Editors' Blog

Michele Bachman and the Tea Party Caucus Targets Veterans

Check out this post from Veterans for Common Sense:

Demand Congress extend unemployment benefits

With the Lame Duck session beginning, the fight for jobs, extending unemployment benefits and protecting Social Security has begun.

Push House to consider COLA adjustment on Social Security bennies

I saw this statement from the NCPSSM on news this week that House Dems are considering a bill that would link Social Security benefit increases to COLA. Needs some push I think:

Don't give Republicans the chance to go after Social Security

Republican congressional candidates are itching to pull the trigger on Social Security should they gain power, a fact that makes our participation in these elections as important as ever.

Obama expands benefits for same-sex federal workers

The following is from National Organization for Women: