Author: Sydney Robinson

Black Fox Anchor Opens Up About Racial Discrimination In Emotional Presser

Black Fox Anchor Opens Up About Racial Discrimination In Emotional Presser

Posted by | Apr 26, 2017 | , , |

Amid multiple scandals involving sexual harassment, Fox News is now grappling with major accusations of “systemic and institutional racial bias,” against black employees of the network. Just days after Fox star Bill O’Reilly was forced out of the network due to a mass exodus of advertisers related to his history of sexual harassment, Fox Anchor Kelly Wright has come forward to express what he suffered while at Fox. Wright’s comments come shortly after a lawsuit was announced against Fox by several former black employees alleging racial discrimination. Wright, too, said he experienced this same discrimination, despite enjoying his work...

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Republicans Remove Pre-Existing Condition Mandate From New Obamacare Replacement

Republicans Remove Pre-Existing Condition Mandate From New Obamacare Replacement

Posted by | Apr 26, 2017 | , |

After a stinging defeat of their first attempt to dismantle the ACA and replace it with a Republican-approved healthcare bill, Republicans are trying again, this time abandoning the most popular aspect of the ACA in order to cut costs. As Republicans quickly learned during their first attack on the ACA, the one thing that the American people simply will not tolerate is any tampering with an element of the Affordable Care Act that has been vital to so many: a mandate which requires insurance companies to cover all paying customers, regardless of their existing health issues. When this element...

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U.S. Senator Argues Wearing “A Tutu to a Bar” is “Asking For” a Beating

U.S. Senator Argues Wearing “A Tutu to a Bar” is “Asking For” a Beating

Posted by | Apr 26, 2017 | , |

A U.S. Senator in Wyoming said this week that those who do not conform to traditional gender roles are asking for violent reactions and beatings. Senator Mike Enzi was speaking to a group of middle-and-high school students this week when he responded to a question about LGBT rights by arguing that people who act outside societal norms are “asking for it,” when it comes to violent reactions. Enzi’s outdated views were exposed when he was asked by a student about what he and his colleagues were doing to improve the lives of LGBT residents of Wyoming. “What work are...

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White House Tells Pelosi It May Force ACA to Implode By Refusing to Fund It

White House Tells Pelosi It May Force ACA to Implode By Refusing to Fund It

Posted by | Apr 26, 2017 | |

When President Donald Trump and a Republican Congress failed to repeal or replace the Affordable Care Act, President Trump promised that the program would soon begin to implode on its own. It appears clear now that even if the ACA does not implode naturally, Trump and Republicans will attempt to commit it to a slow death by suffocation.  Speaking to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said that they may be stopping all federal subsidies and payments towards the ACA as soon as next month, cutting significant funding and forcing insurance companies to ratchet...

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Senator Sanders Introduces Senate Bill Calling For $15 Minimum Wage

Senator Sanders Introduces Senate Bill Calling For $15 Minimum Wage

Posted by | Apr 26, 2017 | , , , |

Senator Bernie Sanders is taking a second attempt at proposing a minimum wage bill on the Senate floor which, if passed, would mandate that the minimum wage nationwide be extended from $7.25 hourly to $15 hourly, more than doubled. The bill is being introduced by Independent Senator Sanders of Vermont and Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington and is being called the The Raise the Wage Act of 2017. In an announcement made to an energized crowd in D.C. on Wednesday morning, the Senator announced his new bill which would immediately boost the national minimum wage to $9.25, then increase...

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