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Rivera and Camara Put Up Immigration Bill They Admit Won’t Pass This Session

New York Observer - June 16, 2014, by Will Bredderman - Four days before the legislative session in Albany ends for the summer, Bronx State Senator Gustavo Rivera and Brooklyn Assemblyman Karim...

Milwaukee faces historic opportunity to transform schools. Here’s how.

Milwaukee spends a greater fraction of its general fund on policing than many other major cities. A 2017 report from the Center for Popular Democracy, Law for Black Lives, and Black Youth Project...

Wisconsin Gazette | Organizing for Education Justice

Newark, NJ Passes Earned Sick Days Bill by 5-0

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 28, 2014


 


NEWARK CITY COUNCIL PASSES PAID SICK DAYS BILL


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New York State Becomes First in the Nation to Provide Lawyers for All Immigrants Detained and Facing Deportation

The Vera Institute of Justice and partner organizations today announced that detained New Yorkers in all upstate immigration courts will now be eligible to receive legal counsel during deportation...

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Banks on the Run (Continued)

The Nation - April 30, 2013 - You can’t talk about poverty without talking about the practices of the big banks, including their continuing refusal to stem the foreclosure crisis through mortgage...

Holding Wall Street Accountable

Rigorous Review of Nashville Charter Schools Needed

The Tennessean - April 14, 2015, by Stephen Henry & Erick Hutch - Teachers are joining parents and local community groups to ask the Metro Nashville Public...

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Flexible Schedules vs. Workers’ Burdened Life

Flexible Schedules vs. Workers’ Burdened Life

Michael Saltsman’s “A Stiff Jab at Flexible Work Schedules” (op-ed, March 30) misses the mark. Policy makers don’t want to “dictate how businesses schedule employees’ work”—but rather ensure...

Wall Street Journal | Restoring a Fair Workweek
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New Layers of Dirt on Charter Schools

New Layers of Dirt on Charter Schools

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An earlier review...

Truth-Out | Organizing for Education Justice
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A Life Without Papers

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A Life Without Papers

New York Times - March 2, 2015, by Ehiracenia Vasquez - The birth certificates for my children, born here eight and four years ago. The receipts that prove I paid property taxes on the trailer...

The New York Times | Protecting Immigrant Communities

Black Unemployment Dips to 7-Year Low

The Black unemployment rate tumbled to 9.1 percent in July, the lowest rate for Black workers in seven years, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Labor Department.

Even though...

Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

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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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