Drum Major Institute: 2006 Annual Report

8/6/2019 Drum Major Institute: 2006 Annual Report

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/drum-major-institute-2006-annual-report 1/18



110 East 59th Street, 28th Floor

New York, New York 10022drummajorinstitute.orgDesign: Randi Hazan

Photography: Laurent Alfieri, Pa

DMI

releases

“Fighting for NewYork’s Middle Class:

The American Dream

in the Empire State”

scorecard of NYS

legislators,

March

Promote

“Principles for

Immigration Po

to Strengthen a

Expand Americ

Middle Class”

Funded byDemocracy

Alliance

DMI

Marketplace

of Ideas in

2006

RepodisseminYoung E

Officials Neprogram o

People

DMIhosts blogger

roundtable with Markosof DailyKos.com at

Annual Benefit

DMI appearson radio from Salt Lake

City, Utah to Finger Lakesregion, New York, talkingabout shared economicinterest in progressive

immigrationpolicy

DMI releases

“Congress at the

Midterm: Their Middle

Class Record,” our

third annualscorecard,

June

Double

staff and

operating

budgetDMI is

New YorkCity’s premieregathering placefor progressives

leaders

DMIhosts “Cities?

What Cities?” withMayor Bryon Brown

of Buffalo,March

DMI Releases“DMI on the 2006

State of the Union”—rapid-response

analysis of the impactof the President’s

proposalson the middle class,

January

Welcome newboard members –

Randi Weingarten ofhe United Federation

of Teachers andMorris Pearl

DMIhosts “Campaign

‘06: The Year of theHostile Takeover?”with David Sirota,

May

Funded byOpen Society

Institute

DMI honorsWynton Marsalis,Anna Burger, andMarkos Moulitsasat Annual Benefit,

June

DMI’sExecutive Director

has bi-monthlycolumn in theNew York Daily

News

Scott Shields,MyDD.com: “To me, this

is brilliant. What better wayto get relevant informationto people looking up theirstate representatives than

a Google AdWordscampaign?”

“An outrageouslycogent, easy-to-read,

trenchant piece of analysis.Wow. And the google pop-upgrade is a brilliant stroke.Who ARE you guys?” PeterSiderski, elected official,

Westchester County,New York.

“State

politics clickswith ‘Googling’”in Albany Times

Union

PioneerGoogle Ad word

campaignin March

Makinprescripdrugs maffordaDecem

Holdingcorporations

accountable forsubsidies,September

Makingbig corporations

pay their fair share ofhealth care costs,

May

Christine Quinn,Speaker of New York

City Council,on panel

Expandingaccess to universalpre-kindergarten,

October

Middle-classsqueeze part of

winning Democraticmessage in midterm

elections

DMI in Reuters: “Democrats Won,but Did the Middle

Class?”

Majorunions distribute

scorecards to theirpolitical directors

nationally

CongressionalScorecard Google

Ads viewed 24

million times

LaunchGoogle Adword

campaign advertising

grade of each memberof Congress

Allincumbents

who fail in midtermelections with one

exception received Fon DMI scorecard

“It’s timefor Voters to be

Frank with Don” inThe Alaska Report on

Rep. Don Young,who got F on

scorecard

Senator John Kerryhighlights

A grade in press

release

“I took theadvice of Susan Brennan

of Sayre and looked up the votingrecord of my U.S. House representative,

John R. Kuhl. Not surprisingly, regarding thesame seven bills used to rate performancerelating to the middle class vs. the rich,

he, too, voted against all seven bills andalso was rated "F" (0 percent) by the Drum

Major Institute.” Kurt Bishoff, Letterto the editor, New Jersey

Star Gazette


http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/drum-major-institute-2006-annual-report 3/18IMPACT 200

On PBS,Air America,New York Times ,TomPaine.com totalk about 10thanniversary ofwelfare reform

DMI Fellows

program in seco

full year, inserti

voices of grassro

activists into th

public policy

conversation

“To this day,the best set of

rinciples I’ve read foraling with immigratione Drum Major Institute’sddle class framework,”ra Klein, The American

Prospect

Writeopen letter to

Lou Dobbs aboutinadequateimmigration

analysis

DMI inDaily News, NPR’s

On the Media on Lou Dobbs

Funded byHorace Hagedorn

Foundation to applyshared economic

interest framework toLong Island

DMIImmigration

Op-Eds in Chicago Sun Times , New York

Newsday ,TomPaine.com

DMI

partnering withNebraska Appleseed touse DMI immigration

framework in redstate America

DMIappears on CNN’s

Lou Dobbs Tonight

Thousandsof visitors

daily

Launch Senior

Fellowship in Civil

Justice, protecting

Americans’ accessto the courts

Marketplaceon live archive

includes podcasts,video downloadsand transcipts

DMI presentsat Personal

Democracy Forumon Google Ad Word

campaign

The Nation reads Mark

Winston Griffith’s poston food injustice and

asks for article forprint edition

LaunchNetroots Advisory

Council (NAC) with15 blogger/online

strategists inOctober

DMIblogread by

thousandsdaily

DMIfellows blog

daily

Engage NAC inconversation about

immigrationreform so they can

blog about theissue

Traffic to

DMI’s websites

triples from

2005-2006

Planningfunded

by Open Society

Institute

Partnersinclude Young

People For, CampusProgress, Roosevelt

Institution

Progressive Majorityhead Gloria Totten:

“Progressives at all levelsof government require staff members

that are superbly trained, articulate andready to fight for good progressive policy.

By introducing college students to thepolicy arena and giving them the skillsthey need to be effective advocates, the

Drum Major Institute will ensure thatthe next generation of progressive

leadership is waiting in

the wings.”

Maureen Lpresents at co

with John Edas keyno

Maureen Laneruns Welfare Rights

Initiative organizing womeimpacted by welfare policat Hunter College. She wa

in first graduating

class of WRI

Our FellowAndrew Friedman

on Univision Radio asElection Day monitoron efforts to restrict

immigrantvoting

Adrianne Shropwrites “ValuCity Workers

AM New YoAugust

Markworks on deed theftlegislation through

his job at NeighborhoodEconomic Development

Advocacy Project

Deed theftlegislationpasses NewYork Statelegislature

MarkWinston Griffith

writes about deedtheft legislation on

DMIBlog

Daily News sees Zeke Edwards’

blog on quality of lifecrime arrests andasks Zeke to writeOp-Ed on the topic

00,000ds betweenarch andOctober

ManhattanBorough President

Scott Stringer says “[Becauseof DMI’s Google AdWordscampaign,] any legislator

who got a D or an F on middleclass issues is going to [be]

freak[ing] out.”

