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ACTION: How did your Senator vote on the Blunt Amendment?
The Blunt Amendment failed by a vote of 51-48 in the Senate thanks to you and thousands of others who spoke out. Did your Senators vote to put your boss in control of your health
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Does your Senator support the ‘Buffett Rule’? Ask them to cosponsor!
Nearly 40,000 of us have already signed on to support Sen. Whitehouse and his bill to tax the super-rich. And we’ll be delivering all your signatures to the Senate in-person. Right now, Sen. Whitehouse’s “Buffett
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Sign here to support the ‘Buffett Rule’
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is introducing the “Pay A Fair Share Act” today in the Senate. This bill would make it so millionaires and billionaires paying lower tax rates than the middle class would have
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Tell Congress: Extend unemployment insurance now
The GOP-led House is working against the 99% by proposing “reforms” to unemployment insurance that would: Make it harder for ordinary Americans who lose their jobs to access benefits; Subject workers to mandatory drug
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Cut Pentagon Spending NOW!
After years of endless war, President Obama has withdrawn our troops from Iraq and indicated that the days of obsolete, Cold War thinking are over. Obama’s speech last week was a major step towards
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Jobs For The 99%
Thousands of 99% protesters are in Washington, D.C. this week to Take Back the Capitol. Yesterday we swarmed congressional offices all over Capitol Hill. Hundreds of jobless workers and their supporters told powerful stories of
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NEW Report: Hardly Working: Stories From Un- and Under-employed Americans
Cross-posted from USAction’s C3 sister organization - USAction Education Fund. For the full PDF of Hardly Working, click here. Introduction At minimum, 14 million Americans are unemployed. At least 26 million are un- or
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NEW REPORT: Fool Me Twice? Corporations Pay Congress to Rip Off Taxpayers Again
November 2011 (Download full report) Executive Summary With the deadline looming for the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or “supercommittee,” major corporations have argued for the second tax holiday in a decade through
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Maine Defends Voting Rights: “YES to fairness and democracy.”
A HUGE congratulations to USAction affiliate Maine People’s Alliance for their instrumental role in saving same day voter registration for EVERYONE in Maine. MPA worked with 1000′s of volunteers and over 23 partner organizations as
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