"Words that make actions speak louder."
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
Updated 8:47 a.m. — Today’s unemployment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics will be closely watched for its political impact on the presidential race. But it is not the numbers that will be most consequential.
It looks as if Congress got our message on the need to pass, without right-wing poison pills, a two-year transportation jobs bill.
A Senate-House conference committee is scheduled to meet today to hammer out differences between the two chambers on what is likely to be the most substantive jobs bill the Congress could pass this year: a surface transportation reauthorization bill.
There are reports that Congress is at last about to reach a deal on a transportation bill, exactly 1,001 days after the expiration of the last transportation reauthorization bill that Congress passed. What’s still unclear is what kind of deal this will be.
As progressive leaders from around the country prepare for next week’s Take Back the American Dream conference, we’re not waiting to start hitting Congress with our key demand: Bury austerity, put jobs first and resurrect the middle class.
Today’s unemployment report, reflecting an anemic increase of only 69,000 new jobs in May and an unemployment rate up to 8.2 percent, is the best evidence yet that conservative obstruction measures that would put Americans back to work is crippling the economy.
Multibillonaire Peter G. Peterson’s Fiscal Summit may have started with conciliatory nods toward bipartisanship, but it did not climax that way. And that had to have been by design.
As the political establishment prepares to do battle Friday over what is likely to be another mediocre jobs report, talk-show host Tavis Smiley this afternoon called for a living-wage jobs program as part of an all-out offensive against poverty in America.