February 29, 2012
From HCAN: HCAN has a cool new website! Our goal was to create a visually pleasing site that provides unique information about our federal and state campaigns. HCAN is pushing to defend and implement the Affordable Care Act, protect Medicare and Medicaid, and hold corporations and the GOP accountable for attacking our health care, the public sector, labor unions and all [...]

February 1, 2012
The economic picture for state and local governments could worsen in coming months, teachers across the country are being handed their pink slips working families are struggling and all experts agree that unemployment rates will not dramatically decrease anytime soon. Meanwhile, legislation providing needed assistance is languishing in Congress. ASK SENATORS TO VOTE FOR THE AMERICAN [...]

February 1, 2012
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is introducing the “Pay A Fair Share Act” today in the Senate. This bill would make it so millionaires and billionaires paying lower tax rates than the middle class would have to pay a 30 percent effective tax rate. President Obama asked for the “Buffett Rule” in his State of the Union speech, calling [...]

February 1, 2012
FROM USACTION: Jobs and the Economy Stand in solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet and tell the world We need an economy that works for the 99%, not the 1%! Stand with USAction and Sen. Merkley and tell the Supercommittee: Don’t Ignore JOBS! Tell Congress: Pass President Obama’s American Jobs Act and KEEP GOING! Tell Monster.com, CareerBuilder and all major employment websites: Refuse ads that discriminate [...]

February 1, 2012
Washington, DC – On the second anniversary of the much-despised Citizens United ruling, protesters gathered at the high court and unfurled a large banner reading “U.S. Supreme Koch” to protest the undue influence that far-right special interests and billionaires like the Koch brothers wield over the Court and U.S. politics. Two years ago, the Citizens United ruling [...]