Category: Economic Security
- 06/28/11 Big Surprise: States That Cut the Most Spending Have Lost the Most Jobs Economic data contradicts Republican's pet economic theory - state spending cuts are correlated with higher unemployment and lower growth.
- 05/26/11 Congress’ Attack on Unemployed Workers Instead of helping Americans get back to work, new legislation would restrict unemployment benefits.
- 05/10/11 Shining a Light on House GOP Budget Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid The Republican budget plan replaces Medicare with a voucher system and slashes Medicaid spending.
- 05/02/11 USDA Tells Walker: Don’t Privatize Food Assistance Program! The federal government notifies Wisconsin that privatizing the FoodShare program would violate the law.
- 04/04/11 Memphis Sanitation Workers Remember Memphis sanitation workers from the famous 1968 strike stand in solidarity with workers across the country who are fighting the same battle for rights today.
- 04/04/11 Today We Are One
- 04/01/11 Poll: Americans Back Unions Over Govs A national Gallup poll released today shows that more Americans side with public employee unions than with governors who are trying to strip collective bargaining rights and slash public services.
- 03/31/11 New Haven, Conn.: Thousands Rally in Solidarity with Workers under Siege More than 3,000 union members and their progressive allies marched on the streets on New Haven, Conn. Wednesday.
- 03/30/11 Michiganders: Change Constitution to Protect Collective Bargaining
- 03/30/11 Just Say No to SB 5 Today, the Ohio state House is set to vote on Senate Bill 5 (SB 5), a bill that would strip collective bargaining rights from 350,000 public service workers in the state. SB 5 is one of the cornerstones in Gov. John Kasich’s plan.
