by Tim Wilkins | May 14, 2019 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE Sarah Anderson The Reality Behind the ‘Surging’ U.S. Economy Recent economic reports have President Donald Trump crowing, and the big headline numbers do sound encouraging. And yet most of the gains from our growing economy are still going to those who...
by Sarah Anderson | May 14, 2019 | #PeoplesWave, Blog, Economy, Featured
Recent economic reports have President Donald Trump crowing. The big headline numbers do sound encouraging. The unemployment rate is down to 3.6%, the lowest since 1969. Average earnings are finally outpacing inflation, the stock market has been hitting record highs,...
by Tim Wilkins | May 13, 2019 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard American Workers Are Not Happy Americans are not happy. And for good reason. They continue to suffer financial stress caused by decades of flat income. And every time they make the slightest peep of complaint about a system rigged against...
by Leo Gerard | May 13, 2019 | Blog, Featured
Americans are not happy. And for good reason. They continue to suffer financial stress caused by decades of flat income. And every time they make the slightest peep of complaint about a system rigged against them, the rich and powerful tell them to shut up because it...
by Tim Wilkins | May 10, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Robert Kraig The Fight For Health Care In Wisconsin Has Just Begun Wisconsin’s Republican lawmakers proudly turned their backs on the people of the Badger State when they voted against expanding health coverage to 82,000 people yesterday. But at...
by Robert Kraig | May 10, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Health
Wisconsin’s Republican lawmakers proudly turned their backs on the people of the Badger State when they voted against expanding health coverage to 82,000 people yesterday. But at Citizen Action of Wisconsin, we’re not turning back. We’ll keep fighting until every...
by Tim Wilkins | May 9, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Maggie Ellinger-Locke ALEC Wants To Make Protest Illegal In Illinois Dangerous anti-protest legislation is working its way through state assemblies all across the U.S., chipping away at the right to protest and undermining social justice movements....
by Maggie Ellinger-Locke | May 9, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Protest
Dangerous anti-protest legislation is working its way through state assemblies all across the U.S., chipping away at the right to protest and undermining social justice movements. State legislators have introduced nearly 100 bills curbing your right to protest since...
by Tim Wilkins | May 8, 2019 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE Lenny Sanchez Why I’m Striking Against Uber Today, I’m doing what Uber drivers all around the world are doing: I’m going on strike. What started on a Chicago streetcorner has blossomed into an international movement: we’re now joined by thousands of...
by Lenny Sanchez | May 8, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work, Jobs and Growth, Organizing, Protest
Today, I’m doing what Uber drivers all around the world are doing: I’m going on strike. I’m far from alone. What started on a Chicago streetcorner last September has blossomed into an international movement: we’re now joined by thousands of rideshare drivers - in New...
by Tim Wilkins | May 7, 2019 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE Vernell Robinson Making a #HomesGuarantee a Reality For All My name is Vernell Robinson, and I live on front lines of our nation’s housing crisis. My voice, and other voices of those directly affected by this crisis, belong at the table with...
by Vernell Robinson | May 7, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Housing, Protest
My name is Vernell Robinson, and I live on front lines of our nation’s housing crisis. My voice, and other voices of those directly affected by this crisis, belong at the table with decision-makers - because we are the ones who know what needs to change, now. That’s...
by Tim Wilkins | May 6, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jessicah Pierre A Revolutionary Idea To Close The Racial Wealth Divide The gap between America’s ultra-wealthy and the rest of us is growing dramatically as wealth continues to concentrate at the top at the expense of the rest of us. One major symptom...
by Jessicah Pierre | May 6, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Financial Reform, Inequality
The gap between America’s ultra-wealthy and the rest of us is growing dramatically as wealth continues to concentrate at the top at the expense of the rest of us. One major symptom of this economic rift is the racial wealth divide, which is greater today than it was...
by Tim Wilkins | May 3, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati A Plea from America’s Rich: Let’s Change the Subject! America’s elites have for decades now enjoyed — and exploited — a mainstream political consensus. America is doing just fine, this consensus has held, but just not for everybody. We...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 3, 2019 | Blog, Featured
America’s elites have for decades now enjoyed — and exploited — a mainstream political consensus. America is doing just fine, this consensus has held, but just not for everybody. We have some poor, unfortunate souls in our midst, the consensus continues, and decency...
by Connie Huynh | May 2, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Health
We just took a huge step towards Medicare For All: the House Ways and Means Committee has announced they will hold, for the first time, hearings on the Medicare For All Act Of 2019, introduced this spring by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT). Ways...
by People's Action | May 1, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard Victims of Workplace Safety Abandoned by OSHA Last year, on Halloween just before midnight, Frank Leasure - Army veteran, husband, father and grandfather -left work at American Standard in Salem, Ohio. To get to his car in the employee lot,...
by Leo Gerard | May 1, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work, Jobs and Growth
Last year, on Halloween just before midnight, Frank Leasure left work at American Standard in Salem, Ohio. To get to his car in the employee lot, he had to walk across two sets of Norfolk Southern railroad tracks. He waited in frigid, driving rain for a westbound...
by Adrienne Evans | Apr 30, 2019 | Blog, Featured
Donald Trump has proven himself unfit for the presidency at nearly every twist and turn. The lengths he will go to circumvent the constitution, violate the rule of law, and sink to unthinkable depths of immorality are shamelessly on display. These efforts are only...
