by Robert Borosage | Jun 21, 2012 | Blog, Economy
This was delivered as the opening address to the Take Back the American Dream Summit in Washington, D.C., on June 18. On behalf of the Campaign for America’s Future, I welcome you to this year’s Take Back the American Dream Summit. You are activists and leaders from...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 21, 2012 | Blog
The Bush tax cuts expire at the end of the year. For more than 30 years the public has been told that low taxes promote economic growth and jobs, and now we have low taxes, low economic growth and a no job growth. Oh,, and really, really high deficits from the revenue...
by Radhika Raman | Jun 21, 2012 | Blog
There are people who become the face of a movement. They attend press conferences, head panels at conferences, and claim to speak for those who do not traditionally have a voice. Then there are the “behind-the-scenes” activists. They are the people in back rooms who...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 20, 2012 | Blog
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., explains in this interview with Richard Eskow that progressives can and must win the fight against the right-wing austerity policies wrapped in the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan. Schakowsky was a member of the deficit commission...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 20, 2012 | Blog
A straw poll taken at the Take Back the American Dream conference shows that the "enthusiasm gap" between progressives and President Obama is very real. Progressive leaders are nonetheless committed to Obama's reelection, the poll shows. The question that Obama must...
