Daily Clips: April 26, 2017
Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves? Revival of Contested Theory: “Contested”
Obama’s getting paid $400k to speak for a Wall St investment bank: This made me so angry. Here’s a guy that clearly has no bloody clue about how to appeal to a nation that is mired in economic inequality. Maybe now that he’s president he doesn’t care, but if that’s the case, he’s half the man I thought.
Sanders and 21 Democrats introduce bill to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour
The Raise the Wage Act of 2017, which Sanders and Murray will unveil later today, would hike the minimum wage for the first time in a decade, raising it to $9.25 immediately, and inching it up to $15 by 2024, while simultaneously raising the minimum wage for tipped workers.
Why regulators won’t confront big banks
America’s rich get richer and the poor get replaced by robots
The U.S. makes it easy for parents to get college loans—repaying them is another story
