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[created] | Published by: Inside Philanthropy
04/1/2020

Virus-Proofing the Vote: Democracy Funders Respond to COVID-19 — Inside Philanthropy

Virus-Proofing the Vote: Democracy Funders Respond to COVID-19 — Inside Philanthropy

Brian Kettenring, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, believes an even larger sum will be...

04/1/2020 | Inside Philanthropy
[created] | Published by: Business Ethics
04/1/2020

Economic ‘Opportunity Zones’ Stoke Controversy

Economic ‘Opportunity Zones’ Stoke Controversy

Community advocates like Branden Snyder, executive director of Detroit Action, and Dianne Enriquez, Co-Director of...

04/1/2020 | Business Ethics
[created] | Published by: Bloomberg News
04/1/2020

Landlords in U.S. Squeezed Between Missed Rent and Overdue Loans

Landlords in U.S. Squeezed Between Missed Rent and Overdue Loans

On a conference call Tuesday, the Center for Popular Democracy called for eviction freezes and rent and mortgage...

04/1/2020 | Bloomberg News
[created] | Published by: Medium
03/31/2020

Local Leaders Respond to COVID-19

Local Leaders Respond to COVID-19

for the next installment of Off-Kilter’s ongoing series of COVID19 conversations… Rebecca sat down (virtually) with...

03/31/2020 | Medium
[created] | Published by: Bloomberg Law News
03/31/2020

Philadelphia Worker Scheduling Law Takes Effect During Pandemic

Philadelphia Worker Scheduling Law Takes Effect During Pandemic

While the pandemic creates extra uncertainty for employers and workers alike, worker advocate Rachel Deutsch from the...

03/31/2020 | Bloomberg Law News
[created] | Published by: Baltimore Afro American
03/30/2020

Communities United Blocks “Horrific” Bill

Communities United Blocks “Horrific” Bill

Working with similar organizations like Action Now, in Illinois, and the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD).

03/30/2020 | Baltimore Afro American
[created] | Published by: The Real Deal
03/30/2020

New York City's Homeless Brace for Coronavirus Pandemic

New York City's Homeless Brace for Coronavirus Pandemic

Management Agency could provide a fast solution for the homeless by issuing vouchers for hotels or building emergency...

03/30/2020 | The Real Deal
[created] | Published by: Common Dreams
03/29/2020

As April 1 Nears and Coronavirus Crisis Continues, Demand to #CancelRent Swells

As April 1 Nears and Coronavirus Crisis Continues, Demand to #CancelRent Swells

— Ady Barkan (@AdyBarkan) March 22, 2020 Cancel rent. https://t.co/Cm1rVZ3NS9 —...

03/29/2020 | Common Dreams

The Stimulus Package Hurts Abortion Providers, Immigrants & Anyone With Student Debt — But It Helps Corporations

"We are disappointed that corporations get $500 billion, while immigrants get cut out of health provisions or...

03/27/2020 | Refinery29

For Organizer Ady Barkan, COVID-19 is Yet Another Reason to Pass Medicare for All

He was working at the Center for Popular Democracy, she had secured a job as an English professor at University of...

03/26/2020 | Time Magazine

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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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