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N.Y. Lawmaker Aims to Give Voting Rights to Undocumented Immigrants

Reuters - June 16, 2014, by Curtis Skinner - A New York lawmaker wants to grant many of the rights of citizenship to...

Are Scheduling Bills Like D.C.'s Helpful or Meddlesome?

The District of Columbia Council scheduled a hearing for Jan. 13 on a bill that would require stores and restaurants to...

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Peralta pushing to pass Carlos’ Law

Peralta pushing to pass Carlos’ Law

“Citing a 2013 report by the Center for Popular Democracy, Peralta said that between 2003 and 2011, three out of four...

Queens Chronicle | Civic Engagement

Object Action: The "F" Word in a Post-truth Era Opening Reception to Collect For Change Inauguration

Object Action: The "F" Word in a Post-Truth Eramarks the inauguration of Collect For Change-an initiative which...

Broadway World | Civic Engagement

May Day rallies across U.S. target Trump immigration policy

Labor unions and civil rights groups staged May Day rallies in several U.S. cities on Monday to denounce President...

Reuters

Labor Activists Applaud First Statewide ‘Fair Scheduling’ Law

Starting next summer, companies in Oregon will have to give workers at least seven days’ notice about when they’ll have...

What Will a Trump Administration Mean for Supporters of Public Education?

We don’t know very much about President-Elect Donald Trump’s ideas about education. Although, during the campaign,...

Be Our Guest: The downside of immigration reform is increased deportation of immigrants who don’t deserve it

New York Daily News - February 25, 2013 - Nisha Agarwal - President Obama and Congress have not addressed the federal...

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SF Finalizes Settlement in Nevada ‘patient dumping’ Case

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SF Finalizes Settlement in Nevada ‘patient dumping’ Case

A $400,000 “patient dumping” ...

San Francisco Examiner

Maggie Bulmer: Pause Charter School Expansion

Providence Journal - January 27, 2015, by Maggie Bulmer - Does supporting two parallel school systems make sense?...

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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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