Some of the nation's largest financial institutions are operating a foreclosure fraud machine of fabricated documents, forged signatures and lies to judges that is causing thousands of people to unjustly lose their homes. Zach Carter has been exposing the inner workings of this machine and making the case for action.
A full 90 members of Congress who voted to bailout Wall Street in 2008 failed to support financial reform reining in the banks that drove our economy off a cliff. But when you examine campaign contribution data, it's really no surprise that these particular lawmakers voted to mortgage our economic future to Big Finance: This election cycle, they've raked in over $48.8 million from the financial establishment. Over the course of their Congressional careers, the figure swells to a massive $176.9 million.
Three years into the financial crisis that led to waves of foreclosures and the unemployment crisis, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission continues to investigate its causes. It's clear that Wall Street was "Ground Zero," and warnings that could have prevented the crisis and its consequences were ignored.
Blogger Zach Carter has followed the hearings with up-to-the-minute liveblogs, and post-hearing analysis.
In this time of economic crisis, it is easy for fear-mongers to pit groups against each other and to find convenient scapegoats for the problems that plague us. ONE NATION seeks to transcend our superficial differences and bring us together in a common quest for equal opportunity and justice for all.
We asked 1,000 voters how they wanted elected officials to deal with the federal budget deficit and the long-term solvency of Social Security and Medicare. What we found was widespread opposition to conservative proposals to cut Social Security and Medicare, and substantial support for progressive policies that would help save jobs in the short run and rebuild the economy in the long run. See the "Deficits and Economic Recovery" report, which includes polling data, an audio slideshow narrated by pollster Stan Greenberg, and a commentary by Robert Borosage. more »
Members of Congress in their congressional districts during the summer of 2010 need to be reminded that their top priority must be policies that lead to job creation—not bowing to deficit fear-mongering or returning to the failed Bush-era policies of tax cuts for the rich and economic stagnation for everyone else. more »
Campaign for America's Future staff members, fellows and associates appear at several key panels during Netroots Nation, July 22-24 in Las Vegas. This page aggregates blog posts about these panels and other Netroots Nation happenings.
There can be no un-ringing of the bailout bell. Goldman absolutely must be aggressively regulated as a commercial bank to make sure that its subsidies are not destructive. That's the minimum reform. Still better would be to cut off the subsidies, claw-back the bonuses earned over the past two years, and break the bank up into smaller institutions that the Fed would not feel compelled to step in and save. But to pretend the bailout never happened and promise not to do it again is simply not credible. more »
Congressional Republicans have released their "Pledge to America," but it is a threat to Americans struggling in today's economy. 
President Obama's Labor Day proposal to accelerate some infrastructure spending is a good start. But we can do better if we fight for it. 
We asked 1,000 voters how they wanted elected officials to deal with the federal budget deficit and the long-term solvency of Social Security and Medicare. What we found was widespread opposition to conservative proposals to cut Social Security and Medicare, and substantial support for progressive policies that would help save jobs in the short run and rebuild the economy in the long run. See the 
Campaign for America's Future staff members, fellows and associates appear at several key panels during Netroots Nation, July 22-24 in Las Vegas. This page aggregates blog posts about these panels and other Netroots Nation happenings.
