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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
The debt ceiling deal is done, now we must protect vital programs, press for new revenues and create jobs. We can raise new revenue by closing corporate loopholes and raising taxes for millionaires and billionaires. This would fund job creation – which, in turn, would help our economy get back on its feet.
USAction affiliates, including [...]
Image above via Center for American Progress: The Choices Still to Be Made in the New Debt Deal
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