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Reacting to Reports of a Schumer Proposal, Campaign for America’s Future Warns Democrats: Do Not Cut Social Security

01/24/2013

Washington, D.C. – In response to a report in The Hill that Sen. more »

Progressives Say Trustees’ Report Shows More Health Reform Needed to Solve Rising Medicare Costs, Not Cuts to Benefits

April 24, 2012

Washington, DC -- The report released yesterday by the Trustees of the Social Security Administration has already elicited some of the usual nonsense from millionaires, billionaires and conservatives who are pushing for a so-called Grand Bargain that would drastically more »

Progressive Groups Demand that Super Committee Democrats Preserve Social Security and Medicare

November 7, 2011

Campaign for America’s Future Blasts Super Committee's Plans to Cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security

October 28, 2011

Washington, DC -- The Campaign for America’s Future today released the following statement by its co-director, Roger Hickey: more »

New Report Shows State Budget Cuts are Devastating Public Schools

October 13, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC —New austerity budgets, passed by state legislatures, are having a huge negative effect on direct services to children, youth, and families, according to a new report by Campaign for America’s Future. more »

New Video Inspired By Florida's Governor Cutting Unemployment Benefits

June 13, 2011

In Florida, Gov. Rick Scott is about to sign a bill into law to cut unemployment insurance. (http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2011/7005) This action, which will hurt the people who are hurting most, inspired the making of this video. more »

TV Spots Remind Rep. Cantor’s Constituents about His Social Security “Cannot Exist” Remarks

April 8, 2011

The Campaign for America's Future is releasing a new ad to be aired starting April 8, in Rep. Eric Cantor's congressional district in Virginia, highlighting Cantor’s comments that Social Security "cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be."

New Poll Reveals That Voters Want One Thing: It’s Jobs

January 18, 2011

Stan Greenberg, co-founder of Democracy Corps, and Campaign for America's Future's Co-Director Robert Borosage discuss the results of a new national survey of 2012 presidential-year voters on economic policy, their responses to the White House deficit commission's recommendations, Social Security and priorities for the new Congress.

Citizens’ Deficit Commission Report Warns Austerity Will Block Recovery

December 1, 2010

Report Says Direction Chosen By The White House Commission Is The Wrong One For The Economy; Report Calls for More Job Creation and Long-Term Investment

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CITIZENS’ COMMISION ON JOBS AND DEFICITS CHALLENGES SIMPSON-BOWLES DEFICIT COMMISSION

November 29, 2010

Members of “Citizens’ Commission on Jobs, Deficits and America’s Economic Future” Demand Equal Media Coverage for Middle Class Economic Agenda, Growth Strategy for Deficits


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