Category: Economic Security
- 02/08/12 Unemployment Insurance Under Attack, Again Two-month stopgap extension set to expire, ending benefits for 6 million unemployed workers.
- 01/06/12 Yes, Ultra Conservatives: There Really Is an Income Gap The gap between the very rich and everyone else has been growing for decades.
- 09/30/11 Ten Senators Sign on to Merkley Proposal Endorsed by AFSCME, AFL-CIO Senator Merkley's proposal to score the jobs impact of deficit reduction schemes is gaining support in the Senate.
- 09/29/11 Citizens Call on Representatives to Pass Jobs Act NOW! Events put pressure on Congress to pass President Barack Obama’s jobs bill.
- 09/27/11 Unions Build the Middle Class, Report Concludes A new report shows how closely middle class prosperity is tied to union strength.
- 09/14/11 ‘Americans Are Hurting’ Census Bureau data shows poverty has gone up while household incomes have gone down.
- 09/09/11 President Obama is Right: The Country Needs Jobs Now The American Jobs Act, is a necessary first step to growing jobs in an economy that was sent reeling by Wall Street and corporate excesses during the previous administration.
- 09/02/11 Another Dismal Jobs Report Suggests the Economy Needs More Investment, Not Cuts The President and Congress should focus on creating jobs.
- 07/22/11 Shared Sacrifice? Not in the ‘Gang of Six’ Plan Ad tells it straight about the shortcomings of the “Gang of Six” deficit plan.
- 07/19/11 Tax and Budget Cutting Don’t Create Jobs The policies implemented by anti-worker state governors are behind our stalled economic recovery.
