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This video by OWL: The Voice of Midlife and Older Women raises the alarm about the creation of a fast-track commission that would allow the White House and Congress to cut Social Security and other benefits without going through the normal democratic process of debate and compromise. more »

Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, takes on the GOP-backed deficit commission in an interview on The Real News Network. Hickey says the commission, a concept being pushed by a foundation backed by Wall Street mogul Peter G. more »

Co-directors Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey look back at the progressive movement in 2009 and discuss what it will take to win the political challenges of 2010. They argue that the past year has shown the necessity of an independent progressive movement to hold President Obama to his promises and to hold Congress accountable to the people. more »

Our bloggers Terrance Heath and Bill Scher dive into the question that is now dominating progressive political debate: Has the health care reform bill been so seriously compromised—first with the dilution and ultimate elimination of the public option and now with the capitulation to the demands of two senators to not even allow persons 55 and over to buy in to the Medicare program—that it's no more »

Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers union, analyzes the White House summit on jobs December 3, where he was one of the labor participants. He says in this interview that he was buoyed by the good ideas that were presented at the summit, and praises Obama for using the summit to put a focus on creating jobs. more »

Robert Borosage of the Institute for America's Future addresses the key questions members of the Senate must ask Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke when he appears before the Senate Banking Committee beginning December 3. more »

Damon Silvers, the policy director at the AFL-CIO, faced off against Edward Yingling, the CEO of the American Bankers Association, on the issue of financial reform at The Aspen Institute. In this segment of the 90-minute debate Silvers gets to the core of how Wall Street went awry and why the financial reform fight is important. more »

Hundreds of taxpayers converged in front of the Washington headquarters of Goldman Sachs with a basic demand for its CEO: Before you issue multibillion-dollar bonuses to your executives, help clean up the mess you and other Wall Street titans made on Main Street. more »

Economist Robert Johnson says progressive activists are going to have to fight more aggressively against the forces on Capitol Hill and the White House who are working on behalf of the financial services industry to block financial reform, given the kinds of deals now being cut by the Obama White House and some Democrats in Congress. more »

Elected officials and leaders from labor, business and academia are at our Washington conference outlining the industrial and trade policies we need to ensure a broad prosperity based on good American jobs. Check out these highlights from the conference.