"Words that make actions speak louder."
On Wednesday, the day before hundreds of Occupy events are scheduled to break out across the country, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus will be holding a hearing highlighting the “jobs, not cuts” theme that is a key part of the Occupy movement. The hearing is designed to underscore the damage that the kinds of […]
According to a document produced by Democrats serving on the congressional deficit-reduction supercommittee, the Democrats are proposing to cut $350 billion from Medicare as part of a $2.3 trillion “grand bargain” to reduce the deficit. It’s time for the people to say “no” to this deal. So we’re asking people who haven’t done so to […]
Many of the efforts around the country to advance an extreme, right-wing, corporatist agenda on the public were repudiated Tuesday night. The message is clear: An informed and energized 99 percent can prevail over those in the 1 percent who are working to strip them of their rights and dash their economic dreams. A strong, […]
The New Bottom Line, one of the organizations leading the “move your money” movement and the national “Bank Transfer Day” on Saturday, announced today that nearly $50 million had been removed from Bank of America and other Wall Street banks. With that as a start, the movement has set a new goal: $1 billion withdrawn […]
On the morning after Senate Republicans blocked consideration of an infrastructure jobs bill, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting that the economy created only 80,000 net jobs during the month of September. The unemployment rate is now 9 percent. The continued anemic performance of the job market represents the continued price of right-wing obstruction […]
A conservative minority in the Senate earlier today voted against allowing an infrastructure jobs bill to come to a floor vote, continuing a pattern of obstruction that has blocked every significant effort to get people working on the jobs that need to be done. The cloture vote—the procedural vote to allow final debate—on the Rebuild […]
Sometimes, even an institution that is “too big to fail” is not too big to be influenced by energized citizens on a quest for basic fairness. With a national “move your money” day coming up on November 5 and facing the prospect of losing tens of thousands of customers, Bank of America announced today that […]
This week the Senate will take up another proposal by the Obama administration to create jobs and move the country closer to economic recovery, this one a $60 billion plan for immediate spending on the nation’s roads, bridges, public transportation systems and other essentials to a vibrant, efficient economy. Of that, $50 billion is direct […]
The conservative campaign against worker rights is losing in Ohio, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Support for the repeal of SB 5, the law pushed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich that strips the bargaining rights of public workers, is up to 57 percent, according to the poll, with 32 percent supporting keeping […]
Former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain’s comment a couple of weeks ago that “I don’t believe racism in this country today holds anybody back in a big way” didn’t cause much of a national stir when he made it. Why would it, when a mixed-race African American is currently the president of the United States […]