by People's Action | Apr 26, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tim Wilkins The #PeoplesWave Is Coming To D.C. It’s time. It’s your time. It’s OUR time. It’s time for the #PeoplesWave. Are you with us? This weekend, over a thousand People’s Action members from all across the country will gather in Washington, D.C....
by Tim Wilkins | Apr 26, 2019 | Blog, Featured
It’s time. It’s your time. It’s OUR time. It’s time for the #PeoplesWave. Are you with us? This weekend, nearly a thousand People’s Action members from all across the country will gather in Washington, D.C. to compare notes, celebrate our victories, and prepare...
by People's Action | Apr 25, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE George Goehl, Felicia Wong Pfizer Shareholder Meeting Offers Inside Look At Big Pharma Pfizer’s board of directors will gather in New Jersey on Thursday for the company’s annual shareholders meeting. They will celebrate the enormous success Pfizer had...
by People's Action | Apr 24, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard How Big Corporations Take Your Tax Dollars Big corporations claim to hate socialism if it means Medicare for All, but they sure as hell love socialism when it’s welfare for them. Sixty profitable corporations paid no federal taxes in 2018,...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 24, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Inequality, Tax Reform
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bernie Sanders, castigator of the one percent, is a millionaire now. So are Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren. Big whoop. There’s a crucial difference between these candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination and the super wealthy –...
by People's Action | Apr 23, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sen. Warren Just Stepped Up On Free College For All Kat Legier Senator Elizabeth Warren just stepped up to support Free College For All. And it’s not just a pose. How do I know? Because I got to ask her myself – twice. Just after Senator Warren...
by Kat Legier | Apr 23, 2019 | Blog, Education, Election, Featured
Senator Elizabeth Warren just stepped up to support Free College For All. And it’s not just a pose. How do I know? Because I got to ask her myself – twice. I’m a freshman at the University of New Hampshire, studying sociology and studio art. Moving to the Granite...
by People's Action | Apr 22, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Iowa Farmers Need A Green New Deal Nick Schutt I’m a third-generation farmer from Hardin County, Iowa, and here’s why I support the Green New Deal. Factory farms and corporate agribusiness are bad for our planet, bad for our climate, bad for farmers,...
by Nick Schutt | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Featured
My name is Nick Schutt. I’m a third-generation farmer from Hardin County, Iowa, and here’s why I support the Green New Deal. Factory farms and corporate agribusiness are bad for our planet, bad for our climate, bad for farmers, bad for rural communities, bad for all...
by People's Action | Apr 19, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Why America Needs a Public Credit Registry For many Americans, the words “bad credit” are like the sound of a closing door. That’s because there’s a deeply harmful, but seldom-spoken, truth about credit reporting: It ruins lives, and crushes hopes....
by Amy Traub | Apr 19, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Inequality
For many Americans, the words “bad credit” are like the sound of a closing door. That’s because there’s a deeply harmful, but seldom-spoken, truth about credit reporting: It ruins lives, and crushes hopes. When private companies gather data on our borrowing history...
by James Mumm | Apr 18, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Organizing, Philanthropy
Part feminist rallying cry, part anti-consumerist manifesto, the title of English punk band X-Ray Spex’s 1977 debut single, O Bondage Up Yours, describes how I now feel after reading three compelling recent books on philanthropy. As a longtime participant in...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 17, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Inequality
Serious societal change typically only takes place when the pressure for change hits “critical mass.” At one level, we’ve had critical mass for years now on seriously taxing America’s rich. Polls regularly show broad public support for having our wealthiest pay quite...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 16, 2019 | Blog, Education, Future of Work
“Steelworker” generally evokes images of hulking mill buildings, steel-toed boots, and molten metal – not ivory towers, doctoral dissertations, and university research. But 2,000 graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh are voting this week on whether to...
by Miles Mogulescu | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Politics
Hillary Clinton, with her focus group-tested moderation, may have failed to break the glass ceiling. But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with her fearlessness, outspokenness, and mastery of social media has broken another piece of metaphorical glass – The Overton Window...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog, Education, Future of Work, Protest
Alison McIntosh learned early that life is a little easier with help from friends. Her first professional job reinforced that notion. And now, as a University of Pittsburgh graduate student, she is asking her co-workers to embrace collectivism. McIntosh, who is...
by People's Action | Apr 12, 2019 | Breakfast
Conservatives Lock Down WI Supreme Court WI conservatives cement outsize power in a state that went blue just last year. Vox: "Wisconsin Democrats’ winning streak abruptly ended this week with a state Supreme Court election that likely means mean Republicans will have...
by Naomi Runder | Apr 12, 2019 | Blog, Education, Election, Featured, I Speak, Protest
My name is Naomi Runder. I’m an organizer with Iowa Student Action and a student at Grinnell College. I never expected to be a student in Iowa. For a while, I wasn’t even sure whether I could be a student anywhere. As I was preparing to graduate high school in...
by People's Action | Apr 11, 2019 | Breakfast
Suspect In LA Black Church Arson Arrested A man arrested in connection with the Louisiana black church fires is a law enforcement official's son. CNN: "A man arrested in connection with fires at three historically black Louisiana churches is a law enforcement...
by Laura Kaplan-Weisman | Apr 11, 2019 | Blog, Health, I Speak
My name is Dr. Laura Kaplan-Weisman, and I am a family physician from Maryland. I provide primary care to people of all ages and all walks of life, and I feel strongly that what our country needs now is universal health care. That’s why I traveled to Washington to...
