Citizen Views on Social Security

8/17/2010 By Joe Goldman, AmericaSpeaks Last week marked the 75th anniversary of our nation’s Social Security system.

Tough Choices on Defense Spending

8/12/2010 By Dianna Dauber, AmericaSpeaks Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposed on Monday to close a military command, restrict the use of outside contractors and reduce the number of generals and admirals across [...]

Two under 24 on the National Town Meeting

8/10/2010 By Mary Lauran Hall, AmericaSpeaks Seventeen to twenty-four year-olds are an important demographic for any conversation about our fiscal future. Apart from representing the future of American leadership, these are the people who [...]

Reaching the Ear of the President and the Congress

8/6/2010 Edward J. Mazur served as Controller of the Office of Federal Financial Management, within the Office of Management and Budget, under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Cross-posted from Advancing Government [...]

Many Ways to Stay Involved

8/4/2010 By Joe Goldman, AmericaSpeaks AmericaSpeaks will ensure that the priorities expressed at the June 26 National Town Meeting are heard by leaders in Washington. Already, we have briefed dozens of members of Congress [...]

Finding Common Ground: Release of Interim Report

7/27/2010 By Joe Goldman, Vice President of Citizen Engagement, AmericaSpeaks Today, AmericaSpeaks released its second round of analysis from the June 26 National Town Meeting. Please take a look at the narrative report, slide [...]

What Does It Take to Have a Civil Conversation These Days?

7/26/2010 By Carolyn Lukensmeyer, President, AmericaSpeaks. Cross-posted from Huffington Post.

National Town Meeting in the Media

7/21/2010 By Dianna Dauber, AmericaSpeaks The media plays an important role in our democracy — informing the public and shaping how issues are perceived. The June 26th National Town Meeting generated significant media interest. [...]

Share Your Story by Writing a Letter to the Editor

7/13/2010 Thousands of us participated in the National Town Meeting, hundreds of others were involved in many different ways. Let’s share with the rest of the nation a story about how people from [...]

Stories from the National Town Meeting

7/9/2010 By Dianna Dauber, AmericaSpeaks About 3,500 Americans  participated in AmericaSpeaks: Our Budget, Our Economy two weeks ago.  Since then we have been flooded with stories from people across the country who were thankful [...]