DMI FellowAdrianne Shropshire,

Director of JobsWith Justice,on the panel

Prescriptionug affordabilityp issue for newgressional House

leadership

Class ActionFairness Act analyzed

in Congress at the Midterm: Their Middle

Class Record

LaunchTortDeform.com:the Civil JusticeDefense Blog,

September

AmericanEnterprise

Institute andManhattan Institute

battling it out onTortDeform.com

Cyrus Duggeron Air America

talking about justicefor sick GroundZero workers

Fundedby Open SocietyInstitute to work

with local groups onincorporatingimmigration

advocacy in theirgrassroots

work

DMI launches

DMI Scholars to

train next generat

of public policy

staffers advanci

a progressive

agenda

RecruitCyrus Dugger,

NYU Law graduate,to serve as first

Fellow



DMI ResearchCreating well-researched,well-messaged tools to advanc

a progressive agenda.

“I have great admiration for the Institute and am a frequent visitor to your siteeven as the materials you send find an important place on my shelves.”

— BILL MOYERS

“The DMI study, released at the end of last year,

appears to be making inroads with immigrantand labor groups and may fundamentally changethe way many advocates see the issue.”

“What politician doesn’t love the midclass? Many more than you’d think,according to the Drum Major InstitutPublic Policy, a progressive think ta

co -sp o n so r ed b y:

BLACKPLANET.COM

CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA’S FUTURE

DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

THE FOUNDATION FOR ETHNIC UNDERSTANDING

MOVING IDEAS NETWORK

PR OGR ESSIVEMAJOR ITY

2003YEAR IN REVIEW

DRUMMAJOR INSTITUTE

FOR PUBLIC

POLICY

Acritical conversationaboutthe implications

of the profound demographic transformationnowunderwayinourc ity

JohnLogan

MumfordCenterforComparativeUrbanandRegionalResearch

JohnMollenkopf

CenterforUrbanResearchofCityUniversity’sGraduateCenter

&People Poliicsin America’sBig Ciies

featuring Maryland State Senator

GLORIA GARY LAWLAHOn her pioneering work to hold corporations accountable

for their fair share of employee health costs.



“If it isn’t read, it wasn’t written.” That’s DMI’s approach to

research. We don’t issue reports to see our name in print. We

view our research as a tool, and measure our success based on

how these tools are used to advance a progressive agenda.

Over the years, DMI has released over 15 reports, developing a

reputation for sharp analysis of the impact of public policy on

the current and aspiring middle class. We present progressive

solutions formulated to resonate with the vast majority of

Americans trying to achieve the American Dream. We were

pleased to see that the middle-class squeeze was a dominant theme

in the midterm elections, and even more pleased that our reportswere referenced throughout the year by press and policymakers.

On the night of, we released DMI on the 2006 State of the

Union, the only instantaneous analysis of President Bush’s State

of the Union Address. We provided analysis and statistics to

illustrate t he inadequacy of his proposals—like Health Savings

Accounts, an ambiguously defined American Competitiveness

Initiative, and the capping of medical malpractice awards–in

addressing the t rue struggles of America’s curren t and aspiring

middle class. We disseminated our instant analysis to thousands

before the sun came up, and provided commentary on radio

shows throughout the country the following day.

Before the issue catapulted to the forefront of the national

conversation, we brought our unique lens t o the immigration

debate. Principles for an Immigration Policy to Strengthen

and Expand the A merican Middle Class is the first report to

connect immigration to the larger conversation about America’s

squeezed middle class and those striving to attain their place in

it. We make the case, systematically, that progressive immigration

reform is in th e interest of hardworking Americans if it does two

things: 1) bolsters—not undermines—the critical contribution

that immigrants make to our economy as workers, entrepreneurs,

taxpayers and consumers; and 2) strengthen the r ights of

immigrants in the workplace in order to avoid a “race to the

bottom” that harms American workers. The status quo doesn’t

cut it, but neither do misguided proposals that create a permanent

class of exploited workers or drive thousands into the shadows

to compete in the underground economy.

The paper, released in December of 2005 and updated throughout

2006 as new legislation was introduced, has been used widely.

We’ve been asked to present our framework across the country,

from WT BQ in Orange County, New York t o CNN ’s Lou Dobbs

Tonight , from the Bangor Daily News to the A merican Prospect ,

from the National Immigration Forum to New York’s City Hall.

Not to mention candidates for office who have looked to our

analysis to develop their immigration platforms. T he Open Society

Institute and the Horace Hagedorn Foundation have since funded

us to further translate our framework into tools that can be used

by grassroots organizers nationally and on Long Island, the perfect

stage on which to examine the shared economic interest in

immigration reform.

DMI’s third-annual congressional scorecard, Congress at the

Midterm: Their 2005 Middle-Class Record, was our most

heavily-used to date. We took a close look at t he decisions made

by Congress, from creat ing new obstacles for families overcome

with debt trying to declare bankruptcy to a disastrous budget that

aimed to pay for t ax cuts benefiting the rich with dramatic cuts

to student loans and health programs for the poor. In vote after

vote, Congress disdained the concerns of working Americans

and opted instead to favor the already wealthy and powerful: a

surefire recipe for a shrinking middle class. A vast majority of

senators and representatives earned a grade of C or less.

Guided by our motto, DMI’s scorecard went beyond evaluating

legislators on a single issue, and instead allowed people to hold

their representatives accountable for their overall commitment to

the issues that matter most to working Americans. Congress at

the Midterm influenced

numerous campaigns and was

referenced widely in

publications ranging from the National Journal to the

A ppleton-Post Crescent (the

hometown paper of Appleton

Wisconsin) and in hundreds of blog posts. We launched an

unprecedented Google AdWord campaign so that any person with in

the United States who searched for a member of Congress on

Google would be instant ly informed of the grade that specific

elected official received on DMI’s scorecard. Our ads were viewed

24 million times, and many clicked through to our scorecard’s

easily accessible website.

