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Tax Cuts for the Rich Create Debt, Division, and Despair — Not Jobs

Growing inequality undermines our democracy and turns Americans against each other. A fairer tax system could bring us back together.

A lawsuit over toll booths in Honduras shows how corporate trade policies make life unlivable in poor countries — and send people fleeing north.

Most workers don’t get dedicated paid family leave. Take it from me: That’s terrible for families and needs to change.

When I worked with people experiencing homelessness, I kept hearing about the obstacles to help. Then I experienced them myself.

Doesn’t sound very Christlike, does it?

My family is still financially recovering from the birth of my daughter 14 years ago. Child care and paid leave should be election issues.

When pregnancies go wrong, more men are seeing their partners suffer the horrors of delaying or forgoing care. And they’re speaking out.

Gerrymandering and the filibuster are holding back wage increases, the right to unionize, and other benefits for workers.

GOP officials continue to falsely accuse, harass, intimidate, and even prosecute voters of color. This is quintessential voter intimidation.

Springfield, Ohio’s immigrant influx is a success story, not a scandal. But when powerful people don’t want to share prosperity, they lie.