CPD IN THE NEWS

According to a groundbreaking April 2019 data brief by #FamiliesBelongTogether coalition members In the Public Interest and The Center for Popular Democracy, GEO Group has a $900 million revolving line of credit with a syndicate of six banks (BNP Paribas, Bank of America, Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, SunTrust, and Wells Fargo), has borrowed $490.8 million under the line of credit, owed six banks a total of $786 million through its term loan, and issued four bonds totaling $1.150 billion.

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Last year, L.I.T. and the Center For Popular Democracy released a report that showed Milwaukee’s black high school students made up 53% of the student body but accounted for 80% of the over  10,000 suspensions during the 2015-2016 school year. That's double the national rate. And not only that, more than 100 black students were expelled for things white students were just suspended over...

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Jennifer Epps-Addison, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, a grassroots lobbying organization, led the group in chants of "Everybody In, Nobody Out!" She explained that her husband was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a few years ago, and even though she has good health insurance, it costs the family $800 per month in premiums, and still more in other out-of-pocket costs. "This current healthcare system not only doesn't work for low-income and no-income people, but it doesn't work for the middle class families who are struggling to get by either," she said. "My family is one job transition away from risking my husband's life. That ain't right."

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Advocates greet the House passage of the Dream and Promise Act (HR 6) calling it a historic legislation and vowing to take now their fight to the Senate. On other news, according to new figures, the number of people who are becoming citizens is rising again while activists continue pressing USCIS to deal with the huge backlog of applications. On other story: pastors and churches who help asylum seekers in Arizona are being threatened and harassed by extreme anti-immigration groups and they are not going to take it anymore. These and other stories are discussed in this weekly edition.

Guests: Ana Maria Archila, Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy, New York, NY; Susan Collins, Director of Policy and Advocacy, National Partnership for New Americans, Washington, DC; Others TBA.

Tune into the program on Tuesday, June 11.