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Experts Urge Fed To Pursue 'Genuine Full Employment' Before Rate Hike

The Federal Reserve should pursue "genuine full employment" with "robust wage growth" before raising interest rates, ...

Proposal Would Allow Immigrants in New York Illegally to Become Citizens

ABC 7 New York - June 16, 2014, by Dave Evans - It is a long shot, but a proposal by a New York State lawmaker would...

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Divided Democrats face liberal backlash on immigration

Divided Democrats face liberal backlash on immigration

Opponents of demonstrators urging the Democratic Party to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA...

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Report: Anti-gay Laws Drive Up Poverty Rates for LGBT People

Miami Herald - September 30, 2014, by Steve Rothaus - A report issued Tuesday shows that LGBT Americans face added...

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City Governments Spend More For Policing Than Social Services

City Governments Spend More For Policing Than Social Services

Watch a discussion about how governments spend more money on policing than they do on social services....

Hello Beautiful (facebook Live) | Justice Transformation

Conservatives May Control State Governments, But Progressives Are Rising

Bill Moyers - March 18, 2015, by George Goehl, Ana María Archila, and Fred Azcarate - In November, conservatives swept...

Fed policymakers see rate hikes, blurring dove-hawk divide

Whitehurst’s group of activists, Fed Up, has printed pamphlets to distribute at the conference venue that say George,...

Instead Of Turning On Each Other, Immigrant And Domestic Workers Unite To Form New Organization

The Huffington Post - November 17, 2013, by Farah Mohamed & Ryam Grim - In times of economic weakness, the...

Jeff Flake jokes about moment when sexual assault survivors confronted him on elevator

Sen. Jeff Flake cracked a joke Saturday about the viral moment we was confronted by sexual assault survivors on an...

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Struggle and the State

Struggle and the State

Today's Dig is a very good and somewhat unusual Dig: Dan’s got two interviews with two different people. First,...

The Dig and Daniel Denvir (podcast) | Civic Engagement

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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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