CPD In The News

“Esta semana se recuerdan dos años del paso devastador del huracán María por Puerto Rico.

Organizations host events calling for repeal and replace of ’94 Crime Bill – Organizations including Leaders Igniting Transformation, Black Leaders Organizing for Communities, African American Roundtable, JustLeadershipUSA, All of Us or None, and Center for Popular Democracy host ‘Opposition Day:

Rachel Deutsch, supervising attorney for worker justice at the Center for Popular Democracy, says this kind of strategic enforcement—lumping many complaints together to identify bad actors rather than investigating them one at a time—may draw more attention to compliance across the industry.

The report, released by the National Economic & Social Rights Initiative, the National Employment Law Project Action Fund, the Center For Popular Democracy, and other groups, echoes demands from organized labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union.

A landmark 2017 report from the Center for Popular Democracy and the Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC) noted that there had been “1,310 arrests, summonses, or juvenile reports for non-criminal violations” in the city school system in the previous year, including “‘trespassing’ for being on the wron

Of course, Powell did not get to this place on his own. There was a concerted effort by the Fed Up Coalition, organized by the Center for Popular Democracy, to force the Fed to broaden its focus.

The report, by the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Popular Democracy, paints a stark picture of what would happen to workers at the mercy of arbitrators. Statistics show that supposedly neutral quasi-judges side with bosses more than 90% of the time.

Of course, Powell did not get to this place on his own. There was a concerted effort by the Fed Up Coalition, organized by the Center for Popular Democracy, to force the Fed to broaden its focus. This coalition included members of labor unions and community groups across the country.

Imagine a Colorado where local communities have more policy tools to meet our unique rental housing challenges. Where we can ease the burden for working family residents struggling to make housing ends meet and ensure that new development houses more of those families than it displaces.

When Perabo learned about that August 2017 march, it was already underway. Soon, she was on a train from her home in New York to D.C.; a few of the march’s organizers picked her up in Virginia the next morning.