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 [...]

January 18, 2012

December 14, 2011
Our representatives in Congress were elected to create jobs for unemployed people and to get the economy back on track for everyone. Politicians in Washington should vote plain and simple to extend the lifeline of unemployment insurance benefits for the millions of Americans who stand to lose them —without also voting to kill 140,000 jobs and [...]

November 9, 2011

October 27, 2011
This week the Alliance for Retired Americans and Social Security Works have co-released the following reports via press calls and on the ground field events. The reports highlight the critical economic and safety net roles of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and point to the potentially devastating impacts that would occur if the Super Committee [...]

October 17, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                                   Contact:  Erin Knott October 17, 2011                                                                                                                        Phone: (616) 901.9649 (cell) Supercommittee Members Camp and Upton Took Big Cash from Wall Street, Big Oil, and Insurance Interests in the Third Quarter How will big corporate cash influence decisions of the deficit reduction committee members? Kalamazoo, MI–Michigan members of the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction, Reps. [...]