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Providence-based Citizens Bank — which extended $96 million in credit to CoreCivic in 2018, according to the Center for Popular Democracy — has yet to officially cut ties with the industry.

Rachel Deutsch, who heads the Fair Workweek Initiative at the Center for Popular Democracy, said her organization challenges companies to take a Fair Workweek pledge, and offers to work with them to implement

A new investigation released last month by the Center for Popular Democracy and Local Progress — an organization headed by local elected officials, including us, who are working to implement national social

In 2012, the Center for Popular Democracy, a national organization that sponsors and supports local activist groups, was just getting off the ground.

sure that all future funding needs are fully met so that public units do not fall into disrepair," noted Dianne Enriquez, a supporter of the bill and co-director of community dignity campaigns at the Center … for Popular Democracy.

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez were joined at the announcement by NYCHA residents, tenant advocates, and representatives of large groups such as the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the Center for Popular … Democracy, the National Housing Law Project and the progressive think tank Data for Progress.

Representative Omar’s bill proves that it is possible for every person in the United States to have a stable, affordable place to call home,” said Dianne Enriquez, co-director of community dignity campaigns, Center … for Popular Democracy.

“Local Progress” is a “network of progressive local elected officials” affiliated with the Center for Popular Democracy, which in turn is closely tied to city-funded Make the Road New York, one of the

Before I was old enough to get my driver's license or cast my first vote, I came face-to-face with one of the biggest issues facing young Black and Brown people today: the school-to-prison-and-deportation pipeline. I was eight years old the first time police arrested me in school. I was in my classroom when I got called out to the administrator’s office.

New York City mayor Bill De Blasio, former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti along with the National Partnership for New Americans and the Center for Popular Democracy formed

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