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[created] | Published by: newfoodeconomy.org
09/13/2019

New York City files $1 million suit against Chipotle for labor violations

New York City files $1 million suit against Chipotle for labor violations

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...

09/13/2019 | newfoodeconomy.org
[created] | Published by: The Indypendent
09/9/2019

Plugging NYC’s School-To-Prison Pipeline

Plugging NYC’s School-To-Prison Pipeline

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...

09/9/2019 | The Indypendent
[created] | Published by: CounterPunch
09/6/2019

Jerome Powell, Labor Day Hero?

Jerome Powell, Labor Day Hero?

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...

09/6/2019 | CounterPunch | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up
[created] | Published by: peoplesworld.org
09/4/2019

EPI report: Forced arbitration to cover 80% of private sector workers by 2024

EPI report: Forced arbitration to cover 80% of private sector workers by 2024

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...

09/4/2019 | peoplesworld.org
[created] | Published by: New York Daily News
09/2/2019

Jerome Powell, Labor Day hero

Jerome Powell, Labor Day hero

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....

09/2/2019 | New York Daily News | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up
[created] | Published by: Colorado Politics
08/30/2019

Let's restore local governments' power to regulate rent

Let's restore local governments' power to regulate rent

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...

08/30/2019 | Colorado Politics
[created] | Published by: Slate
08/28/2019

Piper Perabo: Resistance Celebrity

Piper Perabo: Resistance Celebrity

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...

08/28/2019 | Slate | Justice Transformation

Next Left: Greg Casar Is Bringing Progressive Politics to Texas—and He’s Winning

There’s a smarter way of doing politics emerging in this country, one that recognizes that every elected position has the potential to serve as a platform for transformational change. This is...

08/27/2019 | The Nation

Broadway Advocacy Coalition Announces Second Quarterly Gathering Featuring Stephanie Hsu, Shaina Taub, and More

The Broadway Advocacy Coalitiona is a group of Broadway artists committed to building the capacity of advocates, students, artists, organizations and communities to use the arts as an integral...

08/27/2019 | Broadway World | Civic Engagement
[created] | Published by: CNN Business
08/27/2019

The Trump administration is decimating workers' rights

The Trump administration is decimating workers' rights

The Trump administration is advancing policies that further rig a system that's already stacked against working people in America. There are few more powerful examples than the administration's...

08/27/2019 | CNN Business

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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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