by Damon Silvers | Jan 27, 2014 | Progressive Vision, State of the Union
On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama is going to give his fifth State of the Union address. The president is likely to call for policies that will help working people, like an increase in the minimum wage and the extension of unemployment benefits to the long-term...
by Digby | Jan 27, 2014 | Economy, Making it in America, Minimum Wage, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
Responding to the depressing news that the administration has succumbed to elite pressure to "tone down" the rhetoric about wealth inequality, Damon Silvers, special counsel for the AFL-CIO, points out the uncomfortable truth: [T]he president faces a choice of...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 24, 2014 | Economy, Progressive Vision, State of the Union
The White House is signaling that one focus of President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday will be on our extreme and rising levels of income inequality. He'll feature basic pocketbook issues like raising the minimum wage, extending unemployment benefits,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 22, 2014 | Democracy, Progressive Vision
The organizer of a February 8 "moral march" on Raleigh, N.C. says he wants the largest mass demonstration in the South since the 1965 Selma to Montgomery, Ala., civil right march to be a loud rebuke against Tea-Party extremism in state legislatures around the country....
by Robert Borosage | Jan 21, 2014 | Progressive Vision, The New Populism
Is the “new populism” hailed by the mainstream press for real? The celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday reminds us how far we are from a vibrant people’s movement that can force change in Washington. But the difficulty that the White House has had in...
by Guest Writer | Jan 20, 2014 | Conservatism, Democracy, Progressive Vision
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Note: This is an excerpt of an acceptance speech given by Rev. Barber on November 6, 2013, when he received the Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award from the Campaign for America's Future. During this speech, he announced the...
