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NYPD Collars May Day Protestors Demonstrating Against Trump’s ‘Greedy Corporate’ Backers

May Day kicked off in Manhattan with police arresting 12 activists protesting against major corporations the objectors accused of supporting and profiting from President Donald Trump’s aggressive...

NY Observer | Civic Engagement

Fed Chairwoman: African-Americans Have Not Recovered from Economic Downturn

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen delivered her semiannual testimony on the U.S. economy and monetary policy to the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday. In her prepared remarks, Yellen...

Atlanta Black Star | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

The First Time Maria Gallagher Talked About Her Sexual Assault, It Was to Senator Flake

The Senate Judiciary Committee has officially voted to move Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination forward. However, Sen. Jeff Flake has requested an FBI investigation take place before the...

Elle | Civic Engagement
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Uniting to Improve Wages and Conditions for Workers

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Uniting to Improve Wages and Conditions for Workers

Huffington Post - February 26, 2013, by Camille Rivera - In March of 1968 -- just three weeks before he was assassinated -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. declared in a speech that one of the great...

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City Governments Spend More For Policing Than Social Services

City Governments Spend More For Policing Than Social Services

Watch a discussion about how governments spend more money on policing than they do on social services.

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Hello Beautiful (facebook Live) | Justice Transformation

When Work Creates Insecurity

Many of us think that any employment, even part time, provides a measure of security. This is not the case for the millions of low-wage workers who are subject to unstable work schedules. In an...

Restoring a Fair Workweek
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Peralta pushing to pass Carlos’ Law

Peralta pushing to pass Carlos’ Law

“Citing a 2013 report by the Center for Popular Democracy, Peralta said that between 2003 and 2011, three out of four victims in fatal construction accidents in the United State were immigrants or...

Queens Chronicle | Civic Engagement

In The Battle To Raise Minimum Wages, Businesses Opposed Are Outgunned

This is the third post in a series about ballot measures to raise the minimum wage in Colorado and three other states. The first post introduced a restaurateur in Denver who supports the increase...

Forbes | Raising the Bar for Workers and Families
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Three profs arrested at D.C. protest

Three profs arrested at D.C. protest

Three Yale professors were arrested in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday for engaging in civil disobedience in support of immigrant rights.

On Wednesday, over 10,000 people rallied at Upper...

Yale Daily News

Gillibrand Has Received Big Campaign Donations from Puerto Rico Bondholders

“Politicians that receive money from hedge fund managers like Seth Klarman and Dan Loeb should understand that their money is coming from people who have pushed austerity and privatization as the...

Sludge | Civic Engagement

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Perkins was a key writer of New Deal policies. Known as an expert on health and safety policy reforms in New York state, Frances Perkins was tapped by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor in his cabinet - the first woman to serve.

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Frances Perkins was born in a world on fire. In the early 1900s Robber Barons didn’t care about workers rights or the safety of children that worked in their factories. “Safety laws” as we know them today didn’t exist- and the wealthy actively fought against them.

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