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Today in New York, immigrant rights activists are celebrating after Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill allowing undocumented residents to obtain driver's licenses. The bill overturns a nearly 20 year ban and came after years of grassroots and political organizing.
As a new report by the Center for Popular Democracy and EPI highlights, the number of workers that each Wage and Hour Division investigator at DOL was responsible for in 1978 was just over 69,000.
“It was the alliance of tenants and homeless New Yorkers in New York City and smaller cities around the state that made the new laws possible, says Sarah Treuhaft, managing director at PolicyLink.
The Liberate MKE campaign is a collaboration between 25 partners, including the ACLU of Wisconsin, BLOC, Center for Popular Democracy, Citizen Action Wisconsin, Leaders Igniting Transformation, MICAH, Urban Underground, the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, Wisconsin Voices and the YWCA of Southeas
The Center for Popular Democracy, the Right to the City Alliance, and PolicyLink recently released a report, “Our Homes, Our Future,” to highlight the critical importance of rent control. Our networks actively support tenant organizing across the country.
Last year, L.I.T. and the Center For Popular Democracy released a report that showed Milwaukee’s black high school students made up 53% of the student body but accounted for 80% of the over 10,000 suspensions during the 2015-2016 school year. That's double the national rate.
A few dozen protesters participated in a series of events, organized by the advocacy group Center for Popular Democracy, that were based around a common theme: the belief that the decisions of those currently in power are detrimental to the lives of the people, who must come together to fight bac
Jennifer Epps-Addison, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, a grassroots lobbying organization, led the group in chants of "Everybody In, Nobody Out!" She explained that her husband was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a few years ago, and even though she has good health in
Advocates greet the House passage of the Dream and Promise Act (HR 6) calling it a historic legislation and vowing to take now their fight to the Senate.
“Kumar Rao of the Center for Popular Democracy was one of the authors of the report. “As a nation we’re spending over $100 billion a year on policing and the vast bulk at that is actually at the local level,” he told the Daily Appeal.
