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Addressing an image problem?: American Investment Council highlights positives of private equity in Ohio and the rest of the U.S.

According to a ...

10/22/2019 | Crain's Cleveland Business | Holding Wall Street Accountable

Following New Findings on the Effects of Unstable Schedules, Congress to Pursue Fair Scheduling Legislation

10.17.2019

WASHINGTON -- In a roundtable discussion today with retail workers,...

10/17/2019 | Restoring a Fair Workweek
[created] | Published by: The New York Times
10/16/2019

How Unpredictable Work Hours Turn Families Upside Down

How Unpredictable Work Hours Turn Families Upside Down

Unpredictable schedules can be brutal for hourly workers, upending their lives. New research shows that African-Americans, Hispanics and other minorities — particularly women — are much more...

10/16/2019 | The New York Times | Restoring a Fair Workweek
[created] | Published by: Vox
10/15/2019

The movement to make workers’ schedules more humane

The movement to make workers’ schedules more humane

Alicia Fleming had worked as a server at restaurants in Massachusetts for a decade and a half. She enjoyed the work, but after she had her son at the age of 32, she found it impossible...

10/15/2019 | Vox | Restoring a Fair Workweek

Target raised wages. But some workers say their hours were cut, leaving them struggling

Two years ago, Target (TGT) said it would raise its minimum wage to ...

10/14/2019 | CNN | Raising the Bar for Workers and Families
[created] | Published by: The Good Men Project
10/12/2019

How Working Families Can Impact Private Equity

How Working Families Can Impact Private Equity

Looking at economies around the world, it’s easy to think that reconciling markets with justice, or profit with basic fairness and human decency, is simply impossible. With the looming risks that...

10/12/2019 | The Good Men Project | Holding Wall Street Accountable
[created] | Published by: Fairfax County Times
10/11/2019

Social services and education meet in Fairfax County’s community schools program

Social services and education meet in Fairfax County’s community schools program

When Fairfax County Public Schools appointed Clint Mitchell as the new principal at Mount Vernon Woods Elementary School, the district’s primary directive to its newest administrator was change...

10/11/2019 | Fairfax County Times | Organizing for Education Justice

Wall Street pulled its financing. Stocks have plummeted. But private prisons still thrive.

Over the past year, private prison giants CoreCivic and GEO Group have been abandoned by Wall Street and seen their stock prices plummet.

Activists are rejoicing in the...

10/3/2019 | The Washington Post | Holding Wall Street Accountable, Protecting Immigrant Communities
[created] | Published by: Next City
10/3/2019

Housing Movement Demands Find Some Recognition in Congress

Housing Movement Demands Find Some Recognition in Congress

Campaigns for rent control and tenant protections that have been simmering for years in high-cost cities have managed to break through to the national level in the last few months. Two progressive...

10/3/2019 | Next City | Organizing for Housing Justice & A Home to Thrive
[created] | Published by: Colorlines
09/30/2019

The '94 Crime Bill 25 Years Later: It's Time for a Reckoning [Op-Ed]

The '94 Crime Bill 25 Years Later: It's Time for a Reckoning [Op-Ed]

It’s been 25 years since Congress passed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994—...

09/30/2019 | Colorlines | Justice Transformation

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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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