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Protesters ask Fed to delay at Jackson Hole summit

About 50 demonstrators gathered in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, holding signs reading "whose recovery is this" and "how many jobs do I have to work to be middle class?" Surrounded by the protesters,...

Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up
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Panelists talk immigration policy at CNN documentary screening

Panelists talk immigration policy at CNN documentary screening

Ana María Archila, the co-executive director for the Center of Popular Democracy, said immigrants are frightened and anxious just living their lives and going about their daily routines.

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The GW Hatchet
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Detener los préstamos de día de pago es apenas el inicio

Detener los préstamos de día de pago es apenas el inicio

En los últimos años, se han incrementado las críticas contra los préstamos de día de pago por explotar a los prestatarios de bajos ingresos y atraparlos en un ciclo de endeudamiento. El problema...

El Diario NY
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Five Long Island nonprofits to share $70,000 in grants

Five Long Island nonprofits to share $70,000 in grants

Five Long Island nonprofits concerned with progressive social change were awarded funding by the Long Island Unitarian Universalist Fund, which doled out $70,000 in its first round of grants for...

Long Island Business Review

When It Comes to Jobs, Fed Up With the Fed

The News & Observer - March 5, 2015, by Kevin Rogers - When the monthly jobs numbers come out Friday, many economists will say that the economy is healthy. Some will even say that wages are...

Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

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-...

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Chris Hemsworth suits up on the Midtown set of Marvel’s “Avengers”

Chris Hemsworth suits up on the Midtown set of Marvel’s “Avengers”

Proceeds benefit the Hurricane Maria Community Relief & Recovery Fund at the Center for Popular Democracy.“I want those audience members to know this is not just doing a star-studded event...

Atlanta Constitution-Journal | Civic Engagement

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...

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Why Diversity Matters at the Federal Reserve

Why Diversity Matters at the Federal Reserve

There’s no question that race and gender matter in determining people’s economic fortunes. African Americans’ unemployment rate is typically twice as high as that of whites. The racial wealth gap...

The New Republic | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

Progressive campaigners say they have no remorse over Yellen era

Progressives played a key role in paving the way for Janet Yellen to become the first chairwoman of the Federal Reserve in 2014. And they don’t regret it.

Left-leaning Democrats in the...

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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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