The Campaign for America’s Future ‘s Roger Hickey today joins a long list of leaders who are calling on President Obama to name Heidi Hartmann, the founder and president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, to be the next Secretary of Labor. “The next Secretary of Labor must be a visionary leader dedicated to [...]
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Now that he is a freshman senator, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy says he plans in the coming weeks to continue the push he started as a member of the House to advance a “Make It in America” jobs agenda. That agenda includes cracking down on China’s currency manipulation and violations of trade rules, tightening up [...]
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An effort to move the fight against poverty to the top of the national agenda begins today, led by the Half in 10 campaign and the Coalition for Human Needs. The major campaign goal is to persuade President Obama to talk about poverty and its solutions in his State of the Union address February 12. [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: Smart Talk On The Next Austerity Disaster OurFuture.org’s Robert Borosage and Richard Eskow: “Mass unemployment, declining wages, and faltering growth suggests the United States has already suffered too much austerity, too soon. And yet the political debate is focused on how much more to impose. … Now Congress has created an even more [...]
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The fight for filibuster reform does not stop with what MSNBC talk show host Ed Schultz on Thursday dubbed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s “fail-ibuster.” Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen told Schultz that “we have to continue that fight.” Cohen said there are real consequences to the decision by Reid to agree to [...]
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The annual “State of American Business” speech delivered today by Thomas J. Donohoe, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was largely predictable and not particularly noteworthy. But it did contain one of those moments reminiscent of those oil company commercials in which an oil industry official and someone typically representing an opposing side, such [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: Fix the Debt’s New Ploy Is Too Obscene For Laughter OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “Fix the Debt, a front group for corporations, billionaires, and defense contractors, wants people to call their representatives and demand that they avoid the “fiscal cliff.” The group’s latest email is so badly written that it cries out for laughter. [...]
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One of the most maddening features of the current fiscal cliff/fiscal swindle debate is that the chattering class rarely acknowledges the people who have already fallen off the cliff: 5 million Americans who have been unemployed for more than 27 weeks. The roughly 7 million people who aren’t even counted as unemployed because even though [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: 8 Deficit Reducers That Are More Ethical – And More Effective – Than the “Chained CPI” OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “The “chained CPI” is being offered as part of a “deficit reduction” deal, even though Social Security is forbidden from contributing to the deficit. Even if you accepted this unreasoned act, it remains morally [...]
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We have two words for House Speaker John Boehner’s proposal to resolve fiscal showdown. No deal. Campaign for America’s Future co-directors Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey both condemned Boehner’s latest offer, which would reportedly allow tax rates to go up on upper incomes in exchange for reducing the cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security and cuts in [...]
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