Trump has consistently claimed that exporters, those countries who are “ripping us off,” are paying the tariffs. However, the actual data tell a different story.
Far from earning living wages, most U.S. workers have experienced wage stagnation since the 1970s--a trend largely obscured by political rhetoric and misinformation.
Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s (sometimes) left-leaning president, has spearheaded a plan to keep some of that country’s oil in the ground, in exchange for international payments to be used for sustainable energy. Read more »
A new analysis of the dollars disbursed in the bailout of Wall Street graphically illustrates the extraordinary lengths to which the federal government has gone to bail out the financial sector. Read more »
