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On Social Security, Pollsters Need To Ask The Right Questions

Two polls released in the past 24 hours send decidedly different messages on Social Security. The lesson: Be careful what you ask. One poll released Thursday by Bloomberg seems to show that a...

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Tell Washington To ‘Pull The Pork’ From Defense Spending Hogs

While progressive organizations, Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration correctly focus on the damage the federal spending cuts to be forced by the March 1 sequester will do to the overall...

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Sorry, Tyler Cowen, We’re Not Taking Any More Lumps

I have a message for Tyler Cowen, the occasional New York Times columnist and George Mason University professor who was quoted this morning in a Times story on the effects of the upcoming federal...

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Obama on Sequester Impact: No Exaggeration To Struggling Families Facing A...

The smackdown that President Obama delivered today to people who assert that he and others are exaggerating the impact of the sequestration for dramatic effect is worth publishing in full: Q: What do...

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Think Bold On Jobs: A $1 Trillion Transportation Plan

One of the consequences of the federal spending sequester now in place is that $4 billion is being cut this year from transportation and infrastructure programs, according to House Transportation and...

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A Low Bar Set For Mary Jo White At SEC Confirmation Hearing

We were hoping that the Senate Banking Committee would give Mary Jo White, President Obama’s choice to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a tough grilling at today’s confirmation...

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ALERT: The 124 House Members Who Need Your Calls On The Back To Work Budget

There are 124 member of Congress who need to hear from you now about your support for the Congressional Progressive Caucus Back to Work Budget. Between now and an anticipated vote on Tuesday, these...

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Inside CPAC: Adele Stan on the Takeaway For Progressives

Adele Stan, the Washington editor of AlterNet, says that as crazy and extreme as some of what is said and done at the Conservative Political Action Conference seems to be, progressives should still be...

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Back to Work Budget Is Defeated, But The Struggle Will Continue

The Congressional Progressive Caucus Back to Work Budget, as expected, did not prevail on the floor of the House of Representatives today. It went down to defeat, 84-327. In fact, it did not even win...

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Hedrick Smith: It’s Human Deficits, Not Budget Deficits

Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Hedrick Smith is definitely on a mission these days, barnstorming the country not only to promote his latest book, “Who Stole the American...

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The Sinking American Electorate: African Americans Still In Depression

When President Obama formally unveils his fiscal 2014 budget on Wednesday, a lot of the progressive movement focus will be on his plan to cut Social Security benefits through a reduced cost-of-living...

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Class War: Politico Acknowledges Key To Democratic Party Success

In our post-mortem of the 2012 elections, the Campaign for America’s Future was one of the few organizations willing to say that “class war” was not only the common theme of many of the Democratic...

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Time To Demand A Vote To Increase The Minimum Wage

It is time – in fact, it is past time – to demand that Congress act to increase the minimum wage. This week, the effort to get Congress to act is accelerating. As of late Wednesday, more than 15,000...

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Pivot Point’s Maya Rockeymoore On Whether Obama’s Policies Are Failing Us

A critique of the impact on African Americans of using the chained CPI to limit the cost-of-living adjustment on Social Security benefits and my criticism of President Obama’s jobs proposals were...

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Enough Is Enough: Take Action Today To Fix A Broken Senate

Today, the Campaign for America’s Future is joining 100 other organizations in delivering a message to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell: Enough is...

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In Rush To Address Hours-Long Flight Delays, Congress Ignores Years-Long...

We know how quickly Congress responded last week to air travelers who had to wait an extra hour or two to get to their travel destinations. Imagine waiting 28 years. That’s how long a person — a...

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The Bite of Apple: Firm Dodges Enough Taxes To Cover Much of Sequester

The scheme that Apple cooked up this week to finance a $55 billion stock buyback for its shareholders was orchestrated to avoid paying $9.2 billion in taxes, Bloomberg reported Friday. That $9.2...

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Rick Perlstein: Questions The Senate Should Ask Penny Pritzker (Video)

Rick Perlstein, a former writer for the Campaign for America’s Future who now writes for The Nation, has a detailed and deeply troubling two-part examination (Part I and Part II) of President Obama’s...

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The ‘Party Of No’ Acts Out Again, Won’t Even Vote on EPA Nominee

Right-wing obstructionism reached another low today when Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee would not even show up to vote today on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be...

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Lift The Millstone of Student Debt That’s Slowing The Economy

Do you think that student loan debt is only a problem for college students and perhaps their parents? Think again. The escalation of student loan debt in the past decade is a millstone around the neck...

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