In a ruling released on Monday, the Supreme Court overturned a Montana state law banning corporate political expenditures and affirmed their decision on Citizens United, that political contributions fall under First Amendment speech rights.
The following infographic was created by Jason at Frugal Dad to show that almost everything Americans read, watch, or listen to about news, politics, and public policy comes from news.
Organizers hoped to get American students and workers, across the country, to take the day off in order to demonstrate against income inequality and unjust corporate practices.
The traditional partisan debate over whether to raise or cut taxes ignores an independent solution that should at least be tolerable to both sides: make the high-income earners– especially corporations– pay their taxes in the first place.
Apple says they will keep $60 billion parked in offshore tax havens until taxes on the money are greatly lowered when it is repatriated.
A highly contentious initiative blocking unions from making political contributions via automatic payroll deductions will be on the ballot in November 2012. In what promises to be a turbulent, divisive.
Here’s an interesting statistic: at the University of California, a journalism project called the California News Service performed an analysis of the past 10 U.S. Congressional elections in California and determined that incumbents have won 97% of their races.
