"Words that make actions speak louder."
Progressive populists are going to have to get loud and get active – and this is a good week to do so. An adequately and honestly funded infrastructure plan is essential to a “jobs for all” agenda.
As has been true for the past few months, you have to get below the sunny top lines of the April jobs report to get the real story: We’re still have a slack labor market, and right-wing austerity is the cause.
If you believe the latest fears emanating from the right-wing fever swamps, President Obama is coming to take away your Christmas lights. Here’s the shocking truth.
Economist Jared Bernstein disagrees with the administration’s decision to not address currency manipulation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement being negotiated with 11 other trading partners.
“Our results are inconsistent with the view that cuts in top state income tax rates will automatically or necessarily generate growth,” says a report from the Tax Policy Center.
The conservative argument that declining marriage rates contribute to high rates of poverty is a hardy perennial. Yet there are 15 million poor people in married households. Facts are stubborn things.
Several progressive organizations are lining up today in support of the Raise the Wage bill introduced by Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Robert Scott. Meanwhile, Fight for $15 activists plan their next action.
Voters support a role for the federal government “in ensuring that every person who wants to work has a job and a good standard of living,” according to a report by pollster Celinda Lake.
The struggles of central Baltimore communities that are now part of the national conversation highlight the urgency of a “Good Jobs for All” campaign that will be launched today by the Center for Community Change.
The list is part of a letter the organization sent to Congress urging members to oppose the fast-track bill sponsored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).