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Make Work Pay For US -- CEO Pay vs The Rest Of Us
At the Take Back The American Dream conference session titled “Make Work Pay: Why Empowering Workers & Holding CEO’s Accountable is Vital to Economic Growth” Christine Owens of the Nationsal Employment Law Project described to the audience how wages are declining....
Progressive Breakfast - 10/5/2011
MORNING MESSAGE: What Next? OurFuture.org's Terrance Heath: "The second day of the Take Back the American Dream conference posed the question that was probably on the minds of many attendees: What should we do next? ... Participants in the Take Back the American Dream...
Rich Trumka At The Take Back The American Dream Conference Bring It On
'A Massive, Militant Movement' AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka addresses the Take Back the American Dream conference October 4. AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka called for a "mighty movement for jobs and a just economy" today at the Take Back The American Dream...
The Plan For The American Autumn
Take Back The American Dream News Conference Highlights Robert L. Borosage of the Campaign for America's Future and Van Jones of Rebuild the Dream outline plans for the "American Autumn." "Save your notes," Van Jones of Rebuild the Dream told reporters and bloggers at...
Rep Barney Franks Call For Defense Spending Cuts
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., continued his crusade for defense spending cuts at the Take Back the American Dream conference on Monday, calling on participants to pressure a congressional deficit-reduction "super committee" to focus all of its spending reductions on the...
The Occupaton is on the Move Find a Big Bank Protest Near You
U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone used to say "sometimes you have to pick a fight to win one." Now Occupy Wall Street has picked one, right in Jamie Dimon's backyard. But it won’t stay contained in Zuccotti Park. While Brookfield Properties called the park a "public...
Revive Manufacturing with Green Jobs
There is a green manufacturing revolution occurring in the world -- the rest of it, anyway -- and it is on track to create millions of jobs and trillions of dollars of new wealth. The Take Back The American Dream conference session titled "Stop Outsourcing the Dream:...
Talking About the American Dream Drew Westen and Celinda Lake
How do we talk about the American Dream? And is this a story Americans are ready to hear? According to communications experts Drew Westen and Celinda Lake, they're beyond ready to hear it; in fact, they've been waiting for years for progressives to speak to them with...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/4/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Something Can Be...
The Take Back Message Something Can Be Done
If there was one message that united the various speeches that launched the Take Back the American Dream conference in Washington, it was perhaps summed up by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who gave a post-lunch talk that was as potent as a can of Red Bull....
