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Full Employment for All: The Social and Economic Benefits of Race and Gender Equity in Employment

How much stronger could the economy be if everyone who wanted a job could find one—regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender?

To inform the Fed UP campaign, PolicyLink and the...

Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

Milwaukee faces historic opportunity to transform schools. Here’s how.

Milwaukee spends a greater fraction of its general fund on policing than many other major cities. A 2017 report from the Center for Popular Democracy, Law for Black Lives, and Black Youth Project...

Wisconsin Gazette | Organizing for Education Justice

How to Help Residents of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands Recover After Hurricane Maria

These organizations are helping with immediate needs—like food—and long-term efforts, including rebuilding...

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Colorlines | Civic Engagement

Main Street Takes on Monetary Policy, Round 2

Washington Post - November 14, by Ylan Mui - Main Street plans to take on the maestros of monetary policy today, armed with a list of demands aimed at prolonging central bank stimulus and...

Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

Demonstrators Hold 'Die-In' To Protest Sackler Family’s Ties to Harvard Art Museums

Medical School students and the Center for Popular Democracy’s Opioid Network—a band of more than 45 grassroots organizations that have formed in response to the opioid crisis—organized the...

The Harvard Crimson | Civic Engagement

New York Questions Big Retailers Over 'On-Call' Staffing

Reuters - April 13, 2015 - New York's attorney general has sent letters to 13 national retailers, including Gap Inc, Target Corp and JC Penney Co Inc, about "on-call shifts" in which workers are...

Restoring a Fair Workweek

Protesters Converge On Stephen Schwarzman's Water Mill Home

About 35 protesters from various political organizations—the Center for Popular Democracy, Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change, and Strong for All Economy Coalition—converged...

27east | Civic Engagement

Congress to Consider Bill to Help Part-Timers

New York Post - July 22, 2014, by James Covert - Part-timers with increasingly unpredictable work schedules are taking their beef to Washington.

A congressional bill is slated for...

Restoring a Fair Workweek

Turning a Moment into a Movement after the Deaths of Unarmed Black Men

Washington Post - February 19, 2015, by Marc Fisher, Sandya Somashekhar, and Wesley Lowery - In the months following...

Organize Florida activists protest Trump infrastructure plan

Progressive activists gathered on the shores of Lake Parker on Thursday to air their discontent with the Trump administration’s outline for a nationwide infrastructure improvement plan.

The...

The Ledger | 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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