The 2011 State of the Union address offers President Obama an opportunity to set a progressive economic policy course and to draw the contrast between the vision that he has offered the na more »
The debate about America's future "begins and ends concretely with the question of jobs," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington outlining a working families' vision for the nation.
Trumka urged President Obama to make next week's State of the Union address a "call to action, a call to invest in our future, to create jobs, to be the country we can and must be."
A Democracy Corps/Campaign for America's Future survey examines the top economic priorities of American voters, the extent to which they are rejecting the economic priorities of conservatives and offers insight into what Democrats will have to do in order to regain the support of the public. Our commentary on the issues related to the poll is on this page. more »
Understand the issues and arguments progressive leaders are making about the tax-cut deal that President Obama cut with congressional Republicans and use them to push for policies that will lead to a real economic recovery for working-class Americans. more »
Thanks to legislation from Sen. Bernie Sanders, we finally got the Fed to open up its books on the Wall St. bailout. What did OurFuture.org's Zach Carter find? "Frightening revelations about U.S. economic policy and those who implement it."
Let's face it. Nothing about the economic crisis is funny. Nothing about America's 9% unemployment rate, 14.8 million unemployed, or 6.2 million long-term employed is funny. And there's nothing mildly amusing about the 2 million Americans whose unemployment benefits began running out after the GOP blocked another extension of unemployment benefits.
So why a comic strip?
Because the story of how the economic crisis is devastating millions of Americans, while Washington does little about it, should be told and retold in as many ways as possible, to reach as many people as possible. For that purpose, we've created a comic strip titled "99 and Counting..."
We're working with some of the best state-level bloggers from around the country to help us tell the truth about key economic and social policy issues, and to draw the contrast between the rhetoric of the right and the progressive alternative. You can find the latest work from these bloggers on this page. more »
A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time: the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.
Winner-Take-All Politics — part revelatory history, part political analysis, part intellectual journey- shows how a political system that traditionally has been responsive to the interests of the middle class has been hijacked by the super rich. In doing so, it not only changes how we think about American politics, but also points the way to rebuilding a democracy that serves the interests of the many rather than just those of the wealthy few.
The 2011 State of the Union address offers President Obama an opportunity to set a progressive economic policy course and to draw the contrast between the vision that he has offered the na 
