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‘Inflation Dynamics’ With the Fed as Ringmaster

In the center ring, Federal Reserve brass will be gathering for the closed-door conference that is hosted annually by the Kansas City Fed. Janet Yellen is skipping the event, as chairs of the...

Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up
[created] | Published by: Philadelphia Daily News

Commentary: I need the economy to give me a fair chance

Commentary: I need the economy to give me a fair chance

I'VE ALWAYS enjoyed talking with people, and, as long as I can remember, I wanted to work in the hotel industry. It's been my dream to work with guests at the front desk to make sure they have the...

Philadelphia Daily News | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up
[created] | Published by: Idaho Press

Still important to let our senators know what we think

Still important to let our senators know what we think

What do Credo Action, MoveOn, Idaho Medical Advocacy, CPD Action, Daily Kos, People’s Action, Elizabeth Warren, Mom’s Rising, Our Revolution, Change.Org, AARP, and the Economic Policy Institute...

Idaho Press | Civic Engagement

Elizabeth Warren to Help Propose Senate Bill to Tackle Part-Time Schedules

The Guardian - July 23, 2014, by Jana Kasperkevic - Part-time jobs are becoming the source of an...

Restoring a Fair Workweek

Why the Fed should target underemployment, not unemployment, as it sets interest rates

Members of the Fed Up Coalition protest during the Jackson Hole economic symposium in 2015.

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MarketWatch | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up
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Black Community Seeks the Power of the Ballot

Black community voting

Black Community Seeks the Power of the Ballot

Source: Vox


For black communities in the United States,...

Vox | Fighting for an Inclusive Democracy
[created] | Published by: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Black leaders in Pittsburgh echo frustration voiced across nation

Black leaders in Pittsburgh echo frustration voiced across nation

Pittsburgh could easily become the next Dallas as frustrations in poor black neighborhoods continue to mount over perceived economic inequalities and mistreatment by police officers, black...

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | Raising the Bar for Workers and Families

CPD Director of Research Connie Razza on Melissa Harris-Perry

How Pension Plans are at Risk

Melisa Harris-Perry - March 23, 2014 - Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, Connie Razza, Arun Gupta and Karen Friedman takes a closer look at Detroit’s pension funds as...

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Why the Phrase 'Late Capitalism' Is Suddenly Everywhere

Why the Phrase 'Late Capitalism' Is Suddenly Everywhere

An investigation into a term that seems to perfectly capture the indignities and absurdities of the modern economy...

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The Atlantic | Restoring a Fair Workweek

New Report Details Plans for Low-Wage Worker Justice

The Village Voice - February 14, 2013 - When a worker in this city has to endure a three-hour walk to work because his minimum wage salary doesn't allow for him to afford public transportation,...

Raising the Bar for Workers and Families

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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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