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By Scott N. Paul
Director, AAM
Last week saw the start of February, and in Washington the start of the month means data dumps. Numbers. Economic numbers. Jobs numbers. Lots of numbers.
Depending on their content (and on whether or not there’s something deemed more interesting taking place on Capitol Hill) these reports are either trumpeted or...

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By Richard (RJ) Eskow
Senior Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future
Whom the gods would destroy, the old saying says, they first make mad. And there’s no quicker way to become completely untethered than to read economic reports, including the latest one from the Congressional Budget Office, and then wa...

By Robert Reich
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley
Can we just keep things in perspective? On Tuesday, the President asked Republicans to join him in finding more spending cuts and revenues before the next fiscal cliff whacks the economy at the end of the month.
Yet that same day,

By Jared Bernstein
Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
If you wanted to be (overly) generous in your interpretation of the CBO data out yesterday, you might say that we’re sacrificing the near term f...

My surgery went fine Friday. I had to use FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act) for the next couple months of work I’ll be missing.
Twenty years ago last week, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) into law.
Before the passage of the FMLA, far too many workers had to make the intolerable choice between keeping their jobs or taking the time to give birth or deal with a family crisis. The FMLA extended a much-needed helping hand to families in their time of need and it has now benefited more than 10 million working families.
Now, t...

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Jackie Tortora
AFL-CIO Blog/Social Media ManagerWhy not give your valentine some union-made sweets this Feb. 14? It turns out, there are many union-made trea...

By Richard (RJ) Eskow
Senior Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future
Alan Simpson’s the lead pitchman for a billionaire- and corporate-funded initiative to slash Social Security that has subjected the public to years of nonstop haranguing and lecturing.
The lecturing’s gotten crude, too, as when Simpson insisted that anyone who disagrees with him is shoveli...

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Terrance Heath
Online Producer, Campaign for America’s Future
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is working hard to rescue the GOP’s “lost” message. You can’t blame him for trying. There are, of course, several pro...

By Mike Hall
AFL-CIO Senior Writer
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe’s plan to end Saturday mail delivery beginning Aug. 5 is a “disastrous idea that would have a profoundly negative effect on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and on millions of customers,” says Letter Carriers (NALC) Pr...

See how Texas passed a discriminatory law that would have denied Victoria Rose Rodriguez, a college student in San Antonio, the right to vote....

By Richard (RJ) Eskow
Senior Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future
Before we begin, let’s take a moment to ponder the absurdity of a system in which:
a) for-profit corporations are allowed to call themselves “agencies”;
b) the government — that is, us — has given these for-profit companies trillion-dollar influence over the financ...

By Jim Hightower
Author, Commentator, America’s Number One Populist
The once haughty tea party has been whittled down to only a nub of its former self, with only eight percent of Americans now identifying themselves with the faction.
And no wonder–the fiery movement that sprang from legitimate anger over the government bail...

Robert Borosage
Co-Director Campaign for America's Future
Moderation in a madhouse is a dubious virtue.  A balanced dose of poison may mask, but doesn’t stop the damage.  Yet, this is what President Obama was reduced to in Washington’s Mad Hatter budget debate.  Here is a brief guide through the garble:
1.  We can&rs...