rulemaking.”
Photo: YouTube
Watchdog: DHS Improperly Deployed Officers and Agents to Task Force
[Office of the Inspector General]
“This emergency Management Alert warns that the DHS did not comply with the law when it created and deployed – for political reasons – a ‘Task Force’ that included officers from Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
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COVID-19: Scott, Norton Demand Support for Schools to Keep Kids Safe
[School Budgets\COVID-19]
Rep. Norton: “Many schools, like those in the District, have been forced to go virtual because of the pandemic…The delay in passing the Heroes Act, which contains $200B for schools, is unconscionably shortchanging our children .”
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Falling Behind: COVID-19, Climate Change, and Chaos
[COVID\Climate Change]
Gurtov: “As environmental security worsens, so does human security. The reason is simple: the intersection of worsening climate conditions and the pandemic. Floods, drought, and other calamities compound the vulnerability of populations.”
Photo: YouTube
Senator Bernie Sanders Calls For 10 Percent Reduction in Military Budget
[National Defense Authorization Act]
Sanders: “At this pivotal moment in American history, we have to make a fundamental decision. Do we want to spend billions more on endless wars in the Middle East, or do we want to provide decent jobs to millions of unemployed Americans here at home?”
Photo: YouTube
GAO STUDY SHOWS PENTAGON’S LUCRATIVE WEAPONS CONTRACTS AREN’T REVIEWED
[Pentagon\Weapons Contracts]
Sen. Sanders: “We have a Pentagon budget filled with unbelievable amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse. That is why I asked GAO to examine how the Defense Department awards Pentagon contractors with weapons deals.”
Photo: YouTube
SENATORS SANDERS AND VAN HOLLEN PUSH LEGISLATION TO END CEO TAX-BREAKS AND PROTECT WORKERS’ PENSIONS
[CEO and Worker Pension Fairness Act]
Sen. Sanders: “We are going to end these tax breaks for CEOs and use that money to protect 1.7 million workers who are worried about a decent retirement.”
Photo: Institute For Policy Studies
GAO REPORT: ACHIEVING AMERICAN DREAM HARDER FOR MILLENIALS, RACIAL DISPARITIES DIMINISHING ECONOMIC MOBILITY
[Economy\GAO Report]
According to GAO, millennials had an estimated median net worth of $20,038 in 2016 dollars, $11,202 less than the average net worth of Generation Xers when they were 25 to 34 years old—a 36-percent decline over 15 years… Black families experience less upward economic mobility from one generation to the next than white families.
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