Applying our successful approach to New York State, DMI released

Fighting for New York’s Middle Class: 2001 -2005 NY State

Legislative Scorecard in March as a tool to evaluate New York’sSenate and Assembly. While by no means naïve about Albany’s

severely dysfunctional legislative process, we believe that a thorough

examination of how their representatives voted on the issues most

important to them will help to remind New Yorkers why it matters

that we have an effective legislative process in the first place.

DMI’s research resonates beyond the policy-making community

into the heart of Amer ica and their kitchen-table concerns.

DMI Ad from Google Adwords campaign

On Congress at the Midterm...

“I've used the scorecard in at least 30 or 40 posts sincDMI started publishing it and I have explained it in depto Steny Hoyer, the Majority Leader, to countless membeof Congress and to various progressive challengers”—Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny.com

On Principles for an Immigration Policy...

“To this day, the best set of principles I’ve read fordealing with immigration is the Drum Major Institute’smiddle class framework, and I encourage [Paul]Krugman, and anyone interested in this debate, to give

them a read…the Drum Major Institute has done it!”—Ezra Klein, Writing Fellow, The American Prospect

On Fighting for New York’s Middle Class…

“An outrageously cogent, easy-to-read, trenchant pieceof analysis. Wow. And the google pop-up grade is abrilliant stroke. Who ARE you guys? This wasoutrageous... I have bookmarked you and am forwardinlinks to my large group of democratic friends. Knock msocks off.” —Peter Siderski, elected official, Westchester

County, New York

Praise for DMI’s research:

“When policy makers and experts acknowledge that education is an important step in

young people’s ability to achieve their own financial security, they’re right. Denyingthis same access to poor adults, who are primarily single mothers, does nothing to endpoverty and makes for cruel and counterproductive public policy.” —Maureen Lane



Marketplace of IdeasWelcome to the

In the Marketplace

of Ideas, we don’t just talk aboutproblems, we highlightthe policymakerswho successfullytackle them.

IDEAS WE BROUGHT TO MARKET:

Making Prescription Drugs

More Affordable

Making Pre-School Education Universal

Increasing Accountability forEconomic Development Subsidies

Strengthening the Labor Movement

Holding Corporations Accountablefor Their Fair Share of EmployeeHealth Costs

Leveraging Government to ProtectPeople from Corporate Malfeasance

Tackling Environmental InjusticeThrough Legislation

Reducing Recidivism ThroughRestorative Justice

Making Health Care Universal

Lowering the Cost of InsuranceThrough Increased Regulation

Confronting the Need for MassivSchool Construction

“Andrea Batista Schlesinger, executive director of the liberal Drum

Major Institute for Public Policy in New York, said the Democraticvictory proved to both parties that acknowledging Americans arestruggling economically is not a losing strategy.”

“More importantly, what the

entirely different kind of toradministrative mechanisms tquickly without having to fa



“The Drum Major Institute’s recent forum on increasing accountability anddeveloping better uses for economic development subsides with Minnesota StateSenator John Hottinger was both informative and enlightening. I found it so usefulto hear about the ideas of both colleagues in government and well-informedadvocates about effective legislation in other states, particularly Minnesota’sprogressive and far reaching bill.”

— NEW YORK STATE SENATOR LIZ KRUEGER

We are building the premier archive that demonstrates the

power of governmen t to play a positive role in people’s lives.

Today’s policymakers and influencers can tu rn to the

Marketplace archive for real ideas, not just rhetor ic.

In th e Marketplace, we choose not to daydream or complain. We

choose to give the microphone.

In the Marketplace, we don’t just talk about how great it would be

if children had universal access to pre-school. We give a

microphone to the policymaker who made it happen.

In the Marketplace, we don’t lament th e fact that the criminal

justice system is a revolving door, with far too many cycling in

and out of prison. We give the microphone to the Sheriff who

created a model of restorative justice that r educes the recidivism

of violent offenders by up to 80 percent.

In t he Marketplace, we don’t complain about t he skyrocketing

cost of prescription drugs, one of the biggest burdens on a

middle class already pushed to t he brin k by health care costs.

We give the microphone to the legislator who actually reduced

the pr ices of pharmaceuticals.

Over the last th ree years, the Marketplace has given th e

microphone to progressive policymakers addressing our nation’s

most critical challenges, from holding corporations accountable

for the public subsidies they receive to environmental in justice

to out-of-control insurance costs. We look forward to expanding

the series to provide more ideas to address the most pressing

problems we face.

In the Marketplace, you’ll find yourself in good company. Taking

advantage of our home in New York City, we engage New York’s

incredible progressive leadership in each of our discussions. New

York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn , Representative Jerry

Nadler, The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel, State Senator

Eric Schneiderman, and Reverend James Forbes all know that in

the Marketplace they will find the ideas about how to make fair

and effective public policy.

In th e Marketplace, community organizers and business leaders

connect, govern ment staffers find new ideas to bring to their

bosses, and bloggers find themselves seated next to aspiring

elected officials.

Our events are professionally recorded for television broadcastand viewin g on our Web Site. You can watch our conversat ions

on YouTube. You can download them to your Ipod. You can

read the transcripts, which we send t o thousands of policy

makers and influencers around the country.

The Marketplace is available to anyone at anytime and

embodies DMI’s mission of generating the ideas that fuel the

progressive movement.

victims’ experience demonstrates is that an

cessary. What we actually need are new legal andimately injured Americans to receive compensationedural hurdles and burdens of proof.”—Cyrus Dugger

“One of the things I really like about Drum

Major is that it doesn’t really have as muchof a political agenda as it does an agenda tocome up with ideas that work.” —Melvyn Weiss



Next generationUsing the Internet to engage people ina conversation about the public policythat impacts their lives.

“Clearly, the power of the netroots changed electoral politics in 2006. Puttingthe power of the press in activists’ hands made candidates sit up and takenotice. Now, it’s time to use that power to help change policy for the good ofour society—and DMI is perfectly positioned to do just that.”

— TOM WATSON, DMI BOARD MEMBER AND CHAIR,NETROOTS ADVISORY COUNCIL

“City government cannot meet its obligation to keep New

Yorkers safe and provide effective services withoutbreaking down language barriers by providing translationand interpretation services.” —Andrew Friedman

“The offshoring of jobs has already wrea

an appalling toll on the job prospects awages of working New Yorkers.”—Amy T



The Internet changed politics in 2006, but DMI is using it

to change public policy.

