by Leo Gerard | Oct 23, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
Every day President Obama reads and responds to letters from citizens. This illustrates his basic philosophy: people first. By contrast, for Mitt Romney, profit is the priority. He hasn't responded to any of the letters sent to him by workers at Sensata Technologies,...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 22, 2012 | Blog, Economy
The broad American middle class is in trouble. Working families have been struggling with stagnant wages and rising insecurity for over three decades. From 2002-2007, Americans witnessed the first “recovery” in which the typical household suffered declining income....
by Bill Scher | Oct 22, 2012 | Blog
Today, the Campaign for America's Future unveiled TheMiddleClass.org Voter Guide which allows you to see how often your representatives in Congress vote for the middle class. A whopping 181 scored a big fat zero. But we didn't want this data to just collect dust on...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 22, 2012 | Blog
Don't be surprised if Republican Rep. Paul Ryan works hard at tonight's vice presidential debate to counter Vice President Joe Biden's Scranton, Pa. working-class roots with his own small-town roots in Janesville, Wis. But while both will invoke their middle-class...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 22, 2012 | Blog
TheMiddleClass.org Voter Guide is getting attention this week for its rating 200 members of Congress "zero" on a set of votes it deems reflective of the members' stands on middle-class concerns. It turns out it was not alone in taking a dim view of the performance of...
by Bill Scher | Oct 22, 2012 | Blog
Two representatives from New Hampshire are among the members of Congress targeted by a Campaign for Americas Future ad campaign aimed at vulnerable conservative congresspeople who rate the worst on TheMiddleClass.org Voter Guide. (You can contribute to the campaign by...
