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Fifth Third had $40 million in outstanding balances on term loans and revolving credit lines with Nashville, Tenn.-based CoreCivic, one of the two largest private prison operators, as of year-end, according to a report produced by the Center for Popular Democracy, In the Public Interest and the P
Yet, as revealed by this data brief by In the Public Interest, Public Accountability Initiative, and the Center for Popular Democracy, the Group's US subsidiary led a syndicate that granted two lines of credit to the American private prison company GEO Group for $1.7 billion in 2017, and held 853
A sign with "#EndFamilyDetention" is held high during a protest with Washington area national and local organizations including CASA, Center for Popular Democracy, Faith in Action, and the Capital Area District 32BJ SEIU in Lafayette Square Park, in Washington on the immigration policies of the T
MoveOn was joined by the ACLU, the Center for Popular Democracy, and other organizations in planning at least 184 events in cities and towns across the country.
Natalia Salgado, a senior political strategist with the Center for Popular Democracy, a progressive organization, warned that Trump is misjudging the political effect his policies will have: “What he doesn’t understand is that in communities of color, that sort of raising of the temperature and f
“What he doesn’t understand is that in communities of color, that sort of raising of the temperature and fear mongering is also going to bring us out,” said Natalia Salgado, senior political strategist at the Center for Popular Democracy, a group that opposes Trump’s immigration policies.”
“Furthermore, the agents and investigators at labor agencies who actually police the labor market, who are a subset of the total personnel employed, have seen their workloads reach unrealistic levels because hiring has failed to keep up.
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.