We are committed to taking advantage of the power of the

Netroots, the collection of bloggers and online strategists who

are shifting the political paradigm into the 21st century. In 2006,

we accomplished a think tank first with t he launch of our

Netroots Advisory Council. We are taking lessons from them

about how to u se internet technology to best present our

research, and they are getting the kind of web-friendly,

substantive analyses from us that will enable them to tackle

legislation as well as they do legislators.

We are u sing the Internet t o find innovative ways to disseminate

our research. This year we launched a Google ad campaign to

correspond with the publication of our N ew York and

Congressional middle-class scorecards. We didn’t ask people to

find their w ay to us—we brought our work to them. So when

people searched for information about their members of

Congress, they found a DMI ad in the Sponsored Links section

with the grade of that member on our scorecard. People Googled

their representatives over 24 million times between June and

Election Day, and each time, they learned something meaningful

that t ranscended political propaganda. And we know that we

reached millions—literally—that we otherwise could not have.

Those who clicked through the DMI ad found a custom Web siteto lead them through the records of their legislators, complete

with voting records and analysis of the bills we graded them on.

The blogosphere responded with over 100 posts referencing our

scorecard, engaging thousands more in the conversation.

Our presence on the Internet is strong and growing. Unlike

most quick-hit political blogs, the DMIBlog is written by people

at the forefront of efforts to create fairer and more effective

public policy. We invite people and organizations whose work

should have a larger platform to guest blog for us, like Amber

Sparks of Grocery Workers Un ited, Heather Boushey of the

Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, and Omar Freilla of the

Green Worker Cooperatives. Several thousand visitors come to

the DMIBlog everyday to read thoughtful posts on topics from

court victories for day laborers to a reflection on how ur ban

development projects and the dialogue about them is impacted

by race and class.

This year we launched TortDeform.com: The Civil Justice

Defense Blog, to provide a much needed counterweight to the

tort “reform” movement. TortD eform.com has attr acted a

community of people and organizations involved in this struggle,

from Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen to the Center for Justice and

Democracy to Jordan Fogal, a woman living in Texas who lost

her h ome because her access to the courts has been whittled

away by tort “reform.” From daily analysis of the battles to

defend regular Americans’ access to the courts, to online battles

between progressives and t he Amer ican Enterpr ise Institute,

TortDeform.com is a leading venue for discussion on one of themost important issues before us.

On w w w.drummajorinstitute.org, you can access all of our

research with ease, as well as watch, read, or download our

Marketp lace of Ideas events to your iPod. We’ve been asked to

share our developing expertise in this area nationally, at

conferences including Personal Democracy Forum, DL21c, and

Yearly Kos.

We don’t see the web as a place to h ost a sta le Website and pdf’s

of our reports, but as the ideal platform on wh ich to shape the

public conversation and influence the direction of public policy.

So we try to create tools that are rigorous while also hard-hitting

and web-friendly so they can become viral on the In ternet and

take on a life of their own, engaging regular people and Internet

activists along the way.

Think tanks should not be insular organizations handing public

policy down, but instead should capitalize on the power of

people to weigh in on the policy that is supposed to serve them.

DMI believes that you change the conversation by changing whoparticipates in it—and the democratizing power of the web offers

an amazing forum for making the conversation about shaping

policy more inclusive, broad-based, and energized.

Think tan ks—boring? How 2005.

www.drummajorinstitute.org

www.dmiblog.com

“To this day, the best set of principles I’ve read for dealing with

immigration is the Drum Major Institute’s middle class framework,and I encourage [Paul] Krugman, and anyone interested in thisdebate, to give them a read.”

Gathering of the Blogger Host Committee at the 2006Annual Benefit honoring Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos.com.



DMI FellowsChanging policy by inserting crediblevoices, not professional pundits,into the public conversation.

“At our daily opinion journal, we turn to DMI Fellowsfrequently to get behind dry headlines and bring life andurgency to social policy issues. DMI Fellows have writtenfor TomPaine.com on immigration, the middle-classsqueeze, the civil legal system. DMI Fellows bring aunique perspective informed by both practice and policyon issues facing many Americans.”

—ALEXANDRA H. WALKERSENIOR EDITOR, TOMPAINE.COM

“Study after study shows that education is crucial for attaining economic security. Eighty-eight percent of women

receiving welfare who graduate from college move permanently out of poverty. Yet these regulations curtail educationalopportunities for many receiving welfare by piling on make-work demands without letting states count the longhours spent studying and going to school toward the work required to receive benefits.”—Maureen Lane



“Why is it that 2/3 of the time that Ifind out something new and insanethat society should know about, it’scoming from someone at DMI?”

—MATT SINGERCOMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, PROGRESSIVE STATES

EDITOR OF “LEFT IN THE WEST” BLOG

The DMI Fellows program inserts the voices of extraordinarycommunity-based advocates into the debate about the public

policy that governs our lives. In doing so, we bring something

too often missing from a conversation dominated by Ivory Tower

“experts” and professional pundits: credibility.

DMI’s Fellows are real people with real on-the-ground

experiences. They know what policy looks like when it succeeds,

and when it fails. Working with DMI’s communications and

research teams, the DMI Fellows take their perspectives to Op-

Ed pages, radio and airwaves, and, of course, the blogosphere.

They offer a perspective that someone who simply researches the

issue cannot. For example, 2006 is the ten-year ann iversary of

President Bill Clinton ’s histor ic “welfare reform.” Fellow

Maureen Lane has a unique analysis of the failures of welfarereform as a former recipient of public assistance and cur rent Co-

Director of the Welfare Rights Initiative at Hunter College,

which supports welfare recipients as they work toward a college

degree. Her thoughts were featured in The New York Times, on

TomPaine.com, on Air America, in a PBS special hosted by Amy

Goodman, an d at an Iowa College of Law’s conference on

welfare reform at wh ich John Edwards was the keynote speaker.

Their fellowship is often a complement to their day-time

organizing. In 2006, Fellow Mark Winston Griffith, who started

a community-based credit union in the Bedford-Stuyvesant

neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1990’s and who now serves as

Co-Director of the Neighborhood Economic Development

Advocacy Project, advocated for deed theft legislation to fight

predatory mortgages through his fellowship. His writing

complemented h is successful legislative efforts at NEDAP. Mark

was also asked by The Nation to report on the lack of access to

affordable healthy food in lower-income communities and has

published staunch indictments of financial injustice in the credit

card industr y.

