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Public strongly opposes the Carper/Coons plan to (re)deregulate Wall Street

Public strongly opposes the Carper/Coons plan to (re)deregulate Wall Street

Tom Carper and Chris Coons are currently working to undo everything good that happened after the finical meltdown of 2008. In an attempt to take us back to the bad old days and undo many of the regulatory reforms achieved under Dodd-Frank, Tom Carper and Chris Coons have presented the regulatory roll back as relief to small and regional banks. But that doesn't pass the "If it walks like a duck" test.

West Virginia’s teachers on the front lines of another trickle down failure

Tax cuts for West Virginia's largest businesses somehow did not bring the economic benefits that the state anticipated. As a result, teacher pay in the Mountain State has fallen to the 48th-lowest in the country. In addition to barely getting by, striking teachers point out that West Virginia schools are now dangerously understaffed as younger teachers flee the state in search of a living wage.