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The Fight-Back Has Begun To Reclaim The American Dream
An email the Campaign for America's Future sent to its supporters a few weeks ago with the subject line "How Would You Take Back The American Dream?" kicked off a lively debate on a listserv of progressive activists. What do you mean when you say "the American dream"?...
AARP Lies to Defend Support for Cutting Social Security
AARP claims that their openness--read: support--for cuts to Social Security benefits is based on an understanding that tax increases alone will not close the program's modest funding gap. But that's just not true. If we made millionaires and billionaires contribute to...
AARP Tells Members They Wont Fight Social Security Benefit Cuts
The front page of today's Wall Street Journal features an article [Key Seniors Association Pivots on Benefit Cut] reporting that AARP "is dropping its longstanding opposition to cutting Social Security benefits." The piece is based on a conversation with AARP policy...
A Look Back Debt Ceiling Debate Then and Now
September marks the 26th anniversary of the introduction of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, the much- maligned deficit reduction process that budget historians and analysts generally consider to have failed miserably. What few people remember about that law is that it...
Stop The No JOBS Bill
Originally published at UnemployedWorkers.org. What do you call a bill that would let states seize all of the federal funds now allocated for unemployment insurance benefits to long-term unemployed job-seekers, and use those funds to bailout corporate taxes and state...
A Class War Their Class Has Been Fighting
This is a class war and I welcome it because they have more to lose than we do and we’re going to kick their asses! - Leo Gerard I attended Thursday's Netroots Nation panel, After Citizens United: Combating Corporate Power in Elections, The Supreme Court's decision in...
With AARP Supporting Social Security Benefit Cuts It’s Time to Burn My AARP Card
Don’t know about the rest of you 50+ folks, but it’s time for me to burn my AARP card. Have to start by saying that I like and respect many people who work for and serve as volunteers for AARP. An article by Laura Meckler in today’s Wall Street Journal reports that...
Don’t Worry Be Happy Be More Equal
If we grow apart as we grow economically, three psychological researchers show in a landmark new study, we will never grow more happy. Why haven’t Americans become happier over the past 50 years? Economists have trouble with that question. America's average...
By Not Challenging the Tea Party the White House Makes It Stronger
There's reason to believe that the White House held back on helping struggling homeowners because it was afraid of a Tea Party backlash. That was exactly the wrong response, politically as well as economically. Bolder and more effective action would have weakened the...
Embracing a Holistic And Progressive Approach To Ending Poverty
Don’t you just love it when a Senator nails the issue of poverty in American with a single sentence? That is just what Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) did last Thursday at the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s when he said: “The federal government is the only...
