The Obama team has asked Americans to tweet their support for extending middle class tax cuts in the fiscal cliff negotiations.

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AlterNet writer Steven Rosenfeld reports on a UCLA conference, during which legal scholars discussed the best ways to get money out of politics.

A group of Occupy activists are raising money to purchase distressed debt and cancel it in a new initiative called the Rolling Jubilee.

Watch how Occupy Sandy and other community organizations are helping some of New York's most vulnerable residents in the wake of the superstorm.

The former Reagan and Bush administration staffer and author of Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action says Republicans need to bend on tax increases.

The public policy expert and former labor secretary says we can't tackle the budget deficit until the economy is back on track.

The author writes the fiscal cliff is a unique opportunity to solve three of the most pressing problems facing our country.

The CBPP economist wants to extend earned income and child tax credits, as well as the Bush-era tax credits.

Kramer, a senior research analyst at the National Priorities Project, hopes that politicians take use the financial cliff as an imperative to do some long-term budgetary planning.