In the early morning of May 22, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the Trump Administration’s so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ moving the country one step closer to gutting core social programs in favor of tax cuts that benefit higher-income households. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office stated that it “estimates that in general, resources would decrease […]
Tag: Inequality
Trump brings racism back to America’s classrooms
Hot on the heels of his Administration’s April 23 Executive order effectively restoring racism under the guise of ‘equality of opportunity and meritocracy’ in the Civil Service (see: Restoring racism), Trump went one step further that same day and issued an Executive Order for American classrooms to rid them of “unlawful equity ideology” policies. The […]
Restoring racism under the guise of ‘equality of opportunity and meritocracy’
“Our country is going to be based on merit again,” said President Trump in the White House’s official statement on the April 23 signing of an Executive Order to ‘Restore Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy.’ Our, perhaps more appropriate title, may have been Restoring Racism. The sweeping order aims to eliminate the use of disparate-impact […]