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From Business Insider: These 7 charts show Trump's tax cuts still haven't been the economic 'rocket fuel' he promised, 2 years after the fact


By Joseph Zeballos-Roig

Two years ago, President Trump accomplished his signature legislative achievement: the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

ICYMI: From the KCEP: What the Finally-Released Actuarial Analysis Tells Us About So-Called Pension Reform

By JASON BAILEY

Executive Director, Kentucky Center for Economic Policy

From the Lexington Herald-Leader: A Republican compared Trump to Jesus. Is there really a parable in impeachment?

By TERI CARTER

I recently found my way back to church. A dear friend was going to be speaking to her congregation about the giving nature of her daughter, an 18 year-old girl who died a few short months ago, and I wanted to support her by being there in the pews. I got there early. I slipped quietly into the back row. And I waited for the service to begin.

From Daily Kos: Michigan steel mill closure announced two days after Trump told Michigan crowd 'steel is back'

By LAURA CLAWSON, for Daily Kos Labor

Donald Trump, Wednesday in Michigan: “Look what I’ve done for steel. I mean, the steel is back. We taxed all the dumb steel coming in from China and other places, and US steel mills are doing great — they’re expanding all over the country, and they were gonna be out of business within two years the way they were going.”

From Daily Kos: It sure is great to be in the top 1%, this week in the war on workers

By LAURA CLAWSON, for Daily Kos Labor

If you’ve been in the workforce since 1979, how much have your wages gone up? If you’re a little younger, how much have the wages for a job like yours gone up in those years? I bet it’s not 157.8%—unless, of course, you’re in the top 1%. 

From the Washington Post: Some gifts I would like to give Trump, Republicans and others

By JENNIFER RUBIN

As we head into the week of Christmas and Hanukkah, I have my holiday gift list ready to go:

For Republican House members: A mirror, so they can see how terrible they look with their faces contorted with anger mid-scream as they rant and rave on the House floor. Perhaps they will consider how unprofessional and mean-spirited they appear.

Paducah CLC raises $10,000 to help brighten Christmas for 100 disadvantaged children.

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

Christmas will be brighter for 100 disadvantaged schoolkids in Paducah, thanks to the Western Kentucky AFL-CIO Area Council.

Londrigan: 'Beer and bluejeans party,' another GOP 'Orwellian twist'

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

Kentucky State AFL-CIO President Bill Londrigan hadn't heard about the Trump reelection campaign bragging that their guy had made the pinstripe-suited GOP "the beer and bluejeans party." 

He laughed when I told him.