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Union supporters of Obama
What Labor Can Learn From the Obama Campaign (Labor, Electoral Politics)

It’s time to harness data.

Suresh Naidu and Dorian T. Warren
Build a Democracy Movement (Labor, Voting)

“Money Out, Voting In” should become labor’s mantra.

Larry Cohen
Become a Movement of All Workers (Labor Organizing and Activism, Labor)

Let’s stop waiting for the government to tell us who can organize.

Bhairavi Desai
Labor protest
Time for Labor to Mobilize Immigrants (Labor, Immigration to the US)

Immigration reform can be labor’s game-changer.

Maria Elena Durazo
Fight for the Whole Society (Unions)

To survive, unions need to be better neighbors.

Karen GJ Lewis
Obama Takes a Stand Against Austerity (Barack Obama, Economic Policy)

He may not have achieved the full FDR, but the president’s State of the Union speech, like his Inaugural, displayed a welcome progressive spirit.

The Editors
Obama in a camera's viewfinder
The Missing Link in Obama's Liberalism (Barack Obama, Corporate Lobbying, Media Analysis, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty, The Left)

The president's inaugural address touched all the important bases, except one.

Eric Alterman
United We Bargain, Divided We Beg
How Two-Tier Union Contracts Became Labor's Undoing (Labor, Unions, Wages and Hours)

Establishing lower pay for new hires, these agreements have undermined union solidarity by opening a gulf between generations.

Louis Uchitelle
Megaphone that reads Tax the Rich
The Great Regression (Economic Policy, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty, Taxes)

The decline of the progressive income tax and the rise of inequality.

Sam Pizzigati and Chuck Collins
President Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton Calls for US Companies to Send Home Billions Banked Offshore (Corporations, Outsourcing and off shoring)

At the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Wall Street Project event, Clinton said taxes earned on up to 1.7 trillion repatriated dollars should be used to build a jobs-creating infrastructure fund.

Alleen Brown

Blogs

Go Gang of Seventy
Katrina vanden Heuvel

The People’s Budget is endorsed by a Gang of Seventy, not a Gang of Six—not to mention a majority of Americans. Why won't the establishment pay attention to it?

July 20, 2011
'Gang of Six' Plan? 'Not So Fast,' Says Bernie Sanders
John Nichols

The president and some Republicans like the bipartisan deficit reduction scheme, but Sanders calls it a threat to the safety net and economic fairness.

July 19, 2011
Youth Continue to Fight for Their Future
The Notion

Despite having the deck stacked overwhelmingly against them, students continue to fight for their future.

July 19, 2011
Will Obama Fight for Post-Warren Consumer Bureau?
The Notion

Obama was unwilling to fight for Elizabeth Warren. Will he now fight for the survival of the consumer bureau she convinced him to create?

July 18, 2011
This Week: A Jobs Crisis, Not a Deficit Crisis. PLUS: Four Major Investigations
Katrina vanden Heuvel

This week, gridlock over the debt-crisis is deflecting attention from the real issue—14 million people unemployed. The Murdoch scandle gets worse; contributor D.D. Guttenplan asks, “Is this is the end of Rupert?” And four groundbreaking investigations.

July 15, 2011
With ALEC Exposed, Common Cause Demands an IRS Audit of Corporate-Funded Group's Gaming of State Lawmaking
John Nichols

Revelations about American Legislative Exchange Council project to link corporate interests with state legislators to impose an agenda that protects polluters, privatizes public education, breaks unions and undermines democracy raises questions about whether group is “evading lobbying disclosure laws,” violating tax breaks designed to encourage charitable contributions and doing “an end-run around state ethics laws.”

July 15, 2011
Budget Cuts and the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike
The Notion

 Gov. Jerry Brown's prison budget cuts ensure that what is happening at Pelican Bay won't be an isolated event.

July 15, 2011
What Keeps Single Women From Saving for Retirement?
Nation in the News

Women's social roles—not to mention structural economic constraints—actually make it more expensive to be female in the United States.

July 14, 2011
Celebrating Woody Guthrie's Birthday With Arlo and the Radical Version of 'This Land...'
John Nichols

In Wisconsin, union activists are joining Arlo Guthrie to sing the full version of "This Land Is Your Land" -- including the class-conscious, economic-justice lines.

July 14, 2011
What Was Obama's Secret in Winning the Debt Standoff?
The Notion

Some liberals argue Obama's three-dimensional chess is finally paying off.

July 13, 2011