"Words that make actions speak louder."
TheMiddleClass.org Voter Guide is getting attention this week for its rating 200 members of Congress “zero” on a set of votes it deems reflective of the members’ stands on middle-class concerns. It turns out it was not alone in taking a dim view of the performance of the 112th Congress on kitchen-table issues.
The upcoming presidential debate on foreign policy will undoubtedly feature warnings from Republican candidate Mitt Romney that defense spending cuts from the Obama administration will compromise the nation’s ability to defend itself.
Echoing the memo that Stan Greenberg of Democracy Corps published Monday, I called on President Obama to offer a bold agenda on jobs and the economy on Tuesday night, one that would lay out specific contrasts to the empty suit of the Mitt Romney agenda and would inspire both the progressive ba
Democracy Corps distributed a polling memo Monday that put its finger squarely on a frustration among progressives with President Obama’s campaign for re-election that had been simmering long before his disastrous first debate.
In the wake of an anemic jobs report that his Republican challengers are laying at his feet, President Obama could rightly respond that if he could have signed into law a jobs plan along the lines of what the House Progressive Caucus has proposed for the past two years, we would likely see 2 million more people employed today, and unemployment would be closer to 7 percent rather than above 8 pe
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been all bluster and no action on China’s cheating on trade, Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan said today, and the proof is in a bill that would address China’s cheating that is currently languishing in the House despite broad, bipartisan support.
Republicans won’t abandon the Obama’s-gutting-welfare-reform lie, no matter how often it is discredited.
Today Republicans took the lie to the House floor, in the form of a resolution that would block the implementation of a Health and Human Services memorandum that would give states more flexibility in how they move welfare recipients into meaningful jobs.
The latest edition of the Economic Policy Institute’s “State of Working America” report, out today, documents in sharp detail what has been for the middle-class economy a “lost decade” in which working people have fallen behind.
At least one moderately good thing is coming out of the ideological sewer that is the House of Representatives these days: legislation that will require the executive branch to develop “a strategy to promote growth, sustainability, and competitiveness in the Nation’s manufacturing sector.”
The 2008 financial crash was accompanied by a stunning level of greed and disregard for the law by some of the leading titans of the financial industry. As a result, millions of people lost homes, retirement savings or were otherwise financially devastated.