Our Fellows are out there on issues driven by their daily

experiences. Zeke Edwards, former defense attorney for the

Bronx Defenders, argued that upstate voting districts, which

only exist because they count disenfranchised prisoners from

downstate among their population, drain the urban communities

that these prisoners come from of funding and political clout.

Andrew Freidman, co-director of Make the Road by Walking, a

non-profit that organizes commun ity members in Brooklyn and

Queens, wrote widely on the need for translation services for

people still in the process of learning English. Adrianne

Shropshire, head of New York Jobs with Justice, wrote on the

importance of valuing New York City’s workforce.

The DMI Fellows program will grow in 2007 with a fresh crop of

leaders from the frontlines. We are proud of this program, a

prime illustration of our commitment to challenging the way

think tan ks do business.

The work of DMI Fellows:

On Arrest to Arraignment:

As a public defender in the Bronx, I encounter people

during every arraignment shift who have been in jail for

over 24 hours, sometimes for over two days. While

arrestees wait to see a judge, they miss work or school,

fail to appear for job interviews, face childcare dilemmas,

and are often without vital medication. Even if the case is

resolved at arraignments (with a sentence of a fine, for

example), the actual punishment—losing a day’s pay, or

even employment—is far more severe. —Ezekiel Edwards

On Wage Abuses:

In late June, the community organization Make the Road by

Walking joined with a number of churches to launch a boycott

of a supermarket that fails to pay many of their workers any

base pay. Workers are usually afraid to stand up for themselves

because they don’t want to lose their jobs, and too few of

them are organized into labor unions that can give them

institutional power in the workplace. —Andrew Friedman

On Racial Prejudice in Financial Services:

As I was standing before a group of 200 homeowners

and homebuyers talking about the perils of predatory

lending, people were nodding their heads in recognition

and affirmation as I explained the aggressive, abusive and

often illegal tactics of high-cost lenders and scammers.

They may not have heard the terms “predatory lending”

or “high cost lending” before, but they sure knew what it

looked like. Most of the people in the room were people

of color. What made this workshop more significant is

that most were solidly middle class. There is indeed a

color line in America and nowhere is it more obvious than

in the area of financial services. —Mark Winston Griffith

On Access to Education as a Route out of Poverty:

The students I work with at Welfare Rights Initiative know

that hidden in the shadows of welfare to work programs

is the fact that women with children, who are able to find

some kind of job and move from welfare, still are not able

to lift themselves out of poverty, not by a long shot...

An important step toward bridging the gap is access to

education: Research shows that 88% of women who

attain a bachelor’s degree move to jobs with a living

wage and permanently out of poverty. —Maureen Lane

On the Transit Strike:

While viewed with suspicion by every broadcast and print

media outlet in New York City, Roger Toussaint’s framing

of his unions’ strike as a modern day civil rights action

was and is completely accurate. It was civil disobedience

of the highest order. It raised the question of how much

we do or do not value the work of the working class and

the degree to which many New Yorker’s have accepted

the notion that we are undeserving, have no right to

demand better, and should quietly accept less. It was

about more than a contract. —Adrianne Shropshire

uess the moral of the story is that my mother had to die

order for me to escape credit card default and possiblencial ruin. For too many American families, not even thisgain with the devil is available.”—Mark Winston Griffith

“Is Brooklyn’s congressional delegation a friend of

the middle class? For the most part, yes, accordingto a 2005 ‘scorecard’ recently released by theDrum Major Institute for Public Policy.”

DMI Fellow Adrianne Shropshire with New York AssemblymanRichard Brodsky on Marketplace of Ideas panel, September 200



and an Arthur Garfield Hays Roger Baldwin Civil Rights and

Human Rights Fellow, was our first Civil Justice Fellow andembodies our vision for the program.

When Cyrus and DMI looked closely at the issue of tort “reform”

and access to the courts, we realized that within popular media

there were a lot of conservative voices framing the debate and

advocating proposals without a progressive response. We

launched TortDeform.Com: The Civil Justice Defense Blog to

confront and tran scend the arguments put forth by the tort

‘reform’ movement and to influence the public discussion.

With guest contributors including Ralph Nader, the Center for

Justice and Democracy, and victims of tort “reforms” themselves

TortDeform.com has become a focal point of the conversation

about the future an d importance of our civil justice system. As

Ian Welsh, managing editor of The Agonist.com, put it:

“Until TortDeform.com it was very difficult to find anyone

making the simple

argument that justice

means nothin g if

citizens can’t use the

courts to get redress for

wrongs done to

them….TortDeform

supplies the ammunition

—the facts and the legal

knowledge for anyone

who n eeds to respond to the r ight’s attempt to make the court

system a place where businesses sue each other and which

ordinary people are excluded from.”

A society in which people do not have access to the courts to

seek a remedy for their injuries cannot be a functioning

democracy. The Drum Major Institute will be hard at work

taking on the r ight in their pur suit of an agenda driven by

corporate America, and not the real needs of Americans.

This year we commemorated the fifth anniversary of the 9/11

attacks. Headquartered in N ew York City, DMI was particularly

alarmed by the plight of th e sick Ground Zero rescue and

cleanup workers wh o have been given the legal run around in

their pu rsuit of justice.

From initially denying a link between Groun d Zero and workers’

illnesses, to fighting workers’ compensation claims, to claiming the

city was immune from all Ground Zero lawsuits, New York Cityofficials and businesses have essentially made it as hard as possible

for those exposed at Ground Zero to get back on their feet.

While the case of 9/11 is a singular event in our nation’s history,

the treatment of the Ground Zero workers is symptomatic of many

of the unjust challenges injured Americans face when attempting

to pursue remedy. Over the last several decades, a collection of

corporate interests self-identified as tort “reformers” have aggressively

pushed forward laws that make it increasingly difficult for

Americans to hold corporations accountable for their misconduct.

Think tanks like the Manhattan Institute have been hard at

work feeding lobbyists and politicians the language to articulate

the nation’s problems as the result of greedy trial lawyers suing

too many corporations. This h as had very serious impacts,leading to state and federal legislation that blocks regular

Americans’ access to the courts.

DMI decided to fight back. We created a fellowship, en dowed by

board member Melvyn Weiss, for recent law school graduates

who have a background in progressive activism to spend a year

at DMI learning about and working on civil justice issues.

