Below are the initial signers. (Signers endorse as individuals.)
Roger Hickey
Roger Hickey is co-director and co-founder of the Campaign for America’s Future and the Institute for America’s Future. Over the history of CAF, he has helped lead major efforts to protect and expand the U.S. social insurance system and advance the interests of American labor. He also was a founder and communications director of the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank that looks at economics from the point of view of working Americans, as well as a founder of the Public Media Center in San Francisco, which helps advocacy organizations come up with media campaigns that will successfully effect social change. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Hickey began his career in the 1960s as an organizer for the Virginia Civil Rights Committee.
Roger Hickey
Co-Director, Campaign for America’s Future
Dr. Janet Dewart Bell
Janet Dewart Bell is a social justice activist with a doctorate in leadership and change from Antioch University. She founded the Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society at NYU Law School, and has been a key strategist and senior executive at national organizations including The Opportunity Agenda, PolicyLink, the National Urban League, the National Committee on Household Employment, and NPR. She recently authored Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement and Blackbirds Singing: Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century.
Dr. Janet Dewart Bell
Activist, Scholar, and Author, Blackbirds Singing: Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
Robert Borosage
Robert L. Borosage is a leading progressive writer, activist, and co-founder of a range of progressive organizations including the Campaign for America’s Future, ProgressiveMajority, and ProgressiveCongress.org. He guided the Institute for Policy Studies for nearly a decade, and served as issues director for the Jesse Jackson 1988 presidential campaign. A contributing editor of The Nation, Borosage’s articles have been published by Reuters, the Huffington Post, Progressive Breakfast, the Washington Post and the New York Times.
Robert Borosage
Co-Director, Campaign for America’s Future
Larry Cohen
Larry Cohen is the chairman of Our Revolution, which — formed by Bernie Sanders — is leading the fight to transform American politics to make our political and economic systems responsive to working families. He is former President of the Communication Workers of America, representing 700,000 workers in Canada and the United States. A former adviser to Senator Sen. Sanders, Cohen is also vice-chair of the DNC’s Unity Reform Commission, where he led the party’s recent superdelegate reform. On the global scene, Cohen has also worked to strengthen the effectiveness and solidarity of the international labor movement. He expanded alliances with CWA’s counterpart unions in Latin America, Europe and Asia, and was elected president of the 2.5 million-worker Union Network International Telecom Sector in 2001, serving until 2007. As president, he built alliances and support for telecom workers around the world, including in Mexico, Taiwan, South Africa, Germany and other countries.
Larry Cohen
Former President, CWA; Board Chair, Our Revolution
William Arnone
Former CEO, National Academy of Social Insurance
Frank Clemente
Former Director, Americans for Tax Fairness
Jeff Faux
Jeff Faux founded the Economic Policy Institute in 1986, and made it into the country’s leading think tank on the political and economic issues that face working Americans. In 2003, he stepped down as EPI’s president, and is now the Institute’s Distinguished Fellow. Faux has studied, taught and published on a wide variety of economic and political issues from the global economy to neighborhood community development, from monetary policy to political strategy. He is the author or co-author of six books, the latest being, The Servant Economy: Where America’s Elite is Sending the Middle Class.
Faux worked as an economist in the Departments of State, Labor and Commerce, a manager in the finance industry, a blueberry farmer, and a member of a municipal planning board in the State of Maine. He’s been an advisor to governments, trade unions, businesses, political campaigns, and community organizations. He’s lectured in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, sits on the boards of several of non-profit institutions and magazines, has written articles for numerous newspapers, magazines and journals, has testified before Congress, and has appeared many times on television and radio.
Jeff Faux
Founder, Economic Policy Institute
Karen Nussbaum
Karen Nussbaum, the founding director of Working America and the Working America Education Fund, has been fighting for the rights of working people for more than four decades. She was a founder and director of 9to5, the National Association of Working Women and president of District 925, SEIU. Karen served as the director of the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau during the first Clinton Administration, the highest seat in the federal government devoted to women’s issues. Prior to taking on the leadership of Working America, Karen served as a special assistant to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. She is the author, with Sweeney, of the book Solutions for the New Workforce, and with Ellen Cassedy, of the book 9to5.
Karen Nussbaum
Founding Director, Working America
Robert Pollin
Robert Pollin is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is also the founder and President of PEAR (Pollin Energy and Retrofits), an Amherst, MA-based green energy company operating throughout the United States. He has worked recently as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Energy, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and numerous non-governmental organizations in several countries on various aspects of building high-employment green economies. He has also directed projects on employment creation and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa for the United Nations Development Program, and has worked with many U.S. non-governmental organizations on creating living wage statutes at both the statewide and municipal levels. He is presently a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Commission project on Financialization, Economy, Society, and Sustainable Development (FESSUD). He was selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the “100 Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.”
Robert Pollin
Co-Director, Political Economy Research Institute; Economics Professor, UMass
Will Rice
Former staffer, Americans for Tax Fairness
Judy Scott
Legal Advisor, Labor Union
Don Stillman
Former Director of Government and International Affairs, UAW