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[created] | Published by: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
06/20/2019

New Liberate MKE campaign community groups vow to take on Milwaukee's city budget

New Liberate MKE campaign community groups vow to take on Milwaukee's city budget

The Liberate MKE campaign is a collaboration between 25 partners, including the ACLU of Wisconsin, BLOC, Center for...

06/20/2019 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Civic Engagement
[created] | Published by: Next City
06/20/2019

New York Expanded Rent Control. Will Other Cities Follow Suit?

New York Expanded Rent Control. Will Other Cities Follow Suit?

“It was the alliance of tenants and homeless New Yorkers in New York City and smaller cities around the state that made...

New York Could Become First State To Be Completely Done With Private Prisons

According to a groundbreaking April 2019 data brief by #FamiliesBelongTogether coalition members In the Public Interest...

06/19/2019 | Forbes | Holding Wall Street Accountable
[created] | Published by: Jacobin
06/17/2019

Universal Rent Control Now

Universal Rent Control Now

The Center for Popular Democracy, the Right to the City Alliance, and PolicyLink recently released a report, “Our Homes...

[created] | Published by: CNN
06/16/2019

United Shades of America

United Shades of America

Last year, L.I.T. and the Center For Popular Democracy released a report that showed Milwaukee’s black high school...

[created] | Published by: The Huffington Post
06/12/2019

Activists Take On Medicare For All, The Census And Abortion In Day Of Action

Activists Take On Medicare For All, The Census And Abortion In Day Of Action

A few dozen protesters participated in a series of events, organized by the advocacy group Center for Popular Democracy...

06/12/2019 | The Huffington Post
[created] | Published by: Medpage Today
06/10/2019

Protesters Rally, Disrupt Opening Session at AMA Meeting

Protesters Rally, Disrupt Opening Session at AMA Meeting

Jennifer Epps-Addison, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, a grassroots lobbying organization,...

06/10/2019 | Medpage Today | Civic Engagement
[created] | Published by: The Appeal
06/10/2019

Durham City Council says no to more police

Durham City Council says no to more police

“Kumar Rao of the Center for Popular Democracy was one of the authors of the report. “As a nation we’re spending over $...

06/10/2019 | The Appeal
[created] | Published by: Radio Bilingue - National Latino Public Radio Network
06/7/2019

Linea Abierta: Immigration Edition

Linea Abierta: Immigration Edition

Advocates greet the House passage of the Dream and Promise Act (HR 6) calling it a historic legislation and vowing to...

06/7/2019 | Radio Bilingue - National Latino Public Radio Network
[created] | Published by: Corporate Crime Reporter
06/6/2019

Single Payer Advocates to Protest AMA Annual Meeting in Chicago

Single Payer Advocates to Protest AMA Annual Meeting in Chicago

The protests against the AMA are being organized by Physicians for a National Health Program, Students for a National...

06/6/2019 | Corporate Crime Reporter | Civic Engagement

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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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