by MCDC | Jan 19, 2014 | Action Alerts, Economy, Employment, Video
Tell your Representative to oppose H.R. 3830 “the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act of 2014,” legislation to grant “Fast Track” authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP has been negotiated by corporate insiders...
by MCDC | Jan 15, 2014 | Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Education, Employment, Environment, Health Care
“A MOVEMENT, not a Moment!” If you believe that an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, if you understand that what happens in North Carolina has implications for the future of the nation, if you believe that we can build a moral movement together to...
by MCDC | Jan 8, 2014 | Economy, Employment, Minimum Wage
By Susie Madrak House Republican leaders sent a memo this week to the entire GOP conference with talking points designed to help rank-and-file Republicans show compassion for the unemployed and explain the Republican position on unemployment benefits. In the memo,...
by MCDC | Jan 8, 2014 | Civil Rights, Employment, History, Minimum Wage, Sequester
BY IGOR VOLSKY It has been 50 years since Lyndon Johnson first declared that the nation could, “for the first time in our history,” conquer and win a war on poverty, pledging a “total commitment by this President, and this Congress, and this nation, to pursue victory...
by MCDC | Jan 4, 2014 | Employment, Ethics, Health Care, History, Issues, Minimum Wage, Sequester, Social Security, Video
extracts from Wikipedia and PoliticsUSA The Second Bill of Rights was a list of rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. In his address Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize, and should...
