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Leaders Begin City’s Left Turn With Sick Pay Proposal

New York Times - January 17, 2014, by Michael Grynbaum and Katie Taylor - New York City’s top elected officials said on Friday that they would greatly...

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Lael Brainard, a Fed governor in the political glare

Lael Brainard, a Fed governor in the political glare

In the middle of meetings of the world’s central banking elite in Wyoming’s Jackson Lake Lodge in August 2015, Lael Brainard sat down with activists who were denouncing calls for tighter monetary...

Financial Times | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

Statement on Dallas Fed Announcement

“At a time when the Federal Reserve is starved for new, more well-rounded thinking, it is troubling that its opaque, secretive process for selecting its leadership could only yield a candidate cut...

Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

Policy for a new majority

The Huffington Post - July 15, 2013, by Brittny Saunders - Two weeks ago, the U.S. Senate approved historic federal immigration reform legislation in a 68-32 vote. Observers have linked the bill's...

Why a group of Commerce City teachers spent a day asking parents how they could do their jobs better

COMMERCE CITY — On a recent Saturday morning, about a dozen teachers from the Adams 14 School District walked through a trailer park asking parents how they could do their jobs better.

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Chalkbeat Colorado | Organizing for Education Justice

JPMorgan Chase Is Funding and Profiting From Private Immigration Prisons

One of America's largest banks, JPMorgan Chase, is quietly financing the immigration detention centers that have detained an average of 26,240 people per day through July 2017, according to a new ...

Alternet | Civic Engagement

Los estados deben ser líderes en la protección de los inmigrantes

Si bien ciertos candidatos a la presidencia han ocupado los titulares con sus indignantes propuestas de deportar a los inmigrantes indocumentados, el hecho es que los inmigrantes se van a quedar y...

El Diario

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

System Failure: Louisiana's Broken Charter School Law

Executive Summary

In the ten years since Hurricane Katrina, post-storm changes to the state’s charter school law have dramatically grown the number of charter schools in...

Bushwick Residents Rally at City Hall to Decry Deadlock on Immigration Reform

“Today we suffer, in November we vote,” dozens of protesters chanted in front of City Hall this afternoon. Some 40 people gathered to express dismay over yesterday’s Supreme Court deadlock over...

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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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