Our broken health care system hurts everyone. Health insurance premiums are going up three times faster than pay, with many working families shouldering a growing share of those costs. They are paying more and getting less -- while being forced to fight with insurance companies to get the care they...

This morning, more than 20 leading progressive organizations and unions, including AFSCME, announced the creation of the Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery Now, a major campaign to pass President-elect Obama's jobs and economic recovery package.

The President-elect's dramatic, bold and innovative program is a clear sign that...

President-elect Barack Obama holds an unprecedented meeting tomorrow with the nation's governors at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. He has called the meeting to discuss the impact of the ailing economy on state budgets and to outline key steps that need to be taken to revive the nation's economy. This...

Right-wing critics of public employee pensions will use any angle to convince folks that these plans are bankrupting states, cities and towns. In the Wall Street Journal this week, Steve Malanga blames pension plans for today's economic difficulties and in the same piece urges governments to sell off their...

The election of Barack Obama and a new Congress demonstrated that the American people are hungry for real change. The vast majority want policies that are neither left nor right. Instead they want change that moves the country forward and solves the problems they face every day. The American people...

Throughout this extraordinary campaign, Barack Obama challenged us to believe that we have the power to change America, and to change the world. On Election Day, America responded to his challenge with a resounding "Yes We Can." As a result, we can now begin the urgent work of rebuilding the...

Over the past week I've been on the campaign trail in Ohio and Pennsylvania meeting people who are yearning for change. I can't begin to describe all the disappointments they've had over the last eight years of a rigged economy that has favored the privileged and left the rest of...

When news outlets report job losses and unemployment, it's easy for us to focus on abstractions. Especially when we are talking about the impact of George W. Bush's failed economic and trade policies, because the numbers are huge. But it's not about numbers -- it's about how the poor economy...

I'm not sure what debate the editors of The Wall Street Journal were watching last night, but it sure wasn't the one I viewed. There is something out of whack when they write this morning that "Barack Obama showed again in last night's debate that he sure is comfortable with...

With the passage of financial rescue legislation today, Congress took an important step to pull us away from the brink of disaster. The final bill is not the blank check the Bush administration demanded two weeks ago. Rather than protecting Wall Street profits, it now protects the taxpayers and adds...

Traditionally, in America, political candidates don't hide from the press. Yet, until last week, that's exactly what the Republican candidate for vice president had been doing. Unlike Joe Biden, who has met with the press more than 40 times since joining the Democratic ticket, Sarah Palin had never held a...

After days of silence from the White House, President Bush emerged last night to tell a national television audience that his request for a $700 billion blank check for bankers was dead. Instead, the president capitulated on some of the key points that Democrats, labor and progressive groups have been...

On Monday of last week, John McCain discussed the economic crisis facing Wall Street before an audience in Jacksonville, Florida. Reflecting on the turmoil then engulfing the economy, McCain reassured the crowd that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong." It is a line he has used repeatedly throughout...

The federal government has taken unprecedented but necessary action to quiet the turmoil in the U.S. mortgage markets and protect the thousands of homeowners who stand at the brink of foreclosure.

If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had been allowed to fail, serious calamities would have extended across our...

Since January, more than 600,000 Americans have lost their jobs. The jobless rate is at a five-year high. Home foreclosures are at a 30-year high. Food and fuel costs are skyrocketing. On Thursday the Dow plunged more than 300 points. Yet John McCain spoke last night for close to an...

Labor Day traditionally marks the start of the election season. This year is certainly no different, but the stakes are much higher than they've been in a long time. The economy is in trouble, unemployment is high, bankruptcies are up, and families are finding their budgets crimped by rising gas,...

Every time you look around lately, John McCain and friends are spouting off about important issues like the economy, globalization and Social Security. And with each passing day, they give Americans a clearer sign of just how out of touch they really are.

Earlier this week, Senator McCain...

On Monday, July 7, Senator John McCain told a Denver town hall meeting that Social Security, as originally conceived more than 70 years ago, is an "absolute disgrace."

"Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America...

Our health care system is broken and it's hurting American families and businesses. That's why AFSCME is co-chairing "Health Care for America Now," an unprecedented coalition of major organizations including labor unions, community-based membership groups, women's groups, health professionals, businesses and leading netroots activists working together to push for...

Collectors of political memorabilia recently missed a golden opportunity to increase the value of their collections. Last week in Riverside, California, Kelly and Duane Roberts hosted a fundraising luncheon for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign. Tickets for the noontime luncheon in the Raincross Ballroom of the Riverside Convention Center went...