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General News    H3'ed 6/19/19

Bosses pocket Trump tax windfall as workers see job promises vanish

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“The evidence continues to mount that the Trump-GOP tax cuts were a scam, a  bait-and-switch promising workers big pay raises,  more jobs & new investments, but largely enriching CEOs.  O nly 4% of the US workforce saw any sort of pay increase or bonus  but data  shows corporations have cut thousands of jobs since the tax cuts were passed, while using tax windfallsto buy back $1tn of their own stock, which primarily benefits corporate execs & wealthy investors since half of all Americans own no stock. . But big firms lobbied for  corporate giveaway this  saying – as AT&T did – that it would fund job-creating expansions.“Nobody here saw any of that benefit; if anything, quite the opposite. They changed our healthcare plans in 2019, so the costs for everyone went up, the costs for prescriptions went up." said Mark Willie, a Wells Fargo office employee in Des Moines, Iowa."

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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