Working Families

We’ve been fighting against fracking for two years. We’ve won a temporary moratorium. But now it’s coming down to the wire.
The Department of Environmental Conservation has written their draft environmental impact report. If approved, it would open the door to allow the frackers to start drilling. Once the drills start – and once those chemicals [...]

After Wednesday’s wonderful City Council resolution against corporate personhood, Councilmembers Melissa Mark-Viverito and Brad Lander, the co-chairs of the Progressive Caucus, sent us this thank you note for you.
It’s not every day we get validation that our online petitions and email campaigns actually matter. But clearly they do (check out [...]

With your help, NYC took a stand against Citizens United. Now we’re launching a campaign to end corporate control of end corporate control of elections in New York State. But we need your help.

Dan Cantor appeared on CNN’s American Morning today to talk about the next steps for Occupy Wall Street.
“Of course it’s the power of their ideas that has captured the day, to a degree,” he said. “But we live in a society where money often trumps speech. … So it’s wrong to say it’s merely the [...]

From Wall Street to Wasilla[1], Americans are demanding that politicians stand up for all of us, not just the top 1%. The reason: our society, and our economy, are out of whack.
President Obama’s jobs proposal will not pass in Congress. The Republicans have made that clear. Washington may not create jobs, [...]

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 [...]