For the first time since the Great Depression, America is experiencing a profound and disturbing trifecta: 1) 20,000 lost jobs in April (260,000 total so far in 2008); 2) unprecedented home foreclosure rates along with harsh drops in home values; and 3) skyrocketing retail prices for food,...

U.S. Senator John McCain has said some pretty crazy things on the campaign trail this year. He's said our troops should stay in Iraq for another hundred years. He's said many Americans who get health insurance from their employers should pay higher taxes. He said the economy was doing well...

Despite being outspent three to one by "the highest political spender" in the history of Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton's important victory in Pennsylvania yesterday is a clear sign that voters want this unprecedented presidential campaign to go on a little longer. Barack Obama has not closed the deal, and has now...

Apparently, some people think it's big news that Robert Reich has decided to publicly endorse Barack Obama. We shouldn't be surprised. For months now, Reich has been criticizing Hillary Clinton on his blog and elsewhere, distorting her policies and her positions. He's criticized Senator Clinton's solutions on the foreclosure...

Today, on the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., thousands of Americans have traveled to Memphis to commemorate Dr. King's important work for civil rights and economic justice. Among those who gathered at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Hotel was Republican...

Thanks to the collapse of the subprime housing industry, millions of families stand at risk of losing their homes, in large measure because of unscrupulous lending policies by some of the biggest corporate hucksters this country has seen since the dawn of the Great Depression. Now, the nation's housing...

Leave it to conservative FOX News' Washington, D.C. managing editor Britt Hume to raise the specter of John McCain's age as an issue in the 2008 election. Appearing on this week's Fox News Sunday program, Hume suggested McCain's advanced age was responsible for the Arizona senator's factually incorrect remark...

In today's Wall Street Journal, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich offers some new and unneeded advice to the Democratic Party. He says our presidential nominee, whichever is selected, will be "tainted" following a "divisive and delegitimatized" contest. Newt doesn't want delegates elected by voters in Florida and Michigan to...

If you turned on a TV in the days before the voting began in the Super Tuesday states, you would have thought that Barack Obama was headed for a landslide. On every cable news channel, and on the nightly network news, as well, there were reports of crowds gathering around...

There has been extensive coverage in the mainstream media and blogosphere about the health care proposals of Senators Clinton and Obama. This issue is important to me because I am a passionate advocate of health care for all and because the way the candidates deal with it points to a...

Like all good Democrats, I was proud of last night's candidate debate in Los Angeles. It was substantive and about the issues and both candidates showed why it is so important that Democrats take back the White House for America's working families. While last night's event was between Senators Clinton...

We learn in the January 31st New York Times that President Bush is prepared to slash funding for hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, emergency medical services and home care providers in the new budget he will send to Congress next week. His proposal represents another volley in the Republican Right's...

As you may know, both Michigan and Florida scheduled their primaries in January. They were told by the powers that be in Washington that the dates chosen were too early. They were informed that the national party did not want primaries scheduled anywhere except New Hampshire and South Carolina prior...

They said it was over. They said she couldn't come back. They said she was done. But the pundits and the pollsters and the naysayers got it wrong, and Senator Clinton and all of her dedicated supporters got it right! This race has just begun.

Senator Clinton's victory in New...

Tom Edsall claims that several organizations, including AFSCME, are creating an "anti-Obama" organization. AFSCME is not about the business of swift-boating any Democratic candidate. We will not be party to any kind of effort of this type. Our campaign is about promoting Hillary Clinton - not tearing down any...

If you're following the politics of the Iowa Democratic caucus contest, you're familiar with the dust-up surrounding Barack Obama's health care plan, AFSCME's critique of it, his labeling of union's as "special interests" (as I read in a recent Paul Krugman column), the anti-government rhetoric the Senator has...

The allies of President Bush who back his veto of bipartisan legislation to provide health coverage to children in low-income families took the politics of personal destruction to a new low this week. Front page stories in the Baltimore Sun and New York Times tell the...

In the next week AFSCME, Americans United for Change, USAction and a consortium of groups including the AFL-CIO, SEIU, True Majority, and MoveOn are coming together to hold more than 200 events all across the nation focusing on SCHIP, the health care program...

Six years ago today, as the world watched in horror, terrorists struck and changed our lives forever. Dastardly attacks, unprovoked and unexpected, brought the world to a stop. At the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, and in the fields outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the lives of nearly 3,000 men, women...

Labor Day is a time to reflect on the valuable contributions working people have made to our nation. Working men and women are the bedrock of our economy, and they have been at the heart of nearly every movement for social justice and civil rights in America. It is fitting,...