"Words that make actions speak louder."
We were hoping to get from President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night a bold, galvanizing vision of how the economy could be made to work once again for the 99 percent, the majority of Americans who are being left behind as the nation’s wealth flows upward.
Because our fight for a people-powered democracy and an economy that works for all Americans depends on a free and open Internet, OurFuture.org today is standing in solidarity with the many websites that are protesting two bills pending in Congress that are direct and profound threats to that freedom.
In the fight over what little soul is left of the Republican Party, Mitt Romney has shown his willingness to double down on racial injustice.
“We could use a massive, dramatic confrontation on behalf of the more than 27 million who are unemployed or underemployed today,” I wrote one year ago. “The spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. would certainly be in its midst.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. laid down this marker during his “I Have A Dream” speech in 1963:
Former Campaign for America’s Future staffer Anne Thompson got a scoop this past weekend when she asked presidential candidate Mitt Romney about his position on the minimum wage, and he responded by saying he supported indexing the minimum wage “so it adjusts automatically over time” with inflation. This is not welcome news on the right, […]
Stunning but true: It’s “true Reagan conservative” Newt Gingrich who has asked what should be a fundamental question of the 2012 presidential race: “You have to ask the question, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?”
It may not feel like it, but we dodged a bullet in 2011 when it came to unemployment.
Don’t get too distracted by the fissures in the Republican electorate revealed in Tuesday night’s Iowa caucus vote. On basic economic issues, in fact, the candidates are remarkably united; there’s hardly eight votes worth of difference between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.
Consider House Speaker John Boehner’s U-turn on a temporary extension of a payroll tax holiday a temporary retreat. The tea-party Republicans who lead Boehner show no signs of actually moderating their agenda, and that will make next year’s fight to continue the payroll tax for a full year no less intense than this week’s nail-biter. […]