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 Governors cut their way out of their state’s budget gaps:
…But even as Washington tries [...]

Working Families is leading a broad coalition to fight Governor Paterson’s devastating budget cuts.

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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, billions of dollars in tax hikes on working families.
At the same [...]

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 services we need, and all without asking the wealthy to share the burden.
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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 support of a solution to the State’s budget crisis that uses a combination of both [...]

The Hartford Courant profiles the up and coming Connecticut Working Families Party.  Worth a read:
Working Families Party Has Major Goals
By MARK PAZNIOKAS | The Hartford Courant
December 14, 2008
The Green and Libertarian parties portrayed themselves in federal court last week as victims of Connecticut’s campaign-finance law.
But the Working Families Party refused to join 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 other elections
By David Sirota
Updated: 12/04/2008 10:29:57 PM MST
A month after Barack Obama’s triumphant [...]

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), but last Friday’s New Haven Register article shows just how far we’ve come:

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