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On the steps of the Capitol last Thursday, Casar introduced the new Texas chapter of Local Progress, a national network of local progressive elected officials. Leaders from around the state — including Dallas, Desoto, Balch Springs and San Marcos — showed up to affirm their right to govern.
“Just-in-time scheduling is the practice, pervasive in low-wage industries, of publishing work schedules just days in advance and tweaking those schedules up until the last minute, in an attempt to precisely calibrate staffing to match expected demand,” explained Rachel Deutsch of the Center for
Today, a freshly published data brief by In the Public Interest, the Public Accountability Initiative, and the Center for Popular Democracy revealed that Wall Street banks provide over $2.6 billion in credit and loans to private prison companies, despite widespread reports on human rights abuses
A report released Tuesday by In the Public Interest, the Public Accountability Initiative, and the Center for Popular Democracy detailed how Wall Street continues to finance private prisons that violate human rights.
New data reveals how Wall Street banks provided more than $2.6 billion in financing to the private prison industry. UNews spoke to Ana María Archila, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, one of the three organizations responsible for the report.
Between 2013 and 2015, the DOL helped workers collect an average of $27 million annually in mandated pay, such as the full minimum hourly wage, overtime compensation and tips, according to a report authored by the workers' rights groups, Make the Road New York and the Center for Popular Democracy
The groups also took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times reading, "Attention corporate America: don't let hate into your boardroom." The effort is being organized by Restore Public Trust, together with some 40 groups that have signed on.
The Center for Popular Democracy, a progressive advocacy group, had planned to go to Cambridge that week, anticipating that they might capture the new members’ attention. Hoping to amplify their message through the most visible members of the progressive movement, they invited Ayanna S.
City council members said they've worked hard to pass paid sick leave and anti-discrimination ordinances. They call the bills an attack on their work.
About a dozen city and county elected officials, including Austin City Council Member Greg Casar, were at the Capitol Thursday to talk with lawmakers and voice their opposition to several bills.