Cyrus Du gger, a graduat e of New York University School of Law

DMI Civil Justice

“Reclaiming the debate of America’s legal system

is “mission critical” for the Progressive movementand Tort Deform takes on the task. Much more

than a ‘legal blog,’ Tort Deform dares to ask

“Why” Americans see our legal system as a foerather than a friend—as a system that harms usrather than protects us from danger. And then,having posed that question, Tort Deform

generates the ideas to bring about positivechange for justice.”

—JEFF FELDMAN IS EDITOR OF FRAMESHOPAND A CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST WHO

LIVES AND TEACHES IN NEW YORK CITY.

Creating new tools and constituencies

for the effort to protect Americans’ access to the courts.

“Refreshingly free of legal jargon, TortDeform

helps remind us how important it is that we allhave access to the courts.”

—REBECCA BAUER, NATIONAL CAMPAIGNTO RESTORE CIVIL RIGHTS

“As we wait for better national policies, state and local leaders can takepractical steps to bring the underground economy we rely on into thelight of day, ensuring that everyone who loves and works on LongIsland is incorporated into the economic mainstream.”—Amy Traub

“The dichotomies presented to us—t

member, city versus unions—are faworkers who pay the taxes that fill thgovernments in the first place.”— A



DMI ScholarsBasic Training for the War of Ideas.

DMI’s mission is to provide tools to those who advance a

progressive agenda. We already provide the ideas. Now we will

provide the talent to execute those ideas.

In doing so, we will meet a significant need. As Gloria Totten , the

Executive Director of the Progressive Majority, an organization

that recruits and trains progressive candidates on the local level,

recently said, “Progressives at all levels of government require staff

members that are superbly trained, articulate and ready to fight forgood progressive policy. By introducing college students to the

policy arena and giving them the skills they need to be effective

advocates, DMI will ensure that the n ext generation of progressive

leadership is waiting in the wings.”

In doing so, we will develop the future Chiefs of Staff,

Issues Directors, and Legislative Analysts advancing a

progressive agenda for our country.

DMI Scholars will identify progressivecollege students from underrepresentedcommunities and train them in the skillsnecessary to obtain and succeed inentry-level public policy positions.

At this year’s National Conservative Students Conference, one

young conservative stated that he comes, “to network with fellow

right wing conspirators, because we’re all going to run the count ry

some day.”

True or not, that ’s what he is taught to believe. The success of the

conservative right-wing in this country comes in great par t from

how well they have nur tured their young. Many of the

policymakers and influencers that dr ive the conservative

movement today were the young leaders of yesterday. They were

mentored, supported and placed on the pathway to in fluence.

For far too long progressives have been more successful with

getting young people to rallies and community service than

preparing them to enter the world of public policy, where the

ultimate long-term success of an agenda of social and economic

justice is determined.

Enter DMI Scholars.

DMI Scholars is the Drum Major Institu te’s answer to one of the

most critical challenges facing the progressive movement today:

the lack of a pipeline dedicated to support ing and guiding talented

young people into the field of public policy. We are recruiting college

activists from under-represented populations who can become, if

guided, the next generation of progressive thinkers and leaders.

DMI Scholars centers around a two-week Summer Institute that

will begin in 2007 as a “Progressive Public Policy 101” of sorts:

A basic training that offers DMI Scholars the public policy lens,

analytical and writing skills and resources and experiences to

understand, n avigate and successfully enter the public policyworld. For those who successfully complete the Summer

Institute and remain in terested in th e field of public policy, DMI

will facilitate ongoing leadership and development opportu nities

through internships and mentorships with progressive

policymakers and advocates.

“Having the political aspirations that I do, the DMIScholars program seems like a great entry to the

world of government and public policy with realopportunities that will affect the rest of my life.”

—WENDELL MARSH, MOREHOUSE COLLEGE

“This program willensure that we have

people who understandthe need for progressivepolicies within the

circles where policydecisions are made and

influenced. It guides

students in a way thathelps them succeed inthe field while remainingtrue to their values.”

—WALTER BARRIENTOS

BARUCH COLLEGE

us union

icipalityopshire

“People watching Lou [Dobbs’] show don't think, you know, today is health care day for me. Today

is an education policy day for me. Today is tax cuts for me… They experience things as anoverall feeling of anxiety. And Lou speaks directly to that anxiety.”—Andrea Batista Schlesinger

If you are a progressivecollege activist whowants to shape thedirection of our country,DMI Scholars is for you.

Theelectionis over.

Nowwhat?DMI Scholars is a “Public Policy 101,”preparing college students from diversecommunities to successfully enter thepublic policy world.

The progressive movement now needs adiverse, talented group of activists to viewpublic policy as a vehicle for their activism.

The Drum Major Institute for Public

Policy (DMI) is a think tank staffed byyoung progressives who want to drivepublic policy, not just lament its failures.We created DMI Scholars to build a farmteam of Chiefs of Staff, Issues Directors,and Legislative Analysts advancing aprogressive agenda for our nation.

If you want to learn how to make animpact on the policies that impact you,become a DMI Scholar.

Ourfirst Summer

Institute training for

DMI Scholars will bein New York City from

July 29–August 12, 2007.

And if you complete

our intensive training

successfully, we willhelp you explore

careers in this field

through internships and

networking opportunities.

All expensesare covered.Applications acceptedon a rolling basisDecember 8,2006–

January 17, 2007.

APROJECT OF

DMISCHOLARS

www.drummajorinstitute.org/dmischolars



After six years of failed domestic policies,

Americans used the “short walk to the voting

booth” that Dr. King used to speak of to

demand change. They were no longer satisfied

with the immoral chasm, widening at a

dramatic pace, between the haves and

have nots.

As we approach 2007, our nation finds itself atan exciting time. The Drum Major Institute

finds itself is in important position to speak to

the critical issues of this time like the minimum

wage, social security, and immigration.

You would be amazed how many elected

officials are turn ing to the institut e for

guidance. And h ow many people are turn ing

to DMI to learn more about their elected

officials and whether or not they are

representing their interests in

Washington, DC.

This election showed that the “drum major

instinct” lives on. Now more than ever we

must heed Dr. King’s call for all of us to

involve ourselves in the march to social

justice. Indeed, it thrives in the care of people

like you: Americans who share Dr. King’sdream of a fairer and just nation and are

willing to support the work required to

achieve that dream, citizens who understand,

as a moral matter, that the rich can’t get richer

if the poor are getting poorer.

