Working Families

Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen something unusual and promising: a gathering of people — mostly young — who are protesting the corporate power and coarse inequality that characterizes our society and economy. For weeks, these inspired and inspiring young people, under the banner of Occupy Wall Street, have occupied our attention and camped [...]

When you get under the skin of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, you know you’re doing something right.
Beck, Limbaugh and a slew of paranoid right-wing conspiracy theorists found a job listing we posted for field organizers and are using it to spread a rumor that the protesters down at Occupy Wall Street are being paid [...]

This post was written by Matthew Cain, one of several WFP staffers who went down to the labor and community march in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street after work today.
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I just got back from the march. The energy was palpable before we even arrived at Foley Square. Taking the subway from the office, it [...]

Over the past two weeks, we’ve seen something unusual and promising: a gathering of people — mostly young — who are protesting the corporate power and coarse inequality that characterizes our society and economy. For two weeks, these inspired and inspiring young people, under the banner of Occupy Wall Street, [...]

Yesterday, the Congressional supercommittee tasked with reducing the budget deficit by more than a trillion dollars held an all-day closed-door meeting.[1]
We don’t know what happened at the meeting. But we do know that they are looking at cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Much of what’s sold as deficit reduction could [...]

Ever since the Tea Party takeover of Congress, they’ve been waging vicious class warfare – on behalf of the rich, against everyone else.
It’s hard to believe: after two years of gut-wrenching recession and non-stop budget battles, the richest Americans still haven’t sacrificed a single penny.
Millions of Americans have seen jobs disappear, homes foreclosed and retirement [...]

A decade isn’t much time in the scheme of things, but we use them to delineate history and capture something about our lives. The Roaring Twenties. The Thirties of the Great Depression. The Sixties.
The 9/11 Decade doesn’t have a name yet, but it will someday. Maybe the Lost Decade. The terrorist attacks not only tore [...]

A week after the Tea Party succeeded in making a bad situation worse, Verizon workers from Virginia to Massachusetts have gone on strike.
Why? Because Verizon, a Tea Party Corporation if there ever was one, wants to destroy the middle-class life — nothing fancy, but stable and with a future — that the 45,000 union workers [...]

Last week, more than 5,000 Working Families supporters signed a petition urging the state’s Board of Regents to launch an internal investigation into the $27 million no-bid contract awarded to Rupert Murdoch’s company Wireless Generation, but the Board is pushing ahead. Sign the petition to ask Comptroller Tom DiNapoli to block this deal.

Last night, the New York State Senate joined the State Assembly in creating marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. Governor Cuomo has signed the bill, and marriages will take effect in 30 days.

Today marks another step in history’s uneven but resolute march to justice.