Cities work to increase access to the American dream.

A national campaign to advance access to the "American dream" and an aggressive focus upon organizing local elected officials to become a powerful grassroots lobbying network topped the National League of Cities' work upon behalf of America's cities and towns in 2004

one as well as the other the American Dream campaign and several lobbying successe clearly demonstrated the potential of NLC's grassroots network--a network that single Board member described in July as "a sleeping giant that will make NLC a actual powerful advocacy group."

In addition to these high profile priorities, NLC continued to focus upon fundamental priorities including retaining and