by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 13, 2011 | Blog
Our sister site, TheMiddleClass.org, is taking a dim view of the budget deal struck Friday between the White House and Congress for fiscal year 2011. It concedes that it is not as disastrous for middle-class and lower-income people as H.R. 1, the budget the House...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 8, 2011 | Blog
"Watch what we do, not what we say" -- famous quote from a Nixon official, explaining that they make up the stuff they say to distract and divert people from understanding what they are doing. They say they are trying to cut deficits. They are doing something else...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 8, 2011 | Blog
TheMiddleClass.org, the website that evaluates legislation and congressional votes based on their impact on middle-class people, is being officially reintroduced today with a scathing indictment of the House Republican budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 drafted by...
by Bill Scher | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog
On April 4, "We Are One" community-based actions will be taking place all over the country, in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination while trying to organize sanitation workers in Memphis, and in solidarity with working people all over America facing...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 31, 2011 | Blog
Bloggers always wonder why Democrats couldn’t get anything done even when they had a solid majority in the House and 60 votes in the Senate, while Republicans get everything they want even when they are in the minority. Take the current budget negotiations, for...