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Save Social Security - 10 Questions for the Deficit Commission

By Dave Johnson
December 22, 2009

It is possible that there is going to be a “deficit commission” to look for ways to reduce our country’s budget deficits. I have some questions for them to ask to help get things started in the right direction: more »

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U.S. Military Spending Overwhelms the Rest of the World

By Bernie Horn
June 9, 2009

Yesterday, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) issued its annual report on global military spending. Worldwide, governments spent a record $1.46 trillion on their armed forces in 2008. The United States accounted for 42 percent of the global arms spending. When will we realize that’s simply too much?

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Fight For Obama's Budget

March - April 2009

After the success of passing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, President Obama's next big priority was to pass the fiscal 2010 federal budget resolutions. Once again, the conservative opposition mounted a fierce campaign to embrace the failures of Herbert Hoover and the Bush presidency, and even supported an alternative budget which called for more Bush-style tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy as a way to get us out of the recession those same policies helped create. Once again, we called on the progressive community to fight for real solutions from Congress. more »

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The State of Opportunity

By Alan Jenkins
April 7, 2009

As Obama’s first 100 days draw to a close, new research shows that addressing today’s economic crisis will require reinvesting in a bedrock American principle: Opportunity. more »

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HOUSE PASSES BUDGET THAT REPRESENTS HISTORIC CHANGE

By Toby Chaudhuri
April 2, 2009
April 1, 2009

WASHINGTON – Campaign for America’s Future co-director Roger Hickey said that the federal budget passed by President Obama’s allies in the U.S. House marks a major shift from the failed policies that got us into this economic mess.

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Debt, Deficits, and Deception

By Bernie Horn
March 29, 2009

Here it comes—an avalanche of misleading and mistaken “facts” about President Obama’s budget.

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The Obama Budget: A Stick In The Eye For Banks

By Eric Lotke
March 26, 2009

With all the fuss over Wall Street bailouts and AIG bonuses, one banking breakthrough is going unnoticed. Obama's proposed budget completely eliminates an unnecessary, obsolete bank subsidy: College student loans – where the subsidy goes to the bank, not the student. It’s a stick in the eye of the banking industry, and the banks aren’t taking it lightly. more »

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Congressional Budget Office

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By Susan Ozawa
October 31, 2008

CBO's mandate is to provide the Congress with objective, nonpartisan, and timely analyses to aid in economic and budgetary decisions on the wide array of programs covered by the federal budget, and the information and estimates required for the congressional budget process. more »

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Private Corporations Control Our Nation's War Endeavors

Submitted by Alexander Sewell
September 25, 2008

Seventy percent of the intelligence budget now goes to contractors. Private corporate interests control our nation’s most sensitive information and help direct our most critical foreign policy decisions.

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