upward – Radio Free https://www.radiofree.org Independent Media for People, Not Profits. Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:43:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.radiofree.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-Radio-Free-Social-Icon-2-32x32.png upward – Radio Free https://www.radiofree.org 32 32 141331581 "Most Massive Transfer of Wealth Upward in American History": John Nichols on Trump’s Budget Law https://www.radiofree.org/2025/07/07/most-massive-transfer-of-wealth-upward-in-american-history-john-nichols-on-trumps-budget-law-2/ https://www.radiofree.org/2025/07/07/most-massive-transfer-of-wealth-upward-in-american-history-john-nichols-on-trumps-budget-law-2/#respond Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:55:55 +0000 http://www.radiofree.org/?guid=b957a2f77553bb9d89fc368c5d47cdc2
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President Donald Trump and his allies are celebrating the passage of his sweeping tax and spending bill, which he signed into law on July 4 after a monthslong effort to shepherd it through Congress. Ultimately, just three Republicans in the Senate and two in the House voted against the legislation. The so-called Big, Beautiful Bill includes about $1 trillion in federal cuts to Medicaid and could kick 17 million people off their healthcare. It makes the largest-ever cuts to food assistance benefits, could cause the closure of nursing homes and rural hospitals across the country, raises housing and energy costs, and supercharges the Trump crackdown on immigrants — all while delivering massive tax benefits for the wealthiest people in the country. “This is the most massive transfer of wealth upward in American history,” says John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation.


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]]> https://www.radiofree.org/2025/07/07/most-massive-transfer-of-wealth-upward-in-american-history-john-nichols-on-trumps-budget-law/feed/ 0 543206 A Rocky Road on the Upward Path of Labor Action https://www.radiofree.org/2023/04/12/a-rocky-road-on-the-upward-path-of-labor-action/ https://www.radiofree.org/2023/04/12/a-rocky-road-on-the-upward-path-of-labor-action/#respond Wed, 12 Apr 2023 05:55:05 +0000 https://www.counterpunch.org/?p=279159 The defeat of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union’s two NLRB elections at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, and the Amazon Labor Union’s lost election in Albany, New York, strongly suggest that the NLRB election route to union recognition and a contract cannot replace internal grassroots organization and direct action. More

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