"Words that make actions speak louder."
With groups allied around the Populism2015 platform “for people and the planet,” we have a North Star for organizing and building coalitions, and a yardstick for measuring any candidate running for office.
Wednesday’s “Fight for $15” actions fit into what has become a much larger effort to repair and reshape an American economy that for workers is fundamentally broken – a key theme at this weekend’s Populism2015 conference.
Listen to economist Jared Bernstein correct the record about unemployment and inflation, and explain why “jobs for all” should be a rallying cry for progressives as we approach the 2016 presidential campaign.
A plan by the Obama administration to pay for transportation projects with proceeds from a tax break awarded to companies hoarding profits overseas leaves too much needed money on the table, says a new report.
This movement that started with fast-food workers in 2012 is now expanding to include a whole range of occupations, ranging from health care workers to adjunct professors, say organizers.
Both the House and Senate have now passed budget resolutions that offer comfort and protection to the wealthy and powerful and more discomfort and vulnerability to everyone else.
The Senate today launched into what’s known inside the Beltway as a “vote-a-rama.” We already know how this drama ends when it comes to actions that would advance the goal of shared prosperity.
The People’s Budget picked up 95 votes, a larger share of votes from the House Democratic caucus than its predecessors in previous years. Republicans, not surprisingly, were unanimous in opposition.
A vote for the People’s Budget is a declaration that Democrats are willing to take away the power of conservatives and their moneyed benefactors to draw the limits of the politically possible.
Another reason to oppose fast-tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership: The struggle in towns like Ferguson, Mo., to overcome racial and economic barriers is hard enough without another wrong-headed trade pact.