On Wednesday, Congressman Keith Ellison, Chairman of the Progressive Caucus, introduced the Inclusive Prosperity Act, which would generate hundreds of billions of dollars a year through a tiny tax on Wall Street trading. It's the exact kind of bold leadership and legislation our nation needs right now. April 20th, a...

During his inauguration speech, President Obama gave an inspiring speech about his vision for a country that works together for the betterment of all. From climate change to human rights, President Obama sketched out a progressive agenda, but he neglected a crucially important element: finally ending the foreclosure crisis which...

Are you among the few still unconvinced that corporations haven taken control of our politics? Then you should have been on-hand Sunday when members of both parties of the Illinois General Assembly teamed up to kill a bill to require publicly-traded corporations to disclose how much they pay in state...

Tax fairness has become a centerpiece of national debate, from the president's reelection to the recent deal surrounding the so-called fiscal cliff. Here in Illinois taxpayers want to make sure corporations in the State are paying their fair share as well. According to the Internal Revenue Service, the federal corporate...

Last Monday, Charlotte, North Carolina's city manager declared Bank of America's annual shareholder meeting taking place this Wednesday an "extraordinary event."

The extraordinary event tag refers to a city ordinance enacted in January in anticipation of the Democratic National Convention, to be held in Charlotte in...

Every day, the American Dream seems a little farther away.

More of our grandparents are being thrown from their homes. Our mothers and fathers can't retire because their pension funds tanked. Our brothers and sisters are burdened by student loan debt. For our children, budget cuts have resulted in...

Rumor has it that on Monday, after months of negotiation with big banks, the White House may announce a settlement that would let the banks off the hook for their role in the foreclosure crisis -- paying a tiny fraction of what's needed in exchange for blanket immunity from future...

Today, Senate Republicans blocked a vote to confirm Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This signals a victory for big banks, the 1%, and corporate money in our political system. Cordray's confirmation would have been a threat to business as usual for the big banks because...

On Sunday, November 27th the New York Times ran an editorial, "Romney on Foreclosures," critiquing Mitt Romney's strategy to address the foreclosure crisis. The piece is right on target. Romney's plan, which is to essentially do nothing and let struggling homeowners across the board lose their homes, would...

There's been much discussion about how Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless movement. The incredibly organic, democratic nature of what is emerging is exactly what makes it powerful and inspiring, as well as challenging for the 1 percent to directly attack or extinguish.

Every movement worth its...

Unwilling to be baited into a false debate about budgets that put all the responsibility on hard-working families, more than 500 Illinoisans joined together to launch Make Wall Street Pay Illinois on Thursday.

In the face of Illinois' $6 billion budget deficit, the...

Imagine your foreclosure problems began the month after you paid off your mortgage. That despite multiple calls and visits to branches of JP Morgan Chase, you couldn't get the bank to acknowledge they had already received all the money you owed them. You called the bank month after month, multiple...

Mike McCarthy, Keya Alvarez, and Ken Kelly. Not exactly household names, but they are among the homeowners from 13 states who traveled to Des Moines today to meet with Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller. Miller is leading the 50-state investigation into the big bank foreclosure scandal. At stake in the...

A generation ago, as children, many of us proudly took our roll of quarters to the neighborhood bank, and opened our first savings account, because we trusted the bank. We believed it was the safest and most reliable place for our money. Fast-forward to today and we can't be sure...

To rebuild the economy and bring hope back to tens of millions of Americans we need the big banks to do their part to fix what they broke. This is the focus of Round Two in our fight to keep the banks honest.

The starting bell for round 2...

Hundreds of people from communities across the country visited the Chevy Chase home of Bank of America's Deputy General Counsel, Gregory Baer, last week.

On Wednesday, Fortunate Magazine's Nina Easton, who lives across the street from Baer, wrote in her column that going to Baer's...

Today, thousands of everyday people came to Washington DC for a Shutdown of K Street. The message was simple: Reclaim our democracy and hold Wall Street accountable.

Big bank CEOs make their most lucrative moves not from their offices on Wall Street but from their DC addresses on K Street and Capitol Hill.

A new report by Campaign for America's Future and the Public Accountability Initiative, shows things are...

If you ever doubted that we are all in this together, the financial crisis surely dashed all denial on this front.

Everyone has been impacted by the reckless greed and abuse of the big banks. Whether it be the ongoing tidal wave of foreclosures, cresting unemployment, bank-owned properties littering...

So, a Showdown in the Senate is officially on. The question is, who's winning? Yesterday Republicans succeeded in blocking a vote to begin debate on a Wall Street reform bill. Democrats lost a vote, but may have won in doing so. Meanwhile the American people are still facing a tidal...