by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 19, 2011 | Blog
Amid fierce fiscal austerity, a borough in London is doing battle to level up the poor and level down the rich. Imagine if a borough in New York tried something as ambitious. In the United States and Britain, the developed world’s two most unequal major nations, you...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 18, 2011 | Blog
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"?...
by Daniel Marans | Jun 17, 2011 | Blog
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...
by Roger Hickey | Jun 17, 2011 | Blog
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...
by | Jun 17, 2011 | Blog, Economy
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...
