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Health Care for All: We Can't Afford Not to Act Now

More than 300 economists, business leaders and health care experts have signed a petition asking President Obama and Congress to act now to reform the nation's health care system—"to move boldly to cover all Americans with health insurance, to bring down health care costs and create improved quality and value within the health care system for families, businesses, and taxpayers." more »

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Start Making Sense

Check out "Making Sense" -- our guide to kitchen-table issues, including tools and resources you can use to make the case for progressive solutions to our nation's problems. more »

Check out the results of our past action campaigns...

Protect The Estate Tax

April 2009

When the 2010 budget was moving through Congress, conservatives, while refusing to support the budget out of a misguided sense of "fiscal responsibility", inserted an amendment into the budget that would cut the estate tax for the richest 5,854 multimillionaire families in America, while costing the government over $300 billion in lost revenue over the next 10 years. Just when it looked like this wildly irresponsible and regressive measure was going to find safe harbor in the budget, we responded by asking progressives to make their voices heard. more »

Fight For Obama's Budget

March - April 2009

After the success of passing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, President Obama's next big priority was to pass the fiscal 2010 federal budget resolutions. Once again, the conservative opposition mounted a fierce campaign to embrace the failures of Herbert Hoover and the Bush presidency, and even supported an alternative budget which called for more Bush-style tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy as a way to get us out of the recession those same policies helped create. Once again, we called on the progressive community to fight for real solutions from Congress. more »

Don't Let Lobbyists Delay Health Care Reform

March 2009

In April, Campaign for America's Future teamed up with MoveOn.org and Health Care for America NOW! with the goal to deliver 200,000 signatures to President Obama before his White House Health Care Summit to send a clear message: "Don't let the insurance lobbyists delay health care any longer. In this economic crisis, we can't afford NOT to pass quality, affordable health care for all this year." more »