This cause is a deep part of my heritage. My

father, Harry Wachtel, founded the Drum

Major Foundation (th e predecessor to DMI)

when he was one of Dr. King’s close

advisors. I grew up surrounded by a

generation of like-minded heroes who knew

that giving back to our n ation means

helping the weakest among us, because “Icannot be what I ought to be, until you are

allowed to be what you ought to be.”

Our work has results—both at the ballot box

and in the legislatures of this great nation.

Policy matters, and DMI stands for policy

that doesn’t demean the memory of Dr. King

by stealing his words, but that h onors his

dream by putting words into action. Unlike

those on the conservative right, we don’t

opt King’s vision and values. We live the

So if you can find a place on your list

of worthy causes for th e Drum Major

Institute, I assure you with absolute

confidence that it will be an investment

will make you proud.

Please make a contribution to the Dr um

Major Institute today—and become, as

Dr. King said, a true drum major for justic

Sincerely,

Bill Wachtel

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Ambass ador Andrew YoungChairmanGood Works In tern ational, LLC

Melvyn I. WeissV ice ChairmanMilberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP

William B. WachtelFounder Wachtel & Masyr, LLP

John CatsimatidisRed Apple Group, Inc.

Bruce CharashApple P.I.E. (Partners In Education)

Cecilia ClarkeSadie Nash Leadership Project

Sandra CuneoCuneo Advocates

Jennifer Cunningham1199 SEIUUnited Healthcare Workers East

Rosanna M. DurruthyAequus Group

Stuart FeldmanChelsey Capital

Matthew GoldsteinCity Univer sity of New York

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.Waterkeeper Alliance

Martin Luther King, IIIRealizing the Dream

Danie l T. McGowanHIP Health Plan of New York

Bernard NussbaumWachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Morris Pearl

BlackRock Tom WatsonChanging Our World

Randi WeingartenUnited Federation of Teachers

Jennefer WitterThe Boreland Group, Inc.

Andrew Young IIIYoun g Solution s

STAFF

Andrea Batista SchlesingerExecutive Director

Amy M. TraubAssociate Director of Research

Cyrus DuggerSenior Fellowin Civil Justice

Penny AbeywardenaDirector of Strategic Relations

Elana LevinCommunications Manager

LeeAnn Fletcher

Operations Manager / Development Associate

Sarah SolonPolicy and Commun ications Associat

Tsedey BetruDirector of DMI Scholars

A Message from DMI Founder Bill Wachtel

Bill Wachtel and Martin Luther King, III

“Donald Trump said last week that ‘The middle class is disappearing and America is becoming

a two-class society. Soon you will be either rich or poor.’ This isn’t news to squeezed middle-class Americans. But when even Donald Trump is warning about the death of the AmericanDream, isn’t it time for our nation’s leader to pay attention?—Andrea Batista Schlesinger

“Brave, n

and reallaborcomsystem o

“If you want to say that I was

a drum major, say that I was a

drum major for justice; say that

I was a drum major for peace;

say that I was a drum major

for righteousness. And all ofthe other shallow things will

not matter... I just want to

leave a committed life behind.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

Ebenezer Baptist Church,

February 4, 1968



Thank you to our donors for their generous support.

Founders Circle$100,000 and AboveOpen Society Institute

William Wachtel

Melvyn I. Weiss

Patrons$50,000—$99,999Chelsey Foundation Trust

Morris Pearl

Defenders of the Dream$20,000—$49,999Neil Barsky

Democracy AllianceHIP Health InsurancePlan of New York

Horace Hagedorn Foundation

United Federation of Teachers

Keepers of the Flame$5,000—$19,9991199 SEIU UnitedHealthcare Workers East

John CatsimatidisChange to Win Labor Federation

Bruce Charash

Chelsea Green Publishing

Peter Fine

Mark Gallogly & Elizabeth Strickler

Local 32BJ SEIU

Helen & Louis Lowenstein

Chris McNickle

New York StateTr ial Lawyers Association

Sagner Family Foundation

Bernard Schwartz

Stephen Siegel

21ST Century ILGWUHeritage Fund

UNITE-HERE

Drum Majorsfor Justice$1,000—$4,999Astoria Graphics, Inc.

David Axelrod

Evan Behrens

Tonio Burgos

Jerry Colonn a

Rosanna Durruthy

Matthew Goldstein

Hecht & Co.Philanthropic Fund

George Kaufman

Craig Kirsch

Laborers’ InternationalUnion of North America

Steven Levy

Susan Mackenzie

Al Maloof

Jack Marco

The New York Observer

David Pollak

Retail Wholesale& DepartmentStore Union

Daniel Rosner

Service EmployeesInternational Union

Thomas Sweitzer

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Alan Vinegrad

Tom Watson

Howard Wolfson

Vshift, LLC

Alfred Yates

Progressive Patriots

$200—$999John Amorison

Sarah Jean Avery

Sarah Baglio

John Chachas

Cecilia Clarke

Sandra Cuneo

Michael D’innocenzo

Drew & Rogers, Inc.

Stephen & Elyse Gutman

Susan Herr

Jack Hoffinger

James Katz

Daniel Keating

Alissa LevinLarry Luftig

Michael Murphy

Karen N ewirth

NYS Public EmployeesFederation

Zeva Oelbaum &John Reichman

Iara Peng

Darryl Pitt

Precise Corporate Printing

Michael Rabinowitz

Diane ReevesRetirees Associationof D.C. 37, AFSCME,AFL-CIO

Daniel Rose

William Sipper

Andrea Batista Schlesinger

The PublicAdvocacy Group

Giovanna Torchio

Concerned Citizens

$199 and UnderJay Ackroyd

Louis Albano

Ken Albrecht

Clifford Anderson

Dawn Barber

Ruth C. Bauer

John Berman

Bruce Bernstein

Raoul Bhavnani

Adam Bonin

Nancy BurnhanLeonard Carr

Jamie Chandler

Lewis Cohen

Margaret Cott

Carolina Dyer

William A. Estlick

Cynth ia Edwards

Austin Evers

Fernando Ferrer

Thomas Fontana

Cynthia Freeman &Josh Goldstein

Stefan Friedman

Aaron Goldberg

Marjorie Harris

Eric Hauser

Randi Hazan

Noah Heller

Margaret Kass

Hilary & Junichi Kitasei

Hildy Kuryk

Rick LaBreche

Athena LaFlamme-Edwar

Maureen Lane

Raymond Levin

Abraham Markman

Andra Miller

John Mollenkopf

Roy Moskowitz

Sallie Motch

Christopher Murphy

Zulaihat Nauzo

Paul Ness

Dirk Neyhart

Tom Osterman

David Ourlicht

Sylvia PerezViktor & LillianPohorelsky

Clifton Poole &Amy Traub

Marcia Poston

Maria Teresa Rojas

Bruce Rosen

Martin & Barbara Schiffe

SEIU Local 200United

Harris Silver

Jonathan Silverman

James Siminoff

Michael Swanson

The Lloyd Group

Ronald and Susan Tr aub

Limor Weiner

ers have taken a fresh look at the problem

source of wage depression and unfairt immigrant workers themselves but rather aigration laws.”—Amy Taylor

