Today's Ideas & Actions
January 4, 2012
Worker Victory On Payroll Tax Break
House Speaker John Boehner backs down and Congress supports a two-month extension of a worker payroll tax cut and extended unemployment insurance benefits. More than 16,000 of our supporters joined thousands of others in demanding that House Republicans end their sabotage of the economy. Read our commentary »
On TheMiddleClass.org: Who was responsible for the payroll tax fiasco? See how your representative voted »
Progressive Plan For 5 Million Jobs
We've been calling for bold, immediate solutions to the nation's jobless crisis and fundamental reforms to the nation's economy. Now the Congressional Progressive Caucus has offered an alternative to the temporary patches and outright giveaways to the rich that are at the heart of legislative gridlock in Washington. Read our commentary »
The Truth Of The Year: Conservatives
Did Try To End Medicare
We joined other experts and progressive pundits in challenging PolitiFact's designation as "the lie of the year" our assertions that conservative Rep. Paul Ryan's plan to change Medicare into subsidized private insurance in effect ended Medicare. Read why we and others called PolitiFact's rating "politifiction" »
Learning From Conservative Failures Across The Ocean
As governments in Europe and elsewhere adopt conservative austerity economic policies, we are assembling the best information and analysis of the effects from our own writers and from other progressive sources.
Who Was Working For You In 2011?
For the past year we've been tracking the major bills in Congress that affect the interest of the middle class and lower-income people. See which members of Congress have been fighting to put people back to work in 2011 and which ones deserve a lump of coal in their stocking on our companion legislative analysis site, TheMiddleClass.org »
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Newsroom
Fight Over Payroll Taxes and Unemployment Proves Republicans Are Sabotaging the Economy
“There they go again. The country needs these measures to infuse cash into the economy and the Republicans torpedo them for political reasons,” said Roger Hickey, co-director of Campaign for America’s Future. “House Republicans claim they support extending payroll tax cuts and unemployment insurance, but every time Congress gets close, they add on onerous conditions or renege on previous deals. We call that sabotage.”
