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MassLive.com
March 13, 2018
Damon Silvers, the policy director and special counsel for the AFL-CIO, and Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, also raised concerns about the bank bill provision. Silvers said he could not think of a "more outrageous provision to insert in a bill," contending it would effectively repeal theÃâà...
Romper
December 29, 2017
They will likely then put the money back into the economy, according to Damon Silvers, a policy director for the AFL-CIO, a union organization. Silvers told NPR: It puts money in motion. We've seen the distribution of income and wealth skew very much to the top of the income scale. The fact is that richÃâà...
The Hill
December 5, 2017
These days, it's hard to keep straight all of Congress' efforts to build plutocracy — the further consolidation of the power of the richest Americans at the expense of the rest of us. With the Senate passing a multi-trillion dollar job-killing giveaway of our tax dollars to the people and companies who need it least,Ãâà...
Newsweek
November 15, 2017
“We've already seen that this bill is a job killer in terms of outsourcing and these issues of timing around tax deductions for human capital versus physical capital seem likely to make it even more of a job killer,” AFL-CIO policy director Damon Silvers told Newsweek. In December 2016, Trump told employeesÃâà...
Newsweek
November 3, 2017
said AFL-CIO Policy Director Damon Silvers with a laugh when told of the income classifications by the GOP. "[Republicans] think that the income level of the top 1 percent is lower- and middle-class. This is a world where if you make less than $500,000, you don't exist." There is no formal definition of theÃâà...
CoinDesk
October 16, 2017
Issued by Damon Silvers, director of policy at the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, to Adam Ludwin, the CEO of blockchain startup Chain, the pointed comment set off a tense exchange at a meeting of the SEC's Investor Advisory Committee (IAC) last week.
www.waterstechnology.com
October 13, 2017
At the same hearing, Damon Silvers, director of policy and special counsel for AFL-CIO, and a member of the SEC's Investor Advisory Committee, said that his bubble alarm was at “Defcon 5,” and proceeded to ask a series of blunt questions about the legal recourse that people have in terms of digitalÃâà...
The Hill (blog)
February 11, 2017
President Trump came into office on a wave of promises to look out for regular, working Americans, make the rich pay their fair share and “Make America Great Again.” That was what old time con men would call "the set up". But you can only call what has happened next "the sting". President Trump has putÃâà...
TIME
December 1, 2016
Pope Francis has told us that “Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person.” Most people spend the majority of their conscious lives engaged in work—though we often fail to recognize all the kinds of work people do around the globe, not just in factories and offices, but in fields and forests and mines,Ãâà...
CNBC.com
July 16, 2012
He is also the deputy chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP and amember of the Securities and Exchange Commission's investor advisory committee. Silvers is also serves on the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's standing advisory group and investor advisory group.
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