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We Need A New Hampshire Senate That Puts People Above Big Business
This week the Republican controlled State Senate chose to put business profits ahead of working families, by voting to cut taxes for big business. The New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute reported,...
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Ben Cohen Speaks About Corporations Buying Our Politicians At #WeRise Event...
About 40 activists gathered at the New Hampshire State House as part of the nationwide #WeRISE Day of Action. Stamp Stampede’s Ben Cohen speaks at “We Rise” Action at State House National Day of Action...
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US is STILL Redistributing Wealth to the Rich
Friday’s Motley Fool had an eye-opening article about $35.5 billion of stock buybacks recently announced by Big Banks. That’s $35.5 billion of profits being “returned to stockholders” rather than being...
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Granite State Rumblings: The Federal Budget Process And A Few Of The Proposed...
I spent last week in Washington, DC. Two of those days I attended the National Association for the Education Young Children’s (NAEYC) public policy conference. We met with Congressional staff and...
View ArticleOn The Senate Floor, Jeanne Shaheen Urges Action On Her Amendments To Trade Bill
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – During floor debate today about the Trade Promotion Authority legislation currently under consideration by the U.S. Senate, Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) urged her colleagues to...
View ArticleNH Senate Republicans Force Through Their Reckless Budget
“Senate Republicans’ Unbalanced Budget Will Hurt Small Businesses And Middle Class Families, Take NH’s Economy Backward,” said NH Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley Concord, NH – The Senate today...
View ArticleThe AFL-CIO Ramps Up Pressure Ahead Of Fast Track Vote
Fight for Working Families Hits Television, Radio, Digital (Washington, DC) – The AFL-CIO is ramping up efforts to stop Fast Track with a targeted advertising blitz against undecided members of...
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How Much Money Will Corporations Spend Trying to Buy Votes for the TPP/ Fast...
Stamp Stampede founder Ben Cohen with members of the NH Alliance for Retired Americans. THIS is why I’m working for the Stamp Stampede trying to #GetMoneyOut of politics. Because most of the stories...
View ArticleGov Hassan Continues to Stress the Need for Responsible, Compromise Budget at...
Governor Hassan: Business Tax Cuts Must Be Paid For, Cannot Come at the Expense of Critical Economic Priorities NASHUA – At the Nashua Chamber of Commerce State of the State breakfast, Governor Maggie...
View ArticleGranite Staters Speak Out In Support Of Hassan And Budget Veto
Businesses, Advocates And Elected Officials Stand With Governor Hassan As She Fights For A Fiscally Responsible Budget That Protects Economic Priorities Tom Strickland, owner of Sequoya Technologies...
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The Consumer Federal Protection Bureau Needs To Be Stronger On Title Loan Abuses
In Birthday Message to CFPB, Granite State Organizing Project and United Valley Interfaith Project, Call for Strong Action against Car Title Lending Abuses Five years after the enactment of the law...
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Why You Should Care about Stock Buybacks – in 3 Charts
For decades, we’ve been letting the GOP tell us that corporate tax cuts could somehow fix our economy and balance the budget. Turns out: corporations have been using that extra money to buy back their...
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Billion$ (Trillion$) Down the Drain: Verizon as a case study of what’s wrong...
These days, most corporations indulge in stock buybacks. A buyback – or, “share repurchase” – is exactly what it sounds like. Executives decide to use corporate money to buy back shares of stock,...
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Verizon Proves Exactly What Is Wrong With Our Economy
Cui Bono (Who Benefits)? Verizon as a case study of why the economy doesn’t work, part 2 Who benefits when executives decide to spend corporate funds on stock buybacks? In my last post: In February,...
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“Dividend” is Just Another Word for Payout
Verizon as a case study of why the economy doesn’t work, part 3 Photo by Stand Up To Verizon via Flickr Once upon a time, dividends were how corporations distributed excess profits to shareholders....
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Here We Go Again, Another Government Shutdown.
Image by Brunswyk WikiCommons Are we really going to do this again? In 2013, we as a country endured the 16 day government shutdown that cost taxpayers $24 billion dollars. Tea Party extremists led by...
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How Do CEOs Make Millions When The Company Goes Belly Up? Investing In...
Verizon as a case study of what’s wrong with our economy, part 4 Photo by Tilemahos Efthimiadis via Wikimedia Commons Remember Enron? Remember when George Bush selected Enron executive Thomas White to...
View ArticleAmerican Family Voices Campaign To Unite Progressives On Economic Agenda
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Rep. Raul Grijalva, progressive movement advocates, and business leaders make the argument for a progressive economic...
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Verizon Borrows Money To Pay Stockholders And Executives While Demanding...
Verizon as a case study of what’s wrong with our economy, part 5 Photo by Stand Up to Verizon via FlickrIt’s a math problem, instantly recognizable by anybody who’s tried to balance a family budget...
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Does Not Address Currency Manipulation, Says Scott...
Former Factory Closed (Image Michael Coghlan) Yesterday the eleven nations of the Pacific Rim said they have come to an agreement with the United States on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The details...
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