As lawmakers race against time to work out a deal on the
federal budget before the dreaded “fiscal cliff” goes into effect,
protesters on Thursday called on U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin to reject any
plan that results in spending cuts to the country’s social safety net.
More
than 100 demonstrators gathered in Federal Plaza for what organizers
described as their effort to pressure the Democratic lawmaker to stand
firm on a fiscal plan that allows the Bush-era tax cuts to expire
for the top 2 percent of Americans, or those earning more than $250,000
a year.
Protestors were also calling on Durbin, who served on President Barack Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform,
to reject proposed cuts to social programs such as Medicare, Medicaid
and Social Security, saying such a move would have a Great
Depression-style effect for the most vulnerable of Americans.
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Time is running out for more than 300 O’Hare janitors who stand to
lose their jobs by the end of next week as a result of a new city
contract.
Illinois may soon require publicly traded companies to reveal their state income tax payments online.
O'Hare janitors worried about the future of their jobs made a trip to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's house yesterday afternoon to protest a new city contract. The workers rallied outside of the mayor's home on his 53rd birthday to protest the deal that will cause some 300 workers to lose their jobs next month, just days before the holidays.