Vice President Joe Biden's economic policy adviser, Jared Bernstein, is the featured speaker at a panel discussion that analyzes President Obama's response to the economic crisis. Other panelists were Robert Juttner, The American Prospect; Katrina vanden Hauvel, The Nation; and Emma Coleman Jordan, Georgetown Law School.
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blog.aflcio.org — The nation’s economy is in a tailspin, and one of the best ways to help turn it around is by passing the Employee Free Choice Act, several leaders at the America's Future Now! conference agree.
Jared Bernstein, economic policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, explains the Obama administration's economic policy decisions in this address at America's Future Now. He says the country needs to end the “shampoo economy—bubble, bust, repeat” and replace it with an economy that can sustain middle-class prosperity. more »
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America's Future co-director Robert Borosage opens the America's Future Now! conference with a challenge to the progressive movement to seize a chance for progressive change that the nation has not seen since at least the 1960s. more »
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Once upon a time, there was a Democratic president who promised to finally deliver health coverage for all Americans. It was 1993-94. Not only did health care reform fail to pass, that failure helped destroy the party’s majority in Congress and give rise to the extreme right-wing forces that remained more-or-less in power for 14 years. What’s different about the health care effort today? more »
Barack Obama is the best President we’ve had in a long, long time. The U.S. House is reasonably progressive, so far. The Senate is just so-so. We have the chance to fundamentally change federal priorities—to remake America. But it’s just a chance. Real reform won’t happen if progressive activists watch from the sidelines.
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