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Elizabeth Warren and more than 100 House Democrats blast lack of diversity at the Fed

The Federal Reserve System is one of the most important institutions in the entire American government. Its composition is also almost shockingly non-diverse, with zero African Americans or...

Vox | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

“We matter”: Dozens with pre-existing conditions stage D.C. sit-in over GOP health care bill

Marthella Johnson was born with one kidney. At a young age, the 42-year-old resident of Little Rock, Arkansas, developed kidney stones.

Before the Affordable Care Act, many insurers...

Mic | Civic Engagement
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Want To Change The Face Of Politics? Help Teens Register To Vote.

Want To Change The Face Of Politics? Help Teens Register To Vote.

In a recent Center for Popular Democracy report, we detailed examples of youth-focused campaigns for high school registration around the country. In Phoenix, organizers at Living United for Change...

The Huffington Post | Fighting for an Inclusive Democracy

US lawmaker welcomes plan to aid Caribbean immigrants

Guardian - July 22, 2013 - Caribbean American Congresswoman Yvette D Clarke has welcomed a plan by New York City (NYC) to aid undocumented Caribbean immigrants. NYC officials say the city will...

Protecting Immigrant Communities
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Activists from around the country to march, hold workshops in Pittsburgh

Activists from around the country to march, hold workshops in Pittsburgh

An estimated 1,500 demonstrators will hit the streets of Downtown Pittsburgh this afternoon — and both geographically and politically, they expect to cover a lot of ground.

The “Still We...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Protecting Immigrant Communities, Organizing for Environmental Justice, Organizing for Education Justice, Raising the Bar for Workers and Families

Skinny Girl's CEO Bethenny Frankel charters multiple planes to bring supplies to Hurricane Maria survivors

Bethenny Frankel is turning the full force of her efforts on the disaster in Puerto Rico post Hurricane Maria. As reported by People, the Skinny Girl CEO, B Strong charity spearhead, mother, and...

The Los Angeles Times | Civic Engagement
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Group Blasts Fed for Lack of Diversity in Leadership

Wall Street Journal

Group Blasts Fed for Lack of Diversity in Leadership

Source: Wall Street Journal

Federal Reserve leadership is overly...

Wall Street Journal | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

Protesters Press Diversity Case as New York Fed Seeks New Chief

“Fed up, we can’t take it no more!” chanted a group of about 50 green shirt-clad members of Fed Up, a grass-roots advocacy campaign that has received backing from Facebook billionaire Dustin...

Bloomberg | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

America’s Biggest Corporations Are Quietly Boosting Trump's Hate Agenda

Corporate Backers of Hate campaign calls on companies to end practices that benefit from Trump's agenda...

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Alternet | Civic Engagement

The Housing Recovery Has Skipped Poor and Minority Neighborhoods

On October 11, 2009, when Isaac Dieudonne was two years old, his family moved into a new home in Miramar, Florida. As they began to unpack, young Isaac bounded out the...

Organizing for Housing Justice & A Home to Thrive

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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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