"Words that make actions speak louder."
Legislation introduced Tuesday would restart unemployment benefits for more than 3 million unemployed. But what the long-term unemployed really want and need is our focus on creating more jobs.
There are Republican candidates and pollsters “who get this new populism,” Celinda Lake told The New Populism Conference last week. If Democrats don’t effectively align themselves with the populist mood, Republicans will.
“Trying to go dollar for dollar with these Republicans is a losing strategy,” says the co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “Get out in the street and talk to the people.”
The latest report that middle-income households are falling behind the counterparts in some other developed countries should embolden Democratic candidates to offer bolder, progressive populist prescriptions.
At the end of 2013 a pack of corporate tax breaks that long ago should have been weeded out of the tax code finally expired. Today is a good day to tell Congress to stop trying to revive these tax zombies.
The battle over the principles and policies in the Progressive Caucus budget, contrasted against the federal budget proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, will continue all the way through the November elections.
The latest proposal from the House Budget Committee chairman is less April Fool’s joke and more cruel hoax. This budget – and more importantly, the values and priorities that it enshrines – must be challenged.
A message to House Speaker John Boehner: Trying to support yourself and a budding teen-ager on virtually no income in a job market that is openly hostile to older workers? That’s unworkable.
The nomination not only breaks a glass ceiling, but places at the helm of the Fed a person who is “committed to both sides of the Fed’s dual mandate” to drive unemployment downward as well as keep inflation low.
Enron billionaire John Arnold has teamed up with an arm of the Pew Charitable Trusts in a nationwide march to dismantle public pension benefits – while protecting tax giveaways to corporations and the wealthy.