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Nationwide #DisneyLetHimGo Protests Call on Disney CEO to Leave Trump Council

NATIONWIDE - Today the Center for Popular Democracy and its affiliates including Organize Florida and ACCE, together...

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Influence, the power to change

Influence, the power to change

Clad in a “Stand With Black Women” shirt, Mercedes Fulbright, the Texas State Coordinator at Local Progress, commanded...

The Dallas Examiner
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Silicon Valley part-time workers file petition to work more hours

Silicon Valley part-time workers file petition to work more hours

San Jose labor advocates, religious leaders and hourly workers on Tuesday submitted to city officials a proposed ballot...

San Francisco Chronicle | Restoring a Fair Workweek

Report: Black Minnesotans Missing Out On Economic Recovery

CBS Minnesota - March 5, 2015 - African Americans are not experiencing the same economic recovery compared to others in...

Congressional Briefing Coming on the ‘Walmart Economy’

24/7 Wall ST - November 27, 2014, by Paul Ausick - U.S....

'Secure scheduling' rallies focus on giving hourly workers more stability

Dive Brief: New York City Mayor DeBlasio and several advocate groups gathered recently to show support for the...

Rockefeller Institute Hands over Final Scaffold Law Report Draft

Times Union - September 3, 2014, by Casey Seiler - SUNY’s Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government has released a...

The Fed’s about to try something that almost always has ended in recession

The Federal Reserve‘s looming attempt to shrink its mammoth portfolio of bonds comes with an ugly track record:...

Passenger with ALS Calls Out Sen. Jeff Flake on Tax Vote, DACA

Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake recently has been masquerading as a Republican with a heart, someone willing to...

Splinter | Civic Engagement

Blood in the Streets: A Conversation About Gun Violence in Chicago

Gawker - July 11, 2014, by Jason Parham - Earlier this week, writing for The Daily Beast, Roland Martin proposed a...

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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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