Working Families

The Capital Region’s Metroland featured this week the Working Families Party’s campaign to push Democrats to hold Wall Street accountable and extend the bailout to the middle class:
Whose Bailout Is This?
The Working Families Party urges Congress to help the middle class get through the current financial crisis
Across New York state, members of the Working Families [...]

We did it! But Obama’s historic win is only Round One in the fight for working families.

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Dan Cantor, the Working Families Party’s Executive Director, was on WNYC’s Brian Show Lehrer Show today, calling for the bailout to include homeowners and working families and for sensible oversight – including capping Wall Street salaries at $1 million – for investment firms saved by the bailout:

Votes on the WFP ballot line count the same, but they send a powerful message about the world we want to see. Learn more.

The WFP’s campaign for a working families-friendly Congress is back at it. Help us send even more progressive champions to Washington this November.

Micah Sifry, an expert on third parties, takes a look at their problems and promise in his book, Spoiling For a Fight: Third Party Politics in America.  Here’s an excerpt:

Alternative points of view do not lack support in American public opinion. Substantial numbers of Americans-in some cases majorities-support aid to poor children, cuts in corporate [...]

Real property tax relief for working families who need it most, without jeopardizing our schools.

Even as New Yorkers feel the pinch at the pump, energy guzzling buildings consume 16% of the New York’s annual energy supply, costing the average family over $3,700 in home energy a year. That’s not because anyone forgot to turn off their lights, but because most homes aren’t energy efficient.
Last Friday, the Center for Working [...]

At a breakfast panel hosted by the Drum Major Institute today, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine called on New York’s elected leaders to pass a Paid Family Leave program similar to the one passed in New Jersey this Spring. The New Jersey program will enable employees caring for a newborn or newly-adopted child or a [...]