“The more you look closely at what happened in the aftermath of

9/11, you start to see an alarming parallel between those eventsand the model of putting profits over safety—or what I like toterm the tort reform business model. —Cyrus Dugger

*This list includes contributions from December 2005 through November 2006



1 2 3 4

6 7 8 9

11 12 13 14

16 17 18 19

21 22 23

1) John Edwards 2) New York State Governor Eliot S3) Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos.com 4) Senator HillaClinton 5) Paul Krugman 6) Maryland State Senator Gary Lawlah 7) SEIU President Andy Stern 8) Harry B9) New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn10) Arianna Huffington 11) Change to Win President ABurger 12) New York City Deputy Mayor Dennis Walc13) Katrina vanden Heuvel 14) Wynton Marsalis15) DMI Founder Bill Wachtel 16) United Federation of TPresident Randi Weingarten 17) Representative CharRangel 18) Al Franken 19) David Sirota 20) Los AngelMayor Antonio Villaraigosa 21) Ambassador Andrew Y22) Howard Dean 23) DMI President Emeritus Fernand

DMI: A Gathering Place for America’s Progressive Leadership

“This administration has corroded the public values that promote

children’s and parents’ well-being: the public sector’s competence,collective responsibility to one another, and the ability of manypoor Americans to save and own homes.”—Mark Winston Griffith

“This bill makes explicit the right-wing ca

that the working poor cannot be allowbenefit unless the idle rich benefitexponentially more.”—Elana Levin



Dear Friend:

Now what?

The mid-term elections are over. Where do we go from here?

Unlike in sports, a victory in politics is only meaningful if itleads to something else. In this case, electoral victories must lead

to public policy that will actually improve people’s lives.

That’s why we do what we do. The Drum Major Institute for

Public Policy’s mission is to generate the ideas that fuel the

progressive movement. And since 1999 we have provided the

research, the models, the policies and th e tools that have shone

a bright light on h ow governmen t can actually work for the people.

It’s not always glamorous to be a par t of a think tank. But it’s times like

these—when elections are over and the tough task of governing begins—that

the n eed for our work is clear.

Th is year has special meaning. It’s been five years since I came to DMI,

and in this time I have watched the current administration push the

American Dream even fur ther out of reach for most of us. So I am honored

to serve as Executive Director of an organization that fights back by equipping

regular people to hold their representatives accountable, challenging the tired

orthodoxies of the left and the right on issues like immigration, and

preparing a new generation of progressives to create fairer and more just

public policy.

DMI wouldn’t stand a chance against the well-organized and well-funded

think tanks of the conservative right if it weren’t for th e commitment and

sustained support of our DMI community. Thanks to you, we doubled ourstaff size and budget and enjoyed an unprecedented national impact in 2006.

We are now prepared for even more in fluence in 2007, when th e country

needs our ideas the most.

On behalf of the DMI staff and Board of Directors, thank you for

your investment in our shared mission to defend and strengthen th e

American Dream. Th e New Year beckons with fresh hope and exciting

opportu nity. We look forward to the challenge. With your su pport, DMI

will seize this moment and help our nation to emerge from six years of

conservative failures.

Thank you again for an extraordinary year.

Andrea Batista Schlesinger

Executive Director

Now that you’ve readthis annual report frocover to cover, youknow that the DrumMajor Institute isplaying a critical role advancing a progressiv

agenda for our nation

Today, more than everwe are in a criticalmoment in the war ofideas. DMI can do itspart to turn the midterelectoral victory into amore meaningful, lastivictory for the AmericaDream. B u t we n eed yo u r s u pport.

Here are five waysyou can make an investmenin the Drum Major Institutefor Public Policy:

• Make a CASH CONTRIBUTIOwith a check, credit card, or wire transfer from your bank.

• CONTRIBUTE ONLINE.Our secure gift service offersa quick, convenient and safemethod for making a contributusing your credit card. Visitdrummajorinstitute.org/support.h

• Give a GIFT OF STOCK OROTHER SECURITIES. You mclaim a tax deduction for thefull market value of appreciastock, bonds, and other kindof securities that you have hfor over a year.

• Join an EMPLOYEE MATCHIGIFT PROGRAM. Manyemployers will match charitadonations made by theiremployees (often on a 2:1 o

3:1 basis). Ask your HumanResources or Public Affairsoffice for more information.

• Consider PLANNED GIVING.Name the Drum Major Institufor Public Policy in your will.

Your contributions are tax-deductibto the fullest extent of the law. Thayou for your support.

SUPPORT DMI “The world would be a better place if DMI got more money!”—ARI BERMAN, THE NATION

“I took the advice of Susan Brennan of Sayre and looked up the voting record of my

U.S. House representative, John R. Kuhl. Not surprisingly, regarding the same seven billsused to rate performance relating to the middle class vs. the rich, he, too, voted againstall seven bills and also was rated "F" (0 percent) by the Drum Major Institute.”

he Peter B. Collins Show



110 East 59th Street, 28th Floor New York NY 10022 T 212.909.9663 F 212.909.9493 drummajorinstitute.org

The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy is a non-partisan, non-profit think tank generating the ideas that fuel the progressive

movement. From releasing nationally recognized studies of our increasingly fragile middle class to writing landmark analysis showing

that a progressive immigration policy is in the best interest of America’s current and aspiring middle class, DMI has been on the

leading edge of the public policy debate. For more information, please visit www.drummajorinstitute.org.

Drum Major Institute: 2006 Annual Report

Documents

Transcript of Drum Major Institute: 2006 Annual Report