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Damning outline of Russian interference blows up claim the Kremlin is merely sowing chaos: The objective is to ‘reelect Trump’

AlterNet logoThe Center for American Progress’ Moscow Project website was an informative source of information during former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, and the Moscow Project has continued to analyze the Trump/Russia connection during the 2020 presidential election. In an article published on February 25, the Moscow Project stresses that the Kremlin has a favorite in this year’s election — President Donald Trump — and will do everything it can to help him win a second term.

“Russia’s main objective in 2020 is the same it was in 2016,” the Moscow Project warns. “That objective isn’t simply to sow discord; it is, as the U.S. intelligence concluded in 2017, to elect Donald Trump.”

According to the Moscow Project, it is “absurd” to think that the Russian government won’t interfere in the 2020 election just as it interfered in the 2016 election. Continue reading.

New Data Illustrate the Failure of the Trickle-Down Experiment

On June 29, 2015, Brendan Duke with the Center for American Progress wrote the following:

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New statistics confirm what middle-class Americans have known for years: The economic recovery barely applies to them. University of California, Berkeley, economist Emmanuel Saez has updated his frequently cited income data and the picture they paint of the recovery is as predictable as it is discouraging. As of 2014, the top 1 percent of Americans have seen 58 percent of the gains in the economic recovery, while the average real income of the bottom 90 percent has grown just 1.6 percent since the recovery began in 2009.

It has not always been this way. These developments have been a natural experiment in trickle-down economics—the theory that tax cuts, deregulation, and the destruction of basic labor protections would unleash a wave of economic growth. The experiment has failed.

See data on the impact of the trickle-down experiment on income growth.

The Relationship Between Student Debt and College Completion

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On June 29, 2015, Ben Miller with the Center for American Progress wrote the following:


While it is easy to bemoan high levels of student debt and big numbers—such as the more than $1 trillion that Americans currently owe—debt itself is not inherently bad if it allows students to earn high-quality degrees and credentials that they could not otherwise afford. The major issue is whether students who borrowed completed their education. In other words, it is far better to be a bachelor’s degree graduate with $28,400 in loans—the national average in 2013—than a dropout who owes $10,000.

To measure the relationship between debt and college completion, the Center for American Progress conducted an analysis that compared the total amount of student loan debt owed in each state with the number of adults ages 18 or older who earned at least an associate’s degree. The analysis indicates that the average debt of student borrowers can often be misleading. In some states, small debt burdens for borrowers look much worse given low levels of postsecondary attainment. In other states, a high average debt for borrowers may not be as concerning because so many residents are earning postsecondary degrees.

See data on student loan debt per borrower and per graduate in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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