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"We Need a Working People's Bailout": Unemployment Claims Hit 30 Million as Many Struggle to Afford Necessities

National groups including Indivisible, the Center for Popular Democracy, and Greenpeace have been calling for weeks for...

04/30/2020 | Common Dreams
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04/29/2020

A National Movement to Cancel the May Rent Takes Shape

A National Movement to Cancel the May Rent Takes Shape

No other approach will work, say the advocates with the National Housing Justice Grassroots Table, a coalition of...

04/29/2020 | CityLab
[created] | Published by: The Nation
04/28/2020

Take Action Now: Bail Out People, Not Corporations

Take Action Now: Bail Out People, Not Corporations

Then, help low-wage workers being hit hardest by the pandemic meet their basic needs by donating to the center for...

04/28/2020 | The Nation

As Amazon, Walmart, and Others Profit Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Their Essential Workers Plan Unprecedented Strike

The May 1 strike is the latest in a wave of actions led by union and nonunion front-line workers. Last month, Amazon...

04/28/2020 | The Intercept
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04/28/2020

Senators ask for review of prisons’ handling of coronavirus

Senators ask for review of prisons’ handling of coronavirus

Kumar Rao of the progressive Center for Popular Democracy said Congress should include specific directives to the...

04/28/2020 | WAWV-TV (Terre Haute, IN)
[created] | Published by: Boston Review
04/27/2020

The New Politics of Care

The New Politics of Care

though largely in the global South, and who are trusted and effective in their work on health, with local organizations...

04/27/2020 | Boston Review

It’s time for employee and consumer advocates to speak up for COVID-19 accountability

“It’s the only thing that keeps them honest,” added Rachel Deutsch of the Center for Popular Democracy.

04/27/2020 | Reuters
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04/25/2020

Protesters Leave Body Bags at Trump's Washington D.C. Hotel

Protesters Leave Body Bags at Trump's Washington D.C. Hotel

Jennifer Flynn Walker, the group's senior director of mobilization and advocacy, explained to the Post that...

04/25/2020 | Complex
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04/25/2020

How Best to Help Renters

How Best to Help Renters

prepare for the economic fallout that will come if we are expected to continue to pay rent while we are unable to earn...

04/25/2020 | DS News

Protesters lay 'body bags' at Trump hotel over coronavirus response

Protesters driving in the motorcade stop at the Trump International Hotel Getty The protest was organised in part by...

04/25/2020 | SBS

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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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