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Developing Progress: Ensuring that public resources contribute to New York’s equity, resilience, and dynamic democracy

Progressive development policies that ensure consideration of economic, social, and environmental impacts will grow a...

Activists Call on Fed Chief to Focus on Struggles of Citizens

The China Post - November 16, 2014 - In a rarity for a U.S. central bank chief, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen met...

Schedule Rules Prove Difficult to Implement

San Francisco — San Francisco, the country’s premier laboratory for new Internet services, is also used to innovating...

Richmond Fed Chief Pick Renews Debate on Shrouded Hiring Process

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond’s decision to hire Thomas Barkin as its next president has renewed questions over...

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...

Report: Language access isn’t great

Capitol Confidential – August 7, 2013, by Jimmy Vielkind - Several immigrant advocacy groups released a report this...

Unemployed Take Their Case to Fed Officials at Jackson Hole

Reuters - August 23, 2014, by Michael Flahery - Reginald Rounds was among those present at the Federal Reserve's high-...

Gap Says It Will Phase Out On-Call Scheduling of Employees

The move makes Gap the latest retailer to move away from “on-call scheduling,” which regulators, workers’ rights groups...

Three Labels Control 80% Of The U.S. Music Industry. What Responsibility Comes With That Power?

In recent months, the music media has responded to the political climate by zooming in on artist behavior: Have or...

The ALS Activist Who Thinks He Can Flip a Deep Red Arizona District

Last week, Barkan and a host of progressive activists announced the launch of the Be a Hero initiative, created in part...

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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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