Senior Equitable Development Specialist Jobs with Justice
District of Columbia, USA
Joined June 2013
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Louis DeJoy is destroying the post office. Post offices in central Maine have been out of stamps all week, while nearby grocery stores have more stamps than they need, and get calls from USPS every day asking if they want more. #SaveThePostOffice @SenAngusKing @jacobbogage
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Democratic leadership is pushing for a reconciliation bill with just $555 billion allocated for climate, about $7.8 TRILLION less than the Pentagon budget.
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GOP leaders lowered the corporate tax rate to 21% in 2017. Here's the rate these companies have paid over the three years since:
🏰 Disney: 6.7%
📱 T-Mobile: -0.7%
📦 Amazon: 4.3%
🏦 Bank of America: 3.9%
🚗 GM: 0.2%
🚜 Deere: 6.2%
🍕 Domino's: 7.4%
itep.org/corporate-tax-avoid…
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America's most profitable corporations are avoiding *billions* in taxes. itep.org/corporate-tax-avoid…
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Bezos claims to have invested $7.5B in his new space toy. U.S. taxpayers have invested many times that amount in Amazon through:
💵sales tax loopholes
💵property tax subsidies
💵federal tax avoidance schemes
#TaxTheRich
inequality.org/research/jeff…
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Maybe #VanJones can donate the 100 million Bezos gave him to the IRS to help cover a small amount of the taxes he owes.
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MUST WATCH: Postal workers on @maddow calling us to action to stop Louis DeJoy's 10 year plan to erode service @USPS msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watc… #SaveThePostOffice
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”Our relationship with nature is broken. But relationships can change. When we protect nature - we are nature protecting itself.”
Thank you @MercyForAnimals for sponsoring this film by @tommustill and me.
#ForNature #BiodiversityDay
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Why on earth would @RepMaloney give @repjamescomer language in a @USPS bill that lets Louis DeJoy slow down the mail? #SaveThePostOffice
The soon-to-be-released postal reform bill being negotiated by Carolyn Maloney includes a waiver provision allowing the USPS to effectively set its own delivery standards without Congressional oversight. My report: prospect.org/politics/democr…
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BREAKING: During the pandemic, more than half of the country’s 100 largest low-wage employers bent their own rules to give CEOs 29% avg raises while their frontline employees made 2% less.
More in the new #CEOpay report out today from @IPS_DC: ips-dc.org/report-executive-…
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1/ THREAD: The Biden administration is trying to tackle corporate profit shifting -- the way US multinationals avoid taxes by pushing their profits into offshore havens. I thought it would be useful to post some pieces that show how we got here:
CEO at troubled vaccine plant received 51 percent compensation boost in 2020. Emergent BioSolutions ruined 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine this year and has caused delays in delivery of shots to states. washingtonpost.com/business/…
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In South Korea 🇰🇷, the solar panels in the middle of the highway have a bicycle path underneath - cyclists are protected from the sun, isolated from traffic, and the country can produce clean energy.
You know what would be better than stimulus checks from govt? -- a permanent raise that would come from restoring union jobs -- new study find that corporate war on unions costs typical worker $3,250 a year via @commondreams bit.ly/3muq1r2
This issue brief by @AspenWorkforce, @Aspen_BOI, @RU_SMLR, and @Institute_coop outlines why policymakers, funders, and investors who care about racial and gender wealth #equity should support #employeeownership. aspeninstitute.org/publicati…
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149 school districts gave away $1,000+ in funding per pupil in corp subsidies. Tax abatements given to corporations led to at least $2.37 billion in lost revenue intended for U.S. public school districts in 2019, a new report says. @GoodJobsFirst bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Under @SenSanders' 99.5% Act, US billionaires will pay $2,700,000,000,000 in estate tax. That's $2.7 TRILLION.
Too much? Hardly. It will leave enough for all of them and their next 6 generations of descendants to live extravagantly for the next 200 years or so.
Since 1985, the average Wall Street bonus has increased 1,217 percent, from $13,970 to $184,000 in 2020. If the minimum wage had increased at that rate, it would be worth $44.12 today, instead of $7.25. @jwjnational inequality.org/great-divide/…
How to fund $1.7 trillion 10-year infrastructure bill? Hire more IRS agents and collect the $175 billion in taxes evaded by the top 1% each year. washingtonpost.com/business/…
