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Schumer and Pelosi on Opposite Sides of Budget Deal, As the Fate of DREAMers Hangs in the Balance

After failing to force a government shutdown before Christmas, advocates from a variety of groups, including United We Dream, The Center for Popular Democracy, and Make The Road, managed to...

Alternet | Civic Engagement

Chicago Group Pushing For $15 Minimum Wage

Huffington Post - May 28, 2014, by Joseph Erbentraut - A coalition of Chicago aldermen on Wednesday introduced an ordinance that would increase the minimum wage for many workers in the third-...

Contractors and Workers at Odds Over Scaffold Law

New York Times - December 17, 2013, by Kirk Semple - In 1885, as new engineering inventions were ushering in the era of the skyscraper, lawmakers in New York State...

First meeting of Trump’s voting commission makes clear that suppression is the goal

Vice President Mike Pence claimed during the first meeting on Wednesday of the White House’s Commission on Election Integrity that the group will go about its work with “no preconceived notions.”...

ThinkProgress | Fighting for an Inclusive Democracy
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The fight to make bad jobs better

The fight to make bad jobs better

As of November 26, 2017, fast food companies in New York are required to post worker schedules 14 days in advance. If they change the schedule within that window, they will pay an extra fee to the...

Vox | Restoring a Fair Workweek

'I was demanding a connection': Ana Maria Archila reflects on confronting Jeff Flake

Ana Maria Archila had never told her father that she was sexually abused as a child.

But after she confronted a U.S. senator about President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee and the video...

The Washington Post | Civic Engagement

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

Black Lives Matter Releases Policy Demands, Includes Reparations And Abolishing The Death Penalty

On Monday, more than 60 organizations associated with the Black Lives Matter movement released a series of policy demands, including free access to higher education, reparations, and an end to...

Civic Engagement
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Why Texans Are Fighting Anti-Immigrant Legislation

Why Texans Are Fighting Anti-Immigrant Legislation

Austin, Tex. — I’m a member of the Austin City Council, and this month Texas State Troopers arrested me for refusing to leave Gov. Greg Abbott’s office during a protest against the anti-immigrant...

The New York Times

The Fed needs a revolution: Why America’s central bank is failing — and how we can make it work for us

One reality hanging over the presidential election and our politics in general is this: No matter what terrific plan a politician has for creating jobs and boosting wages, it must contend with the...

Salon | 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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