Funding Priorities Based on American Values
A budget is a reflection of our priorities as a nation. America's working middle class has sacrificed enough with drastic cuts to services. Meanwhile, 2010 tax revenues were the lowest in over three generations, and tax rates are at historic lows. The surefire way to balance the budget is to create jobs, close corporate tax loopholes and require the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share. We have a revenue problem and a priorities problem — not a spending problem.
- House Budget Threatens Medicare
- Americans for Tax Fairness
- Fact Sheet: President Obama’s American Jobs Act
- Fact Sheet: Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act
- Fact Sheet: Infrastructure Banks
- Infographic: Income, Taxes and the Wealthy
- The True Meaning Of Tax Cuts
- Top 5 Percent Holds More Than Half of the Country's Wealth
- Taxes Matter Top 10 Stats
- Mar 20AFSCME Opposes Chairman Ryan's Budget Resolution
- Mar 13AFSCME Letter of Concern Over Continuing Resolution Vote H.R. 933
- Mar 12Ryan Budget Is Nothing More than a Time Machine Ride Back to Financial InstabilityStatement of AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders on Rep. Paul Ryan’s GOP Budget
Extremist Republicans Present: The Sequester
Coming soon to a community near you: $85 billion in cuts to vital programs that Americans rely on every day. These cuts -- known as The Sequester -- can be...
Fighting Back
2011 was a pivotal year for the working middle class. It started with the scapegoating of public service workers for the country's economic woes, and continued with unprecedented attacks on...
One Nation Working Together 10-2-2010
Thousands of AFSCME members participated in the One Nation Working Together march and rally in Washington, DC on October 2, 2010.
Doors
AFSCME's latest television spot, entitled "Doors," focuses on the choice voters face in the November mid-term election. More here: http://www.afscme.org/press/29088.cfm The television spot will run for two weeks in media...
- Mar 01 When Sequestration Hits, Women and Children Bear Heavy Burden of Cuts Let's close the tax loopholes enjoyed by the wealthiest Americans before we make life far... (Huffington Post)
- Jan 15 Massive Cuts are Coming Unless We Work Together It’s time to pull together to prepare America for the future. Together, we must be... (Huffington Post)
- Nov 30 The Road to Jobs and Economic Growth One of the great lies of our time is that raising taxes on the wealthy... (Huffington Post)
- Aug 31 Labor Day and the Future of America We must do more to insure that future Americans live in a country where their... (Huffington Post)
- Jul 20 Ending Bush tax cuts for rich would save about $80 billion in 2013, analysts say A Republican proposal to preserve tax cuts for the nation’s wealthiest households next year… (Washington Post)
- Jul 12 The Road to More Jobs The Republicans’ relentless opposition to constructive policies has kept unemployment high… (New York Times)
- Oct 06 Why the GOP Won’t Vote on the American Jobs Act Putting more people to work is the last thing House Republicans want to accomplish. (Daily Kos)
- Sep 27 State Worker Benefits Threatened as U.S. Supercommittee Considers Cuts A congressional supercommittee is seeking another $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction, which may cut deeply... (Bloomberg)
- Aug 03 Labor Steamed at Debt Deal, But Do They Blame Obama? President Obama met for more than hour with the executive committee of the AFL-CIO Tuesday... (ABC News)
- Aug 02 Stalemate in Senate Leaves 4,000 Out of Work at F.A.A. Senate negotiators tried and failed on Tuesday to end a stalemate over temporary financing for... (New York Times )
- Aug 02 Fewer cops, more potholes: How debt deal could hit states hardest The debt-and-deficit bill will slash aid to states already reeling from the recession. (Christian Science Monitor )
- Jul 22 Unions Go After Gang Of Six Deficit-Cutting Plan: 'It Would Kill Jobs' Unions are coming down hard on the so-called "Gang of Six" deficit-cutting plan, blasting the... (Huffington Post)
- Mar 20 Invisible but Important: Unseen Sequestration Cuts Put All at Risk Sometimes it’s the things we can’t see that we really need the most. (Blog)
- Feb 27 Double-Speak on the Debt Crisis Fix the Debt’s real motive is not to fix the debt, but to protect the tax loopholes that benefit its members. (Blog)
- Feb 22 Right Wing Loves Its Loopholes There’s a simple path to avoid 1 million job losses from sequestration. (Blog)
- Feb 14 AFSCME Members Take their Message to the Hill Workers from across the country went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to lobby their legislators. (Blog)
- Feb 13 Tea Party Favorite Sets His Sights on Our Rights Sen. Rand Paul introduces national right-to-work-for-less law in Congress. (Blog)
- Feb 12 Workers Rally on Capitol Hill for “Jobs, Not Cuts” Show of solidarity unites members of AFSCME, AFL-CIO, AFGE, SEIU, CWA. (Blog)
- Feb 12 Saunders Calls for Forging Labor Unity Leaders from nation’s major unions say stronger unity is critical to rebuilding the middle class. (Blog)
- Feb 12 Members’ Courageous Stories Earn Prestigious Reed Award Videos helped show how Mitt Romney’s harmful economic policies would affect working people across America. (Blog)
- Feb 12 UPDATED: AFSCME Members Gather to Watch State of the Union Check back for live reactions from the address. And play SOTU bingo at home. (Blog)
- Feb 01 AFSCME Under 35 Members United in Demanding Jobs, Not Cuts Join a National Day of Action event to help end the budget showdown in Capitol Hill. (Blog)
- Jan 22 Who Are the “Working Poor”? New study is sobering reminder of why we must protect the nation’s economic safety net. (Blog)
- Jan 15 Register Now for Dynamic Legislative Conference Want to raise your voice for workers? Come to Washington, DC, and do just that. (Blog)
