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Campaign for College Affordability coordinator Robert M. Brandon said today that President Obama’s public investment in the nation's community colleges is especially important for jobless workers during periods of economic uncertainty. President Obama proposed a $12 billion effort to help institutions reach, teach and train more people for "the jobs of the future" today at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan.

As the health reform debate heats up in Congress, the Institute for America’s Future today released the names of prominent health care experts and economists available for analysis and interviews. All the experts favor a public health insurance option to compete with private plans, but they are good sources on all developing issues related to the health care debate.

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich today urged Senate Finance Committee Democrats to condemn false “bipartisanship” standing in the way of President Obama’s overhaul to the nation’s health care system. Reich said Democrats must support a public health insurance option because it’s the best way to control costs, citing evidence in a new report released today by the Health Care for America Now coalition.

Americans for Financial Reform, a national coalition of more than 200 state and local organizations, including the Campaign for America's Future, dedicated to reforming the financial system and rebuilding our economy., released the following statement today in response to President Obama's proposals for financial industry reform. more »

Economist Jonathan Gruber and health care experts Jacob Hacker and Ken Jacobs joined Institute for America’s Future co-director Roger Hickey and researcher Phillip Cryan on a conference call today to discuss key provisions of President Obama’s plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system.

WASHINGTON – Progressives gathered at this week’s “America’s Future Now” conference found a lot to like in President Obama’s first 100 days, but they are very focused on health care reform as their highest priority, according to a straw poll of participants conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research for the Campaign for America’s Future and Democracy Corps. more »

Progressive groups are poised to spend more than $82 million to support President Obama's goal of achieving quality, affordable health care for all this year, according to leaders gathered today at the “America’s Future Now” conference in Washington.

The Campaign for America’s Future today cheered the introduction of the “National Infrastructure Development Bank Act of 2009,” by Reps. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn. This legislation would create a development bank to finance infrastructure projects in the realm of transportation, the environment, energy and telecommunications.

The Campaign for America’s Future today applauded the Senate for overwhelmingly passing H.R. 627, the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights Act of 2009, by a vote of 90-5.

WASHINGTON – In response to today’s release of the annual Social Security & Medicare Trustees report, Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future, urged Congress not to bend to conservative hysteria, but to address the real root of the problem – our broken health care system and its out-of-control costs.