“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

Poverty in America

Robert Reich Explains the Economy

Tea Party Pubic Service Announcement

February 15, 2008

The Middle Is Falling Out of the Economy

What has happened that has so changed the economic life of the American people? And what changes in public policy can our government undertake to remedy the fact that so many Americans do believe that our best days may be behind us?

Read Harold Meyerson's* recent testimony ( as published on the blog of the American Prospect Magazine) before the Labor Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, addressing the long term state of the economy, rising inequality, the dearth of good jobs in the middle of the economy, and America's changing role in the world economy.

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_middle_is_falling_out_of_the_economy

*Harold Meyerson is executive editor of The American Prospect and a columnist for the Washington Post.

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