by Leo Gerard | Feb 25, 2011 | Blog
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » It’s illegal in America now to buy or sell a human being, but a recorded telephone conversation between a Republican governor and a guy he...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
In a post about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's bid to strip public employee unions of collective bargaining — the most important and effective tool for protecting workers — Van Jones wrote: If a foreign power conspired to inflict this much damage on America's first...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 3, 2011 | Blog
Conservatives have a legislative agenda for 2011 that will hurt your ability to get or keep a job, your neighborhood's ability to recover from the recession and this country's ability to regain its footing in the global economy. To keep conservatives from enacting...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 10, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
It has been said before — recently, even — but it bears saying again and again, as any truth does. Conservatives have finally, and completely, abandoned compassion. Progressives spent much of the previous decade declaring the "compassionate...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 8, 2010 | Blog
Until this week here is what we heard over and over (and over and over and over and over): Because of budget deficits (caused by tax cuts for the rich and huge increases in military spending) we have to cut spending, not invest in the American People, put off...
