
Eileen Appelbaum
@EileenAppelbaum
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Co-Director, @ceprdc. Former Professor Rutgers University and Temple University. Co-author of 'Private Equity at Work' & 'Unfinished Business'
Washington, DC
Joined May 2015
This thread tells all you need to know about Trump's agenda and how it takes from working people to make millionaires and billionaire richer. Is America's biggest problem really that the rich are not rich enough?.
🧵 🚨 BREAKING: Senate just passed Trump's "big ugly bill" 51-50. VP Vance broke the tie. This is the worst tax giveaway to the rich in history while cutting help for regular people. It's that bad. 1/7
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IRR lets PE firms legally lie with numbers. Developed to let CFO compare returns from purchase of new equipment to yield on Treasury bond. Now misused by PE firms and PE industry. Should use PME & most pension funds do privately. But all like the misleading high IRR numbers.
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RT @ceprdc: .@OAS_official has played many roles in #Haiti over the decades. Few have actually helped, though. http….
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RT @PaidLeaveforAll: Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, and 79 percent of them support a national #PaidLeave program. Why? B….
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RT @TCFdotorg: Gov. @JoshShapiroPA has a chance to make history by backing the Family Care Act—a bill that would make PA the first swing st….
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House Reconciliation Bill throws millions off Medicaid and takes food out of the mouths of hungry children, but no tax break for the richest of the rich is too small to be included.
The House tax bill overwhelmingly benefits the wealthiest Americans. Net tax cuts:.$138 billion for top 1% of Americans.$92 billion for bottom 60% of Americans. This will worsen wealth inequality through the tax code.
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RT @DeanBaker13: Since NIH and other research funding doesn't put money in Trump's pocket tomorrow, like a plane from Qatar, he can't under….
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RT @hayleycbbrown: One of NIOSH’s core responsibilities is to test and certify respirators like N95s. Their work is not optional, and we c….
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RT @SenWarren: Thanks to @linamkhan, if you're buying concert tickets or booking a hotel, companies are now required to tell you the full p….
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People agree that Medicaid recipients that can work should be working. What many people don't know is that two-thirds of Medicaid recipients - nearly everyone on Medicaid who is not disabled, pregnant, in school or caring for young children - does work.
As Georgia experience shows, work requirements are a bureaucratic nightmare that only discourage workers from enrolling in Medicaid. Work requirements are best suited for *disenrolling* Medicaid beneficiaries. @ECurchin
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RT @ceprdc: Medicaid is popular with voters across party lines and in every Congressional district. That’s why cuts are hidden behind deman….
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RT @ceprdc: AOC is right - cutting workers off of Medicaid will not mean better care for those unable to work. Savings will go to pay for T….
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RT @PaidLeaveforAll: Today @RepJimmyGomez introduced an amendment to make a tax credit supposedly for paid leave actually support state pai….
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More tax breaks for big corporations is not the way to expand paid family and medical leave to more families. Closing tax loopholes and using the money to benefit working families is popular and the right thing to do.
What’s more, we should be investing, not cutting. 88% of voters support closing corporate tax loopholes and using those funds to invest in paid leave and care, including majorities of independents (81%) and Republicans (79%).
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RT @PaidLeaveforAll: 🧵Voters agree with @WaysMeansCmte approach to paid leave & tax credits. They oppose the 45S "paid leave" tax credit ac….
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Tax breaks for companies mostly go to big firms that already provide paid family and medical leave benefits. They don't help small businesses and they don't help more families get paid leave.
We could enact paid family and medical leave for all working people in America twice over for the cost of the tax cut to the top 0.1%. Americans oppose the 45S "fake leave" tax credit across party lines. We need #PaidLeaveForAll - the real thing!.
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