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State of the Union 2013

Isaiah J. Poole — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:40:45 -0500

Smart Talk on China Trade

Isaiah J. Poole — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:19:35 -0400

Sensata: Romney, China & American Jobs

Terrance Heath — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:08:12 -0400

Sensata: Romney, China & American Jobs

Terrance Heath — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:05:39 -0400

Sensata is a company that makes sophsticated sensors that are a key technology for the automobile industry. Sensata is closing their Freeport, IL factory and moving all the equipment and jobs to China. The workers have to train their Chinese replacements or lose severance and unemployment benefits. The moving of equipment and closing of the plant is scheduled for the end of this year.

Bain Capital — the company that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney started — owns 51% of Sensata. Romney no longer runs the company, but retains significant investments, including chunks of the Bain funds that own Sensata.

Sensata workers have repeatedly asked Mitt Romney to talk with them, and help them save their jobs. So far, Romney has ignored them.

Smart Talk

Isaiah J. Poole — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:55:04 -0400

Smart Talk is a series of briefs focused on how to talk about the big economic challenges facing the American people.

In the wake of the worst economic calamity since the Great Depression, we are stuck in an economy which is not working for working people. Americans must decide if they want to go back to the failed conservative policies that drove us into this mess or continue on the path of reform. That is a crucial choice – but the fundamental reforms vital to creating an economy of shared prosperity are still largely missing in action. It will require activists and citizen movements to challenge the limits of the current debate.

We aim to help by providing tested and effective ways to talk about these broader reforms in the key economic debates you and the constituencies you work with face. This is an ambitious project. We’ll be learning as we go, and we need your feedback both on whether this is useful and how we can sharpen the arguments.

Progressive Message at the Democratic Convention

Isaiah J. Poole — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:26:01 -0400

A New Strategy For Prosperity

Terrance Heath — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:30:51 -0400

We Americans face a stark choice for our economy in the upcoming election, an election that will unfold in the midst of a historically slow recovery from a devastating economic recession.

One strategy would have us double down on the policies that pushed us into recession and have slowed our recovery. The other choice – the choice we endorse – is a strategy that makes investments in our future as a country, supports working Americans and encourages broadly shared growth.

It is a choice, in other words, between austerity economics and prosperity economics.

LEARN MORE Read the Report "Prosperity Economics: Building an Economy for All," by Jacob Hacker and Nate Lowenthell.

OurFuture.org at Netroots Nation 2012

Isaiah J. Poole — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 09:47:04 -0400

Three members of our online team attended Netroots Nation in Providence, R.I. Follow their posts on this page.

The State of the Union 2012

Isaiah J. Poole — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:44:29 -0500

President Obama lays out his policy priorities for the year in his State of the Union address. How do they match up to the progressive vision of restoring the American dream for every person struggling to get on to and climb the economic ladder? Read what we and other progressive experts were hoping to see in the speech, and how it actually measured up.

National Labor Relations Board and the Boeing Ruling

Isaiah J. Poole — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:06:45 -0400