by Emily Foster | Oct 17, 2013 | Health
When House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said on Wednesday, “We all agree that Obamacare is an abomination,” the “we” he was referring to certainly was not the majority of Americans. In fact, an “intense new majority” of citizens support the implementation of...
by Emily Foster | Oct 3, 2013 | Chained CPI, Retirement Security
Activists joined with members of Congress to form a human chain at the Capitol on Thursday to rebuke the Republicans’ latest “entitlement reform” scheme, the “chained CPI.” Twenty members of Congress, including members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and other...
by Emily Foster | Oct 3, 2013 | Blog
The shutdown of the federal government affects all Americans in some way, but for one group the consequences are especially dire: low-income women, children and infants. They are in danger of being cut off from vital nutritional assistance programs because...
by Emily Foster | Sep 27, 2013 | Blog
In just four days, uninsured Americans will finally be able to enroll in the Affordable Care Act’s new health exchanges. But Republicans in the states are engaged in shady efforts to block the operation of these exchanges in ways that affect millions of citizens. They...
by Emily Foster | Sep 26, 2013 | Blog
Close to 100 cleaning and concessions contract workers from various federal facilities in Washington walked off their jobs and marched to the White House to protest what they called taxpayer-funded "poverty jobs". Workers from Union Station, the Smithsonian Museums,...
