Working Families

Could Albany be bleeding the economy dry just as President-elect Obama tries to inject fresh blood?

Yesterday, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman joined the growing chorus of economists warning that  Obama’s much-needed economic stimulus measures could be partially undone if America’s…

Dispatches from the front lines of the fight for a fair budget.

Seen the details of Gov. Paterson’s proposed budget?

There are dozens of regressive taxes — on sugar, on car registrations, on health insurance, on clothes, on going to the movies, and even a tax on downloading music.  In total,…

WFP Director Dan Cantor was a guest on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show today discussing Gov. David Paterson’s unfair budget proposal. On Tuesday, the Governor offered a budget that raises billions in taxes on the middle class, makes devastating cuts to…

Contact:  Dan Levitan

According to a poll conducted by Kiley & Company, and commissioned by the Working Families Party, the vast majority of New Yorkers are in strong opposition to the planned cuts by Gov. David Paterson and are in strong…

The Hartford Courant profiles the up and coming Connecticut Working Families Party.  Worth a read:

Jon Green, state director of the Working Families Party, poses with Sarah Hambrick, left, and Urania Petit, co-chairwomen of the Working Families State Committee. Green says the…

Syndicated columnist and author David Sirota takes a look today at the importance of down-ballot races for building progressive power.  It’s a strategy, as Sirota notes, that the WFP has used to build real power for working people here in New York:

Those…

The meteoric rise of our sister party in Connecticut doesn’t stop, and the press is starting to take notice.  They didn’t get everything right (for example - the WFP has proven that it does bring in new voters, even when it cross-endorses),…

Results are still coming in, but it’s already clear that our amazing growth only continued in 2008

The WFP sent highly targeted mail pieces to independents and union members in key congressional races, asking them to “vote your values” by voting  on the Working Families ballot line  - “Row E”

Here’s two example mail pieces we used to…