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Advocates Rally to Eliminate ‘Sub-Minimum Wage'

Brooklyn Daily Eagle - October 23, 2014, by Matthew Taub - Hundreds of tipped and low-wage workers and advocates, including fast food, car wash and other low-wage workers, rallied...

Raising the Bar for Workers and Families
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Taxing the rich: how Seattle leads a ‘go-local’ trend in liberal politics

Taxing the rich: how Seattle leads a ‘go-local’ trend in liberal politics

Seattle is trying to tackle income inequality one local move at a time – and becoming a case study in how cities are testing liberal policies that lack traction at the state or federal level....

The Christian Science Monitor

Poor Immigrants Get Free Legal Defense in New York City Program

NBC News - June 25, 2014, by Kat Aaron and Seth Freed Wessler - Leroy Samuels walked into the Varick Street immigration court in lower Manhattan, his wrists handcuffed and attached to a chain...

I Was Detained in a Hellish Private Prison—And Wall Street Corporations Are Behind It All

As a report, “Bankrolling Oppression,” from the Center for Popular Democracy, Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change, Enlace International, and The Strong Economy for All...

Alternet | Civic Engagement

On-call Shifts String Retail Workers Along

The Boston Globe - April 19, 2015, by Dante Ramos - Because life-threatening crises arise at odd times, people in some fields have days when they’re on call. EMTs get called...

Restoring a Fair Workweek

JPMorgan Chase Is Funding and Profiting From Private Immigration Prisons

One of America's largest banks, JPMorgan Chase, is quietly financing the immigration detention centers that have detained an average of 26,240 people per day through July 2017, according to a new ...

Alternet | Civic Engagement

As Wells Fargo is Accused of Fabricating Foreclosure Papers, Will Banks Keep Escaping Prosecution?

Democracy Now - March 21, 2014 - A new internal report says the Justice Department massively overstated its successes in targeting mortgage fraud while in fact ranking it as a low priority for...

Holding Wall Street Accountable

The First Time Maria Gallagher Talked About Her Sexual Assault, It Was to Senator Flake

The Senate Judiciary Committee has officially voted to move Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination forward. However, Sen. Jeff Flake has requested an FBI investigation take place before the...

Elle | Civic Engagement
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Texas Gives The Green Light To Racial Profiling

Texas Gives The Green Light To Racial Profiling

Today, a judge in San Antonio will be hearing opening arguments on a lawsuit against Senate Bill 4, a law passed in Texas last month that is the single biggest attack on immigrants this country...

The Huffington Post
[created] | Published by: Arizona Capitol Times

Rep. Blanc arrested, then released following D.C. demonstration

Rep. Blanc arrested, then released following D.C. demonstration

Blanc was in Washington participating in a sit-in along with advocates from Living United For Change in Arizona, or LUCHA, and national groups like United We Dream and Center for Popular Democracy...

Arizona Capitol Times

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Perkins was a key writer of New Deal policies. Known as an expert on health and safety policy reforms in New York state, Frances Perkins was tapped by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor in his cabinet - the first woman to serve.

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Frances Perkins was born in a world on fire. In the early 1900s Robber Barons didn’t care about workers rights or the safety of children that worked in their factories. “Safety laws” as we know them today didn’t exist- and the wealthy actively fought against them.

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