"Words that make actions speak louder."
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 […]
As the Senate prepares for a vote on a $35 billion bill to support hiring of teachers and first responders around the country, conservative are pillorying Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for a bit of inartful truth-telling. After all, it is so much easier for Senate Republicans to slam the message and the messenger than […]
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Co-director Roger Hickey appeared on the Dylan Ratigan Show Tuesday to discuss the influence of big money in politics and whether progressives could find common cause with tea party activists on giving power in the democracy back to ordinary people. Hickey said common […]
This will be a disappointment for the political reporters always looking to gawk at “hot Dem-on-Dem” action or what Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., at the Take Back the American Dream conference this week called a “progressive food fight,” but the straw poll taken at that conference shows there’s not a lot of daylight between progressive […]
On the morning after President Obama sent his "American Jobs Act" legislation to Capitol Hill, the Progressive Caucus is responding with its "Rebuild The American Dream Framework," six pillars that progressive leaders in Congress are using to construct a set of bold jobs proposals. While the administration is using its national network to rally support […]
Today 68 major progressive organizations have sent a letter to President Obama urging him to present a "big, bold" jobs program to the nation in his anticipated post-Labor Day address. Some of the organizations signing the letter, while praising the President for his return to an emphasis on jobs, are concerned that Obama’s plan may […]
Zero. That was the number of net jobs produced by the economy in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Zero is the number that looms above President Obama as he delivers his address Thursday to a joint session of Congress. The imperative for the president is now more clear than ever. He must […]
President Obama’s speech before a joint session of Congress Thursday will be measured in a number of ways, but for the millions of unemployed and underemployed people in America only one measurement counts: the specific proposals Obama places before the country to get them back to work—not later, but now. Leading progressive organizations have joined […]
One of the House Progressive Caucus co-chairs, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., is expected to introduce a bill later today that will require the 12-member congressional deficit-reduction “super-committee” to vote on a plan to create 3 million jobs—before acting on spending cuts. The legislation is called “The Emergency Jobs Now Act,” and it joins other efforts […]