The lack of accountability is stunning.

"[The Department of Defense] is effectively acknowledging that it misled Congress and the public in its budget submission."

-Todd Harrison, Center for Strategic and International Studies

http://insidedefense.com/share/181524

This month the US Census released new poverty data showing that for the first time in years, more people escaped poverty. Were widespread hikes in the minimum wage the key?

This is exactly the reason we have government – so that we all pitch in for things that benefit us all. It’s nice to see Congress begin to recognize that reality.

It's International Day of Peace - let's acknowledge the U.S.'s disproportionate responsibility for making changes to create the peaceful world we all wish to see. #InternationalDayofPeace2016

We prefer pie, but there's some truth here.

Word.

Epic. Fail.

File under: When government drops the ball, sometimes a private citizen will pick it up.

Our kind of thinking: $33 per taxpayer to make college more affordable. Where do we sign up?

We need the estate tax to help guarantee a bright future - for all of us.

Even the Pentagon thinks Congress' budget gimmicks have gone too far.

Flint, Michigan has suffered long enough.

The Senate will vote this week on a $9 billion water infrastructure bill that would include a long-overdue $220 million in emergency aid for cities like Flint. #NoMoreLead #DoYourJob

Our nation is in desperate need of infrastructure updates, starting with safe drinking water for places like Flint, Michigan.

The Senate is expected to vote this week on whether to spend $220 million to help cities with unsafe drinking water. #NoMoreLead

For every dollar invested in early childhood education programs, society benefits to the tune of $8.60, "about half of which comes from increased earnings for children when they grow up," a 2012 report from the Council of Economic Advisers found.

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Apple has to pay $14 billion in back taxes to the European Union. If the U.S. changed our tax policy to stop U.S. corporations from stashing profits offshore, we could send every American college student to school. For free.

One answer to this problem: fix our tax code so the wealthiest pay their fair share.

If the US worked harder to close corporate tax loopholes – not even all of them, just the ones that allow US-based corporations to stash profits offshore – we could use the resulting revenues to give every current American college student a full, four-year scholarship to a public university.