“These are the benefits that are needed to feed families. Any week that they don’t get these benefits is harmful to people.”read more

Congress should not have gone on recess without extending unemployment benefits. Not only should those benefits be extended; they also should be increased.read more

Bunning's obstructionist stand epitomizes Republican politics: cruel and out of touch—totally unconcerned about people's suffering.read more

Reid and Obama talk about the unemployed. But those words amount to just crocodile tears since they have the power to do something about this but choose not to do so.read more

Here in Wisconsin, the first state to enact unemployment insurance, the headlines blare that more than 100,000 Wisconsinites could lose their unemployment benefits by the end of April.read more

If there is one thing that will start turning things around, it's pressure from Americans who are seeing their jobs dry up.read more

The new state-by-state unemployment figures are shocking. We need more deficit spending to pull us out of this recession.read more

(This is a series of excerpts from The Progressive magazine in the 1930s that are especially relevant today. You can find other delectable items in the current issue of The Progressive, which commemorates the magazine’s 100th anniversary.)read more

Ben Bernanke should hold the line against the inflation hawks on the Fed’s board.read more