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Tomatoes are just the beginning. As the U.S. imports more of its food from overseas, it is reducing its ability to ensure the safety and quality of these foreign foods. Conflicting government agency oversight, inefficient food inspections, and lax food safety standards in exporting countries has compromised the safety of American food imports. more »

Economists and politicians debate whether or not we’re technically in a recession, but most Americans feel we’ve been in a recession for years.

The Campaign for America’s Future has designed "The Stress Test" to show how the economy affects working families. By assessing the condition of the job market, housing, health care, and household costs on a state-by-state basis over time, "The Stress Test" illustrates the troubles families face. Use this report to talk about the real impact of conservative policies and need for a new, progressive economic strategy.

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Based on polling from a variety of sources, this report concludes that the conservative ideology is losing favor with the American public and that progressive approaches on such issues as the social safety net, government regulation and foreign policy are increasingly popular. more »

The 2008 election has the potential to be not simply one of change, as conventional wisdom suggests, but of sea-change—an election that marks the end of the conservative era that has dominated our politics for the past three decades.

"Progressives Rising—2008: A Sea-Change Election" details the signs of the emergence of that era, and cautions that progressives will not only have to continue to drive the debate in the election season, but will also have to define, expand and claim the mandate after the election.

Also see:

• "The Decline of Conservatism," by Stan Greenberg
• "Conservatism is Dying," by Eric Lotke

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On Tuesday, December 18, 2007, conservatives in the U.S. Senate set a modern-day record for obstruction. They forced the 62nd cloture vote to move beyond a filibuster. The previous record was 61 cloture votes, reached during the 107th Congress in 2002. The conservatives of 2007 surpassed that mark, in only the first session of the 110th. more »

For anyone interested in where the American public really stands on the big issues that distinguish progressives from conservatives-including the issues at the forefront of today’s political debates – “The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America Is a Myth” offers hard facts and analysis based on decades of data from some of the nation’s most respected and nonpartisan public opinion researchers. This is the evidence that political leaders have a mandate to pursue bold, progressive policies. more »

One year ago, the people of New Orleans were hit by a devastating storm, forced to flee by failing levees, and abandoned, before the shocked eyes of the world, by a government unable or unwilling to provide effective relief. more »

A lot of people have been asking us about the above, and we’ve been hesitant to weigh in. The
first task in New Orleans and other devastated areas is to get the water out and the electricity on,
bury the dead, and take care of the living. That’s not done yet, and it seems sort of obscene to
speculate on reconstruction tasks before it is. I’m also not an expert on the physical condition of
the region. I don’t know, for example, how much of the flooded housing stock can be preserved
from mold and rot, or what effort has been made to get salvageable structures cleaned out before
decay takes them. I assume next to none in the poorer neighborhoods, but don’t even know that
for certain. more »

One year after Hurricane Katrina, every facet of life on the Gulf Coast is marred by remnants of
Hurricane Katrina and suffers from a response marked by unfulfilled promises, cronyism, waste,
fraud, and abuse. This report shows how the government failed its people.

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Private contractors are the second largest army in Iraq. Private contractors have been implicated in needless deaths, billion dollar cost overruns and torture at Abu Ghraib, but so far nobody has been held accountable. more »