From: progress@americanprogressaction.org
Date: July 27, 2016 at 03:02PM
The best darn changemaker. July 27, 2016 The real one Walking on broken glass. Leftover from the glass ceiling Hillary Clinton shattered last night when she became the first woman ever to be the official nominee for president of a major political party. Sen. Sanders cast the final roll call vote, bringing unity (and tears) to the Democratic Party. Then President Bill Clinton took the stage to do what he does best. He told his version of When Bill met Hillary and contrasted that with the Republican's caricature of Hillary Clinton. "How does this square with the things you heard at the Republican convention? How do you square it? You can't," he said. "Good for you, because earlier today you nominated the real one." So now what? President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Kaine will take the stage tonight. Here's what else you'll hear about: The economy. More specifically, Obama and Biden's economic legacy. More generally, another reason to say "thanks Obama." The Obama-Biden duo were handed the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression and helped the economy bounce back. Donald Trump, who has filed for bankruptcy at least four times and calls himself the "king of debt," has called the economy under Obama and Biden "a disaster." Unclear what dictionary he's using, since U.S. businesses adding 14.8 million jobs to the economy over a record 76-month streak since 2010 and an unemployment rate below 5 percent hardly seems like "a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship," or "a complete or terrible failure." National Security: Last night we heard from former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright about what it takes to keep America safe and tonight we'll hear from Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and retired Admiral John Hutson. A few things to know about Trump's plans: in a press conference this morning, Trump called on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails—effectively asking them to commit espionage to hurt his political opponent. (More on that here). There is an alarming strategic convergence between Trump's stated views and Russia's authoritarian President Vladimir Putin's primary foreign policy objectives: they both want to undermine NATO; they both want to leave Syrian tyrant Bashar Assad alone; and they both want to prevent US leadership from helping democratic Ukraine. Trump claims to have a "secret plan" to defeat ISIS. But he has disclosed a lot of what he would do and it's all terrifying: think torture, indiscriminate bombing, and Muslim bans. No wonder he's already appearing in ISIS recruiting videos. Trump also wants to abandon NATO and encourage the disintegration of the European Union. Still not convinced he would be a dangerous Commander in Chief? Watch this video. Guns: Yesterday, the mothers of black men, women, and children who have inspired the Black Lives Matter movement brought the crowd to its feet as the room chanted "Black Lives Matter." (The moment stood in stark contrast to this moment at the RNC last week). Today Erica Smegielski, daughter of Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung as well as Felicia Sanders and Polly Sheppard—two of the three survivors of the Mother Emanuel Church shooting in Charleston, SC and former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords will address the crowd. There have been more than 1,000 mass shootings since Sandy Hook. Roughly 91 people are killed with guns every day in the United States. And we have solutions to this problem: background checks have stopped millions of guns from getting into dangerous hands. And a huge majority of Americans—including 83 percent of gun owners and 72 percent of NRA members—support expanding background checks. The problem? The tiny fraction of people who oppose background checks on gun sales happen to be Republicans in Congress. WHAT'S TRENDING Baltimore. Prosecutors dropped all remaining charges against officers in the case over the death of Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody last year. Three more officers were expected to go to trial and three were already acquitted. The lack of charges in this case are another example of how rarely police officers are held accountable for these deaths: In 2015, approximately 1,200 people were killed by police across the country and no officer was convicted of murder or manslaughter. Worker tested, doctor approved. A record number of private-sector workers now have access to at least one day of paid sick leave, according to new data from the Department of Labor. Paid sick days are a pretty obvious example of a win-win situation: workers don't have to put their economic security at risk just to take time off to recover from an illness and employers see a reduction in the spread of illnesses, higher morale, a reduction in turnover and more. These increases are the result of multiple new paid sick days policies that were passed at the state and local level since the last time this data was collected. But still, more than one-third of private sector workers and 61 percent of workers in the bottom earnings quartile don't have access to a single paid sick day. The recent increase helped reduce the inequality in access to paid sick leave, read more about it here. Not building a wall. More Republicans favor a path to citizenship than a wall, according to new polling from Gallup. Two-thirds of Americans oppose Trump's plans to deport all unauthorized immigrants and build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. On the other hand, 84 percent of Americans favor a path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants currently living in the U.S. Roasting the golden coast: It's hot in here. Here being California. Acting Gov. Tom Torlakson has declared a state of emergency and evacuated more than 20,000 residents from their homes as two wildfires rage largely uncontained outside Los Angeles and Big Sur. While wildfires are a familiar danger in California, human-caused climate change is fanning them out of control: a CAP report projects that the cost of fighting wildfires will increase by 80 percent in the next 10 years. That means that the U.S. Forest Service, which is already under-funded, will have to double its spending every year for the next decade to fight worsening fires. Share On Twitter Progress Report | CAP Action Fund 1333 H ST NW | Washington, DC 20005 Contributions to Center for American Progress Action Fund are not tax deductible Donate | Manage Email Options | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe This email was sent to rightbuy18@GMAIL.COM. Did someone forward you this email? Sign up for the Progress Report here.
from Gmail
via IFTTT