by Derek Pugh | Jan 8, 2014 | Populist Majority
There’s something going awry with economic mobility in this country: It is now strikingly clear that not much has improved since President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty. This is evident in our post-recession economy and illustrated in a new study by the...
by Derek Pugh | Jan 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
This year the GOP will once again try to rebrand itself as compassionate, diverse, and in touch with the American public. Inevitably, they will once again fail. It won’t be for their lack of resources or effort, but their failed economic agenda that the majority of...
by Derek Pugh | Dec 12, 2013 | Budget Talks, Populist Majority
It’s true that the American public is tired of gridlock in Washington and would welcome signs that conservative obstruction is ending. But let’s be very clear here. The federal budget deal reached in Congress this week is not one that is supported by the majority of...
by Derek Pugh | Nov 19, 2013 | Budget Talks, The Sequester
Americans have endured five long years of hardship, stagnant wages and slow growth in the post-recession economy. Enough is enough. Join Campaign for America’s Future and eight other groups representing millions of Americans in a campaign to get rid of the sequester...
by Derek Pugh | Oct 16, 2013 | Minimum Wage
A new report from researchers at the University of California at Berkeley estimates that low-wage jobs in the fast-food sector are costing American taxpayers nearly $7 billion every year. The report—Fast Food, Poverty Wages: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Jobs in the...