Trump’s Indiana Taxpayer $$ Investment in Carrier Worked Well, Didn’t It?

— by Aaron Rupar, Journalist at ThinkProgress | Twitter: @atrupar As part of the deal President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence struck with Carrier, the company has promised to make a $16 million investment in its Indianapolis facility — an investment management

BREAKING: The Biggest Legal Attack On Unions In Decades Is Dead

— by Ian Millhiser When the Supreme Court met last January to hear an aggressive attempt to defund public sector unions, the news looked grim for organized workers. All five of the Court’s conservatives seemed ready to accept the plaintiffs’ legal arguments, a

Legally Married and Legally Fired

— by CAP Action War Room The Fight For Equal Rights For LGBT Americans Does Not End At Marriage We’ve been talking a lot about a certain Supreme Court case over the past month, with the Affordable Care Act under attack for

The Jobs Report In 5 Charts

A Remarkably Positive Jobs Report, With A Reminder That There’s More To Do — by CAP ACTION WAR ROOM, posted on 12/5/2014   The November jobs report was released today, and it brought a lot of good news. The U.S. economy added 321,000 jobs

The NRCC Stoops to New Fraudulent Lows

The National Republican Congressional Committee is tricking would-be Democratic campaign donors into making donations to defeat the candidates they support — with Republican websites that look like they could easily be the campaign pages of Democratic candidates.  Unless site visitors read the

State Efforts To ‘Reclaim’ Our Public Lands Traced To Koch-Fueled ALEC

By Public Lands Team on Mar 11, 2013 at 12:33 pm By Jessica Goad and Tom Kenworthy via CAP and ThinkProgress Despite the many problems that states and municipalities face today—from budget shortfalls to unemployment—seven western states have decided to embark on