Working Families

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 [...]