Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/28/goptaxscam-equals-big-win-investors-mass-incarceration Because private prisons are classified as “real estate investment trusts,” investors will get a major tax cut thanks to the Republican tax law Published on Thursday, December 28, 2017 by Common Dreams By Julia Conley, staff writer … Continued
Posted at https://www.chn.org/2017/12/28/value-seeing-treating-poverty-health-issue/#.Wk5wKFWnEdU By James Abro December 28, 2017 In July of this year, Barry Ostrowsky, the CEO of RWJ Barnabas – the largest hospital-based health care provider in New Jersey — sat down with PBS talk-show host Steve Adubato to … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2017-12-28/energy-policy/solar-power-continues-to-grow-in-pa/a60817-1 December 28, 2017 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Installing solar systems will return an estimated 8 to 10 percent on the initial investment. (PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay) HARRISBURG, Pa. – Solar power is … Continued
By Bill McKibben, The New Yorker 24 December 17 Tuesday should have been a day of unmitigated joy for America’s oil and gas executives. The new G.O.P. tax bill treats their companies with great tenderness, reducing even further their federal tax burden. … Continued
From the National Council of Churches (http://www.ncccusa.org): Sign on to the letter below at http://nationalcouncilofchurches.us/nkletter/. Dear President Trump: As people of faith, we write to you out of profound concern over the rise in tensions between the United States and … Continued
Thanks to Jeff Garis at the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center for sharing! 104 years ago today, on January 5, 1914, the Ford Motor Company instituted an 8-hour workday and announced that it would pay “a living wage” of at … Continued