According to a new Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll: Initially, 83% of the public say they favor allowing the federal government to negotiate with drug companies to lower drug prices on behalf of people enrolled in Medicare beneficiaries and private plans. This includes 91% of Democrats, 85% of independents, and 76% of Republicans, as … Read more
Update to Child Tax Credit Payments Begin Today – Thank A Democrat: Today (July 15), families across the country will see the first payments from the Child Tax Credit expansion enacted in the American Rescue Plan – $3,600/year for kids under 6 and $3,000/year for kids over 6. Unlike the 2017 Trump tax cuts for … Read more
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver nailed it last night. NSFW language (hey, it’s John Oliver).
Background: Greta Garbo was a Swedish-born American film star of the silent era. Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), brought her to Hollywood in 1925. With Garbo’s first “talkie” film, Anna Christie (1930), MGM marketers enticed the public with the tagline “Garbo talks!” Garbo’s most famous movie quote was delivered in the 1932 … Read more
Lincoln Mitchell, who teaches in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, writes at CNN, Manchin and Sinema are hurting their party more than any Republican ever could: After a failed, all-day scramble to get the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed on Thursday, President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda is in jeopardy … Read more