How the Trump Organization's Foreign Business Ties Upend U.S. National Security Newsweek

This very important article by Kurt Eichenwald is one of the first to look deeply into the Trump organization and the heap of conflicts of interest and ethical problems that would exist in a Trump presidency. The candidate replies that his kids will run the business while he devotes himself to making America great again. Trump refers to this as a 'blind trust' arrangement, which is technically incorrect. The article also touches on important info on the Clinton Foundation. It's doubtful that this article will have any impact on Trump voters, but any citizen concerned about how a Trump presidency could read it beginning to end.

"The Trump Organization is not like the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the charitable enterprise that has been the subject of intense scrutiny about possible conflicts for the Democratic presidential nominee. There are allegations that Hillary Clinton bestowed benefits on contributors to the foundation in some sort of “pay to play” scandal when she was secretary of state, but that makes no sense because there was no “pay.” Money contributed to the foundation was publicly disclosed and went to charitable efforts, such as fighting neglected tropical diseases that infect as many as a billion people. The financials audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the global independent accounting company, and the foundation’s tax filings show that about 90 percent of the money it raised went to its charitable programs. (Trump surrogates have falsely claimed that it was only 10 percent and that the rest was used as a Clinton “slush fund.”) No member of the Clinton family received any cash from the foundation, nor did it finance any political campaigns. In fact, like the Clintons, almost the entire board of directors works for free."

The 'new liberal economics' is the key to understanding Hillary Clinton's policies VOX

VOX writes that both the Democratic primary and now the general election shows how the party is shifting on the subject of economic policy. Hillary Clinton's policy proposals and the Democratic platform reflect this new thinking.

Key planks now governing the Democratic thinking include:

Inequality is not a regrettable but inevitable byproduct of an efficient economy, nor a temporary, self-correcting trend. It’s driven by policy choices, and new choices can make a difference.

The economy will not simply bounce back from any weaknesses, as was assumed under Alan Greenspan’s Great Moderation. Rather, there are deep structural problems that include a global savings glut and unwillingness by US companies to make investments.

"Nudging" the private market is not always the best way to deliver core goods and economic security. Deploying government services directly can be more effective.

Ivanka Trump on Her Father's New Child Care and Maternity Leave Policy Cosmopolitan

On Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released a child care and maternity leave plan, one that offers new mothers only -- not fathers -- six weeks of paid maternity leave, tax deductions for stay-at-home parents, and dependent care savings accounts for families. America is the only industrialized country in the world that does not offer federally-mandated family leave, an idea that Republicans have lobbied against for decades. The campaign hopes that this idea, supported by a newly-launched Women Empowerment Tour, will help boost its highly-negative image among women voters — a deficit estimated at 65 percent in a late August ABC News/Washington Post poll.

Trump credits his highly-visible daughter, 34-year-old Ivanka Trump, an executive at the Trump Organization, mother of three and fashion designer, as the originator of the new policy. Ivanka joined her father in Pennsylvania on Tuesday evening and published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal outlining the policy. Cosmopolitan.com spoke with Ivanka over the phone Wednesday morning about her father’s new family leave and child care policy in what became a fiery interview.

Asked to explain how his newly stated policy lined up with Donald Trump's 2004 comments lamenting the toll of maternity leave on companies, Ivanka pushed back against the question, accusing the writer of 'editorializing' and questioning her with 'hostility'. At the time, Trump said pregnancy is "a wonderful thing for the woman, it's a wonderful thing for the husband, it's certainly an inconvenience for a business. And whether people want to say that or not, the fact is it is an inconvenience for a person that is running a business."

“My father obviously has a track record of decades of employing women at every level of his company, and supporting women, and supporting them in their professional capacity, and enabling them to thrive outside of the office and within,” she said. “To imply otherwise is an unfair characterization of his track record and his support of professional women.”

“You said he made those comments,” she said. “I don't know that he said those comments.”

Prior to her ending her interview ahead of schedule, the businesswoman was also asked to explain why the family plan did not include paternity leave and how it would apply to gay male couples. A competing plan long-ago published on the Hillary Clinton website includes fathers. In response, Ivanka Trump insisted that her father’s plan was “a giant leap from where we are today,” but acknowledged the priority was on the mother.

“The plan, right now, is focusing on mothers, whether they be in same-sex marriages or not,” she said.

Related: Ivanka Trump Is Lying About Both Candidates' Records on Family Leave New York Magazine

Report: Ivanka Trump wrong about Trump Organization's Leave Policy CNN

Donald Trump's Maternity Leave Proposal Keeps the US in Dead Last Compared To Its Peers Fortune

Back on the campaign trail, Clinton speaks about helping families at NC rally The Washington Post

Hillary Clinton Headlines September 15, 2016

Clinton maintains a narrow lead over Trump YouGov.com

Poll Shows Tight Race for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton New York Times

Clinton's doctor declares her 'fit to serve' as president Politico

Emails show Colin Powell unloading on Clinton, Rumsfeld and Trump Politico

Bill Clinton is no longer the closer Politico

Bernie Sanders Promises 90-95% Of New Jobs To Men

HillaryWomen News shares our validated 2014 statistic that only 1.7% of carpenters nationwide are women — and we doubt cement mixers are any higher, or bricklayers and everyone else associated with rebuilding America’s infrastructure.

Consequently, I am formally redefining the critical argument made as recently as Sunday about Bernie being focused on creating jobs for men.

I was using another feminist’s estimate that 76% of Bernie’s proposed jobs would go to women. Based on doing a bit of research myself just now, I have no idea where she got that projection. Until I clarify that 76% of jobs will go to men in Bernie’s platform (and we have had a formal request out there), I am adopting the arbitrary estimate of 90% of jobs will go to men in Bernie’s proposal (and that may be generous.)

It seems to me that if union members in the construction industries really believed that Bernie could get a trillion $$$ infrastructure through Congress, they would support him. Clearly, they are looking for a more realistic, seasoned candidate with strong alliances in Congress — and on both sides of the aisle — to move America forward.

Progress Takes a Village

Hillary Clinton is not an island onto herself. If the very union members Bernie Sanders promises to protect are supporting Hillary Clinton, I think Bernie believers should take a quiet walk in the woods … or along the water … or in some other quiet and serene place where a reality check about America’s future can take root in your fine, caring, concerned-about-America minds.

These construction-related endorsements are shockers and should be sobering to the Bernie Sanders flock.. ~ Anne

Hillary Endorses WAGE Act

Minutes before — or shortly after receiving her six major union endorsement from the xxx Hillary Clinton tweeted her support for the Workplace Action for a Growing Economy Act — known as the Wage Act — a union-backed bill introduced in Congress last week.

The bill is sponsored by Washington state Senator Patty Murray and Virginia congressman Bobby Scott. Senator Murray endorses Hillary Clinton for president months ago. Scott has not endorsed a 2016 candidate.

‘The act would create new protections for workers who are attempting to unionize and give additional powers to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

If the bill were to pass, it would require the NLRB to go to court on behalf of workers fired for attempting to unionize. It would also establish damages and back pay for such workers, give similar protections to immigrant workers without work authorizations and even establish penalties against employers who violate workers’ rights.”