Our message, which parallels the voices ringing out this year in the streets of Madison, Lansing, Columbus, and other embattled cities, is America's workers built this country, and we're going to take it back.
Our message, which parallels the voices ringing out this year in the streets of Madison, Lansing, Columbus, and other embattled cities, is America's workers built this country, and we're going to take it back.
I ask you to think long and hard about what the future of California -- and our nation -- will look like if our public schools go down in flames.
In lean years like this one, non-baselined human service programs bear the brunt of heated political fights between our mayor and city council and are in deep jeopardy.
In 1984, Mario Cuomo rejected tax cuts for the wealthy and programs that make the rich richer. My question is: when did you reject your father's philosophy and become a Tea Party Republican?
Over Memorial Day Weekend, while most people were relaxing, Henry Schwaller was facing the reality of the assault on the arts in the United States. Th...
Who is ringing the alarm on Medicaid in a way that will make Congress pay attention?
The unemployed are politically invisible. They don't make major campaign donations. They don't lobby Congress. There's no National Association of Unemployed People. This is why neither party seems to care that we're heading back towards a double-dip recession.
Funding anti-hunger programs is an investment in our future. It saves money in health care costs and improves children's performance in school. It is also the moral and ethical thing for Congress to do.
Corporations are allowed to not only avoid paying their fair share to participate in society, but also to spend millions lobbying our leaders to continue avoiding their obligation.
The last time the Republicans played this game, with Newt Gingrich driving them to a collision, the result was that they were simply crushed, like a compact car trying to play chicken with a truck on a one-lane bridge.
Over 2,500 prisoners are serving juvenile life without parole in America. They were convicted at age 15, 16, 17, 18 -- and they will die in prison regardless of how well they live their lives while incarcerated.
A Tea Party group known as FreedomWorks has provided new GOP congressmen and women with talking points that will help them survive budget-focused town hall meetings which have recently been very confrontational for conservatives.
These cuts are not solutions to our budget crises, nor will they mend our broken food system. Rather, they are ideological prescriptions that will do nothing but further enrich corporate agribusiness.
The Pennsylvania Conservation Corps and career building jobs for Pennsylvania's youth are on the chopping block. The time is now to speak up on their behalf.
We understand Congress is addicted to the military dollars spent in every Congressional district, but an economy built on death and destruction does not create a thriving community.
It seems obvious to many of us that support for higher education is essential to meeting the challenges we face as a nation and to making sure that we are equipped to embrace rather than shrink from change.
HuffPost's Alex Wagner appeared Wednesday on MSNBC to discuss ongoing budget negotiations as well as other topics. Addressing the issue of potential ...
I've been pretty aghast to hear claims that large cuts would immediately generate job growth when the opposite is almost surely the case. You can make this a lot more complicated, but when you're as far below capacity as we are it's really quite simple arithmetic.
We're at a crossroads. We haven't closed California's budget gap, and we haven't addressed the pattern of demanding that our most vulnerable Californians shoulder the lion's share of budget cuts.
In exchange for getting support for Planned Parenthood from the Republicans, the Democrats were more than ready to betray the poor people they claim to represent.
We cannot let political pendulum swings prevent us from protecting children and ensuring they have a future. That's where true prosperity will come from.