Maybe, just maybe, the action taken by the Kansas legislature last week to end the massive tax cuts pushed by Governor Brownback and enacted five years ago will wake up Congressional Republicans to the folly of massive tax cuts for the wealthy as a means of economic growth.
State-by-state graphics showing how many jobs each state would lose under TrumpCare with comparisons to state industries. Graphic data is from Economic Policy Institute’s new report “How many jobs could the AHCA cost your state?”
In 2015 alone, opioid overdoses killed more than 33,000 Americans. To see how the opioid epidemic has affected your state, see JEC fact sheets.
Jun 12 2017
State Opioid Epidemic Fact Sheets
The Joint Economic Committee released state fact sheets with information on how each each state has been impacted by the opioid epidemic. The fact sheets also examine how Medicaid has helped those seeking treatment for substance use disorders.
Today, the House of Representatives will be voting on the Financial CHOICE Act (H.R. 10), an all-out attack on the Dodd-Frank Act by House Republicans. The Financial CHOICE Act is a crude attempt to deregulate financial and consumer markets and green-light America’s next financial crisis, putting millions of Americans on the hook for the next bailout. This legislation is packed with deregulatory handouts to every kind of financial institution, including large banks who want to return to the excessive borrowing and risky banking practices that led to the financial crisis.
Today, the House of Representatives voted on the Financial CHOICE Act (CHOICE), House Republicans’ disastrous proposal to dismantle the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. It seems that House Republicans have already forgotten the wreckage left by the Great Recession and 2008 financial crisis —when 8.7 million Americans lost their jobs, 3.8 million homes were foreclosed on, and households lost $17 trillion in wealth.
Jun 08 2017
Energy Efficiency Powers Economic Opportunities
This report follows President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, impacting millions of Americans who are employed in the clean energy economy. The report outlines how the application of energy efficiency technologies creates well-paying jobs, lowers government spending, saves consumers and businesses money, increases competitiveness for businesses, and reduces carbon emissions. Congress must now invest in projects and research that foster job growth and the expansion of the energy efficiency economy.
Climate change is likely to have profound effects on the health of Americans and our economy.
Republicans like to talk about the importance of policy certainty and the risks associated with uncertainty. President Trump apparently forgot that yesterday when he walked into the White House Rose Garden and declared that the United States was pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
Jun 02 2017
President Trump Job Tracker May 2017
To keep tabs on the current administration’s jobs numbers, a comparison between the May jobs report under President Trump and the average jobs report in the late 1990’s.