by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today, the Campaign for America's Future is joining 100 other organizations in delivering a message to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell: Enough is enough. End the obstruction. Stop the constant abuse of the filibuster....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
A critique of the impact on African Americans of using the chained CPI to limit the cost-of-living adjustment on Social Security benefits and my criticism of President Obama's jobs proposals were among the highlights of a one-hour discussion Sunday led by Maya...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 18, 2013 | Minimum Wage
It is time – in fact, it is past time – to demand that Congress act to increase the minimum wage. This week, the effort to get Congress to act is accelerating. As of late Wednesday, more than 15,000 people have signed a SignOn.org petition posted by the Campaign for...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
In our post-mortem of the 2012 elections, the Campaign for America's Future was one of the few organizations willing to say that "class war" was not only the common theme of many of the Democratic Party's electoral successes but it is a strategy that the party should...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 9, 2013 | Blog
When President Obama formally unveils his fiscal 2014 budget on Wednesday, a lot of the progressive movement focus will be on his plan to cut Social Security benefits through a reduced cost-of-living adjustment called the "chained CPI." But there will be another...
