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Youth of Color Demand Racial Justice in Gun Reform During #NationalSchoolWalkout

In the days leading up to today’s protest, young people of color released a petition that calls for gun reform and...

Charter schools misspend millions of Ohio tax dollars as efforts to police them are privatized

Akron Beacon Journal - 05.30.215  - No sector — not local governments, school districts, court systems, public...

“No hate in my holler” march is a window into West Virginia’s political divide

When Jessica Shayan saw on Facebook that the national group CPD Action, a sister organization of the Center for Popular...

100 Days in Appalachia | Civic Engagement
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Martin Luther King, institutions and power

Martin Luther King, institutions and power

Jared Bernstein, a former chief economist to Vice President Biden, is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and...

Fed's Kashkari says low inflation affords 'luxury' of low rates

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Low inflation allows the Federal Reserve to keep U.S. interest rates lower for longer in order...

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Ana Maria Archila On Confronting Jeff Flake

Ana Maria Archila On Confronting Jeff Flake

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Ana Maria Archila of the Center for Popular Democracy about her widely-publicized...

Hundreds of Activists Occupy the Capitol to Stop Trumpcare

Hundreds of activists from around the country descended on Capitol Hill Wednesday to protest the GOP's latest assault...

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Charter Schools are Cheating Your Kids: New Report Reveals Massive Fraud, Mismanagement, Abuse

Salon - May 7, 2014, by Paul Rosenberg - Just in time for National Charter School Week, there’s a...

Report: In MN, Jobless Rate for Blacks is Nearly 4 Times Higher than Whites

Bring Me the News - March 5, 2015, by Adam Uren - Minnesota has the third-highest unemployment gap between white and...

Listen to Death Cab for Cutie’s New Anti-Trump Song “Million Dollar Loan”

Last year, Death Cab for Cutie released the album Kintsugi. Today, the band have put out a new song called “Million...

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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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