Today, the House of Representatives will be voting on the Financial CHOICE Act (H.R. 10), an all-out attack on the Dodd-Frank Act by House Republicans. The Financial CHOICE Act is a crude attempt to deregulate financial and consumer markets and green-light America’s next financial crisis, putting millions of Americans on the hook for the next bailout. This legislation is packed with deregulatory handouts to every kind of financial institution, including large banks who want to return to the excessive borrowing and risky banking practices that led to the financial crisis.

This report follows President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, impacting millions of Americans who are employed in the clean energy economy. The report outlines how the application of energy efficiency technologies creates well-paying jobs, lowers government spending, saves consumers and businesses money, increases competitiveness for businesses, and reduces carbon emissions. Congress must now invest in projects and research that foster job growth and the expansion of the energy efficiency economy.

To keep tabs on the current administration’s jobs numbers, a comparison between the May jobs report under President Trump and the average jobs report in the late 1990’s.

Joint Economic Committee Democrats released a new report on the economic costs of corruption. Although corruption is not a concept we are familiar with discussing in the context of the contemporary American politics, President Trump has begun to undermine the norms and institutions that enable not only our democracy to function, but also our economy.