by Terrance Heath | Jun 4, 2010 | Blog
Like tea party activi
by Bill Scher | Jun 4, 2010 | Blog
Monday begins the biggest progressive conference of the year: America's Future Now! What's in store for the thousands of progressives gathering in Washington, DC on Monday? At 11 AM, the conference kicks off with the "We Are The Change" opening plenary. Robert...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 4, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Evan as Washington ignores jobs bills and slashes help for long-term unemployed workers the economy may be starting to fall back. The economy added 431,000 jobs in May, but 411,000 of those were temporary census workers. Compare this to last month when businesses...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 4, 2010 | Blog
When progressive activists gather next week at the annual America’s Future Now conference, frustration and dismay will be widespread. Action on jobs is stalled among mixed signals from the White House. A Democratic Congress pours billions into the war in...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 4, 2010 | Blog
I was getting ready to attend next week's America's Future Now conference, whose theme is that progressives must lead, and thinking about the relationship problems progressives are having with Barack Obama and the Congressional leadership. All the relationship books...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 3, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Today ADP reported that private-sector jobs may have increased by 55,000 last month. (ADP is able to make this estimate because the company processes 1 of every 6 paychecks nationwide.) Meanwhile the Labor Department reported that initial claims for unemployment...
