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...
by Sara Robinson | Apr 7, 2009 | Blog
Terrance's last post heroically set out and engaged the two dominant scenarios about the American future that progressives seem to be wrestling with right now. These two scenarios might be described as: 1) Permanent Decline -- Due to Americans' native...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 6, 2009 | Blog
Despite the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, top corporate executives are still taking home staggeringly more than their counterparts a generation ago. Millions of Americans last year lost their jobs, their homes, and their retirement security....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 6, 2009 | Blog
The debate over how well President Obama did at the G-20 summit last week—and certainly the debate over who touched who first in the encounter between First Lady Michelle Obama and Britain's Queen Elizabeth—doesn't address the most important question of all: What did...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 3, 2009 | Blog
"Budgets are moral documents" ~ Rev. Jim Wallis "What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility… This is the price and promise of citizenship." ~Barack Obama, January 20, 2009 There are moments when the stark contrast of values between progressives and...
by Tula Connell | Apr 3, 2009 | Blog
It was tragic enough that her 11-year-old son became a quadriplegic after gunshots hit him while he was playing outside. But now Alberta, a single mother, worries every day because she can't leave her job to take care of her son. Without her job, she has no way to...
