Column: Trump’s tax cut was a mammoth fraud Steve Chapman Chicago Tribune December 21, 2019
95 environmental rules being rolled back under Trump Nadja Popovich, Livia Albeck-Ripka and Kendra Pierre-Louis New York Times December 21, 2019
How a Trump tax break to help poor communities became a windfall for the rich Jesse Drucker and Eric Lipton New York Times August 31, 2019
A multibillion-dollar tax break that is supposed to help low-income areas has fueled a wave of developments financed by and built for the wealthiest Americans.
An editorial in the New York Times sets out important ways in which worker’s rights have been reduced in the Trump administration. These include: easing the ability of firms to classify workers as temporary workers, thus eliminating the protections that full time workers have in law, restricting collective bargaining in various ways, limiting the ability of workers at franchised businesses to pursue claims against the franchiser, and failing to adequately enforce existing laws, such as OSHA.
Trump’s war on worker rights Editorial Board New York Times June 3, 2019 (opinion).
Robert Reich points out that about 25 percent of American workers are now temporary workers, eliminating protections that ordinary jobs have including “a minimum wage, unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation for injuries, employer-provided Social Security, overtime, family and medical leave, disability insurance, or the right to form unions and collectively bargain.”
The jig is up on the gig economy Robert Reich Truthdig June 5, 2019 (opinion)
California to ban controversial pesticide, citing effects on child brain development Reed Anderson and Juliet Eilpern Washington Post May 8, 2019
Why both major political parties have failed to curb dangerous pesticides Elena Conis Washington Post April 9, 2019
How regulators, Republicans and big banks fought for a big increase in lucrative but risky corporate loans Damian Paletta Washington Post April 9, 2019
