News & Views | Sanders' Plan to Guarantee Every American a Job

A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) to view this message in a browser window. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) [] [] [] News & Views | 4/23/18 [] Feature... [] [Embracing 'the Sort of Bold Thinking We Need,' Sanders to Introduce Plan to Guarantee Every American a Job](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) 1f9d0/ct2_1/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w by Jake Johnson, staff writer With the goal of eliminating "working poverty and involuntary unemployment," driving up wages, and curtailing income inequality, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is reportedly planning to introduce a federal jobs guarantee that would provide decent-paying employment to every American "who wants or needs... [] [] News... [] [Urgent Demands for Congress to Act as Net Neutrality's "Slow and Insidious" Death Begins](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) 1f9d0/ct3_1/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w by Jake Johnson, staff writer Today is the day that net neutrality's "slow and insidious" death at the hands of the Republican-controlled FCC officially begins, and Congress is facing urgent pressure to save the open internet before it's too late. --------------------------------------------------------------- [As Wave of Teacher Strikes Slated to Continue, GOP State Lawmakers Aim to Jail Protesters](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) [Colorado teachers ](1f9d0/ct4_1/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer While teachers in Arizona and Colorado plan to demonstrate later this week to demand higher salaries and greater government investment in the public education system, GOP state lawmakers are aiming to punish protesters, even as new polling shows the majority of Americans support paying teachers more. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Pressure Works': Kamala Harris Becomes Fifth Likely Democratic 2020 Contender to Swear Off Corporate Cash](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) 1f9d0/ct5_1/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w by Julia Conley, staff writer Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) followed the lead of Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday when she announced that she would reject donations from corporate PACs, just a few weeks after a town hall attendee pointedly questioned her about her stance on such contributions. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Your financial support during our Spring campaign is critical to our survival. Without you we wouldn't exist.](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) [Take me to the donation form](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) [] [] [Federal Court Blocks Trump's "Bizarre Attempt to Encourage Toxic Tailpipe Pollution"](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) [Traffic in San Antonio](1f9d0/ct8_1/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer A federal court on Monday stopped another of the Trump administration's attacks on clean air—its indefinite delay of stricter penalties for automakers producing vehicle fleets that don't meet federal fuel efficiency standards. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Illegally' Turning Back on Refugees, Trump Orders DHS to Bar Migrants Fleeing Violence From Entry](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) 1f9d0/ct9_1/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w by Julia Conley, staff writer Immigrant rights groups slammed President Donald Trump on Monday after he ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to turn away several dozen immigrants who were approaching the U.S.-Mexico border, after they'd spent weeks traveling from Central America. --------------------------------------------------------------- [In Decline "Invariably of Humanity's Making," 1 in 8 of World's Bird Species Threatened by Extinction](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) [Puffin](1f9d0/ct10_1/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer The world's 11,000 bird species are in the midst of a major biodiversity crisis—with one in eight threatened by extinction—because of human activity, according to a five-year study published Monday. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) [] [] Views... [] [I’m an Expat US Scientist – and I’m Returning to Trump’s America to Stand Up for Science](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) [A snapper surrounded by wary surgeonfish on Palmyra Atoll. (Photo: Elizabeth Madin, CC BY-ND) ](1f9d0/ct12_1/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) by Elizabeth Madin Across all policy areas, Trump has shown clear disdain for expertise and facts. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Carnage Unleashed: DoD & AUMF](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) ["Endless war is the destruction of civil society. Yet, like the 2001 & 2002 AUMFs, the 2018 proposed bill has no time limit," the author writes. (Photo: Dandelion Salad/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct13_1/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) by William Cohn American people should see death on their doorstep, given the global slaughter wrought in their name. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Nobody Should Have Hog Poop on the Walls of Their Home](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) ["The fact that North Carolina citizens have to go to court to keep bacteria from hog poop off of their homes (because their elected officials have sided with factory farms) is a perfect example of what is wrong with our food system." (Photo: Southwings) ](1f9d0/ct14_1/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) by Krissy Kasserman Rather than let the hog farms next door ruin their lives, North Carolinians are fighting back against Smithfield Foods. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why Young People Are Joining Unions Again](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) ["They experience suffocating levels of student debt alongside declining wages and income equality while watching companies monopolize entire industries, and sometimes even nationwide elections." (Photo: Lady Buffalo/cc/flickr)](1f9d0/ct15_1/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) by Hannah Finnie They are frustrated by a system whose cracks were etched into place by preceding generations, but have only fully metastasized for theirs. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Far Right Groups Are Stumbling, But Their Rhetoric Is More Mainstream Than Ever](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) [Trump supporters rally on the National Mall, 2017 (Kelly Bell/Shutterstock.com)](1f9d0/ct16_1/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) by Juliette Legendre In a sense, the Republican Party has become a much more powerful instrument of white rage than the alt-right. --------------------------------------------------------------- [How the Klan Act of 1871 is Fighting Voter Intimidation Today](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) ["With GOP operatives whipping up fears about alleged voter fraud, intimidation complaints surged in 2016, with elections watchdogs receiving thousands of calls about voter intimidation and suppression on Election Day." (Photo: Scout Tufankjian / Polaris)](1f9d0/ct17_1/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) by Billy Corriher "Trump has made an escalating series of statements, often racially tinged, suggesting that his supporters should go to particular precincts on Election Day and intimidate voters." --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AIMJp0yx3w) [] [] Newswire... [] [New Posters Highlight Sen. 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