by Sara Robinson | Apr 13, 2009 | Blog
Last week, in Part I of this short series, I talked about the three main scenarios that dominate progressive conversations about America's future: 1) Permanent Decline -- Due to Americans' native hyperindividualism, political apathy, and overweening willingness to...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 13, 2009 | Blog
We live in a sound-bite political culture. Politicos and policy makers hardly ever engage their opposite numbers in anything close to real debate. Instead, they inflict upon us carefully rehearsed talking points. And the rest of us usually don’t particularly...
by Eric Lotke | Apr 13, 2009 | Blog
Tax day is coming, and people are sad. But the problem isn’t taxes. The problem is fairness. Who pays taxes, and who gets the benefits. Today the Institute for America's Future publishes a new report that documents what we already know. The tax code is unfair, tilted...
by Roger Hickey | Apr 8, 2009 | Blog
Jacob Hacker’s 2006 book, The Great Risk Shift, helped politicians understand the economic pressures on the average family — including the rising costs and increasing loss of health insurance — or the threat. And in his Health Care for America plan for health reform,...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 8, 2009 | Blog
Democratic Senator Chris Dodd is in deep trouble. According to Stuart Rothenberg, Dodd is the most vulnerable senator up for re-election in 2010 — despite the fact that he's coasted to election easily in this deep blue state since his first Senate run in 1980.
by Alan Jenkins | Apr 7, 2009 | Blog
As Obama’s first 100 days draw to a close, new research shows that addressing today’s economic crisis will require reinvesting in a bedrock American principle: Opportunity. The State of Opportunity, released last week by The Opportunity Agenda, measures our nation’s...
