Elizabeth Warren: pensions for middle class workers
Are pensions coming back into fashion? Perhaps, said progressive hero Senator Elizabeth Warren who was in Providence last night at a fundraiser at the Convention Center for her Senate Banking Committee colleague Jack Reed. Hailed as one of Wall Street’s worst nightmares and the intellectual godmother of Occupy Wall Street, Warren told me that public [...]
Real Key To Fixing R.I.’s Business Climate
On Tuesday, amendments to the state’s tax code regarding the corporate income tax rate was reviewed by the Senate Committe on Finance. The amendments, straight from the desk of Gov. Lincoln Chafee, would lower the tax rate on corporate profits from 9 percent to 7 percent over the next three years. While the proponents of [...]
Whitehouse: GOP Holding Middle Class Hostage
“Republicans fighting for millionaires and billionaires is not a new story,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the floor of the US Senate yesterday. It happens to be the current story too. Well, in the case of the fiscal cliff, House Republicans are actually fighting for the 2 percent, or the affluent American families who earn [...]
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