APF/Blackwater in your town? Fed Contracting spiral
Earlier today BruinKid posted disturbing news which I commented on yesterday.Over at Truthout, that thorn in Blackwater's side, Jeramy Scahill talks about the Acorn defunding scandal in light of...
View ArticleHas Our Government Outsourced Stupidity too? Did TSA Lose its ™?
With federal government bloat, there's always someone to blame. With the former Bush Administration's push for the use of contractors, now there are even more to blame.ABC News reports the latest on...
View ArticleAK-Sen Will Murkowski's ethics become an issue?
An ethical lapse that has dogged Lisa Murkowski in the past is getting another look in the Alaska press, Murkowski still sees no problem with 2006 Kenai land dealIt's a story familiar to most Alaska...
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Major corporations don't share Chamber's hatred of transparency
The Chamber of Commerce is fighting tooth and nail President Obama's draft executive order, which would require greater transparency from government contractors when it comes to political donations....
View ArticleCitizens Divided
Citizens Divided? Yup.The Corporate-kind from the Human-kind, that is. Think Corporations have No Rights? -- Think again ...Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit by Adam Liptak, nytimes.com...
View ArticleCitizens Divided
Citizens Divided? Yes, conceptionally speaking.The Corporate-kind "divided" from the Human-kind, that is. Separate and Not Equals. The way the founding Constitutional authors intended it....
View ArticlePushing for the federal contractor executive order in Tennessee
Since the end of the election there has been talk of a renewed push to get President Obama to sign an executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating in employment based on sexual...
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Low-wage workers stage second one-day strike against wage theft by federal...
The Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., was the site of a second one-day strike by low-wage workers at private businesses holding federal contracts Tuesday. The workers allege rampant wage...
View ArticleSanta Came Early This Year for the Federal Contractors, Just Not Their Employees
Last Wednesday, President Obama gave a talk on economic mobility and income inequality at the Center for American Progress. It's somewhat strange to stage your speech on economic mobility at a DC think...
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House progressive leaders urge wage theft crackdown
Rep. Keith Ellison Weeks after President Barack Obama signed an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $10.10 an hour, the leaders of the Congressional Progressive...
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New Labor Rule posted, will implement President's Executive Order
Yesterday Secretary of Labor Tom Perez announced that the final rule implementing President Obama's Executive Order 13672 has been posted. You may recall that EO, signed by the president on July 21,...
View ArticleNationwide Fight for $15 Strikes Today In 190 Cities
There are strikes today in 190 cities with fast food workers demanding $15 an hour and the right to unionize. At the same time low-wage federal contract workers are demanding Presidential action to win...
View ArticlePresident Obama's Labor Department Takes On Sex Discrimination in Federal...
This is a brief 'heads up' to the DK community about an item in today's Federal Register from the U.S. Department of Labor -- on the issue of Discrimination on the Basis of Sex in federal...
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Democracy Demoralized
Americans know the ugly truth about money in politics. Though the wealthy conceal payoffs through dark money deposits into political pockets, it’s no secret to the American public that the rich are...
View ArticleWill Bernie take my money?
I'm feelin' the Bern! I've been following his campaign since before he was campaigning - I love his message and I really want to help him become our next president. Unfortunately, every time I go to...
View ArticleLet’s Ask Obama to Give This Speech Next
Barack Obama once confessed to politics’ original sin but has yet to atone for it. He now has an opportunity to do so.I speak of his promiscuous relationship with money in politics. During his 2008...
View ArticleThe White House responds to your petition, but you won’t like what they said
Hello! I’m a new member of the Daily Kos staff, in the campaigns department. I’m looking forward to posting a lot more and getting to know this community better. And I first wanted to update you on a...
View ArticleHouse GOP lawmakers secretly trying to roll back protections for employees of...
Buoyed by the success of North Carolina’s broadly discriminatory HB2 effort, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives also hope to enhance the ability to discriminate against any American who...
View ArticleTrump shutdown continues to hurt workers, dampen the economy, and damage the...
With the top two Republican members of the federal government holding federal employees’ livelihoods hostage and a Tuesday ruling by a George W. Bush-appointed judge telling them that they can’t stop...
View ArticleStop worrying . . . the shutdown will soon be over
No matter how the Trump shutdown might currently impact your life, you can stop worrying because it will soon be over.It won’t be Donald Trump who lifts even one of his tiny fingers to put an end to...
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