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Jobs Data Shows Economy Still Not Recovered, Far from Full Employment

Workers Still Face Low Pay, Part-Time Employment in Today’s Economy

Connie Razza, Director of Strategic Research for the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), released the following...

Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up
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Let cities better help their retirees

Let cities better help their retirees

In less than 20 years, one in every five Americans will be over the age of 65 and we will live longer than any generation before us. For those without adequate savings for retirement, those added...

The Hill | Civic Engagement

The Spy Who Fired Me

Harpers Magazine - March 2015, by Esther Kaplan - Last March, Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s Mad Money, devoted part of his show to a company called Cornerstone OnDemand. Cornerstone, Cramer...

Restoring a Fair Workweek

LA is Taking On the Fair Workweek Fight - It Could Change Your Life

The Center for Popular Democracy did an extensive national study of retail workers in 2017, surveying over 1,000 people working in retail and finding that despite statewide minimum wage gains and...

City Watch LA | Restoring a Fair Workweek
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Prosecutors and Race Bias: Why the DOJ Needs to Act

Prosecutors and Race Bias: Why the DOJ Needs to Act

Prosecutors are supposed to hold people accountable when they hurt other people—that’s part of the job. Yet for years prosecutors across the country have opted out of that responsibility when the...

The Crime Report

Interest rate clock ticks for Janet Yellen and the Fed – but is China a wild card?

In just a little over three weeks’ time, on 17 September, the US central bankers are going to have to sit down around a table and decide ...

Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

Political Theater: Community Groups giving HUD “Grinch of the Year” award

Housing Wire - December 17, 2014, Trey Garrison - An opposite day version of Christmas comes early to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as...

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Advocates Demand More Money for Opioid Crisis

Advocates Demand More Money for Opioid Crisis

Today, advocates for expanded funding to address opioid misuse will take to the Capitol to push Congress for $45 billion for treatment and overdose prevention. While President Donald Trump...

Politico | Civic Engagement

New York City Increases Its Resistance to Federal Entreaties on Foreign-Born Detainees

The New York Times - December 5, 2013, by Kirk Semple - For years, New York City correction officials routinely provided federal immigration authorities with information about foreign-born...

Protecting Immigrant Communities

Amalgamated Bank Sets Example with $15 Minimum Wage

Following Amalgamated Bank’s announcement that it will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour, Brian...

Raising the Bar for Workers and Families

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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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