The Academy Awards of Voter Suppression
There are unfortunately many worthy candidates vying for recognition when it comes to denying access to the ballot box, but this year’s awards go to the individuals and groups that stand out from all the rest. Read more →
Top 5 Facts About the ‘Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces’ Executive Order
Two subcommittees of the U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee will jointly debate President Barack Obama’s most recent contracting executive order today. The order helps fix a broken system and protects taxpayers, law-abiding businesses, and millions of American workers.
Anti-Science Climate Denier Caucus: 114th Congress
After the warmest year in recorded history, a shocking number of congressional Republicans deny or question the science behind human-caused climate change.
Economy
Infographic: The Middle Class Needs Unions
As union membership has declined, the share of income going to the middle class has shrunk.
Race and Ethnicity
The Ridiculous Premise of Romney 2016: Champion of the Poor
No amount of repackaging can change the fact that Mitt Romney’s economic policies would devastate the poor and prove catastrophic for struggling American families.
Poverty
State of the States Report 2014
Report
To make substantive change and dramatically reduce poverty and inequality in the United States, we must harness the momentum on the state and local level.
Poverty
Building Local Momentum for National Change
Report
Progress on passing policies to cut poverty at the national level remains frustratingly stagnant, but an anti-poverty agenda is building momentum at the local level.
Labor and Work
Unions Are Among the Very Few Interest Groups that Represent the Middle Class
Unions provide the middle class a much-needed voice in the policymaking process, and their decline portends further trouble for most Americans.
General
Backfire: Republican Rhetoric in 2014 Will Be an Albatross for 2016
Issue Brief
While Republicans’ far-right positions may help drive the conservative base in 2014, many of their actions and messages risk alienating the rising American electorate of 2016—Latinos, Millennials, African Americans, and women.
General
10 Things to Expect Next Year If Republicans Win the Senate
Issue Brief
Progressive issues from health care to the environment are at stake in this year’s election.
Economy
Cory’s Colorado
Issue Brief
In an economic climate where Colorado’s leaders should be fighting to expand the middle class, Rep. Cory Gardner’s policy positions on women’s health and women’s economic security would squeeze the budgets of working women and their families even more.
Labor and Work
New Census Data Once Again Illustrate Importance of Unions to the Middle Class
Strong unions are necessary to maintain a robust middle class. If action is not taken to prevent their further erosion, the middle class’ share of America’s economic gains may continue to shrink.
Economy
Kochonomics in Wisconsin and North Carolina
Report
How the Koch brothers and their network created a system that benefits their bottom line regardless of everyone else.
Economy
The Failure to Raise the Minimum Wage Hurts Iowa’s Families and Economy
Issue Brief
Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst’s extreme position on the minimum wage has no place in the Hawkeye State.
Economy
Kochonomics
Report
The Koch brothers and their sprawling political network are expanding beyond federal and even state policy and are going local to manipulate the economic and political system to benefit their bottom line at the expense of everyone else.
