NOW commends the Democratic members of the House of Representatives for electing Nancy Pelosi as their next minority leader. Having proven herself a strong and effective Speaker of the House, we expect Pelosi to continue serving the interests of women as minority leader.
Millions of women will be pushed into poverty and out of the middle class if preliminary recommendations for cutting Social Security benefits made by the National Commission for Fiscal Responsibility and Reform are adopted, says NOW President Terry O’Neill.
Bob Herbert writes in The New York Times: “The clearest explanation yet of the forces that converged over the past three decades or so to undermine the economic well-being of ordinary Americans is contained in the new book, ‘Winner-Take-All Politics: How…
There is an “enthusiasm gap” among voters, with conservatives feeling more energized and excited about voting–and more likely to talk to pollsters.
Harold Meyerson writes on the op-ed pages of The Washington Post: “The Tea Partyers are right to be wary of income redistribution, but if they had even the slightest openness to empiricism, they’d see that the redistribution of the past 30 years has all…