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Activists Deliver 750,000+ Petition Signatures Urging the Senate to Revoke Trump's National Emergency Declaration

The petition signatures were collected by CREDO, Public Citizen, Color Of Change, Win Without War, United We Dream,...

03/6/2019 | Common Dreams

Legislators urge state to 'double down' on funding for water infrastructure improvements

With a resolution passed Tuesday, Tompkins County legislators are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state leaders to "double...

03/6/2019 | The Ithaca Voice

Moms Celebrate That JPMorgan Chase Will No Longer "Bank the Private Prison Industry"

Members of MomsRising signed thousands of petitions and delivered letters to their local Chase bank branches from coast...

03/6/2019 | Latino Rebels | Holding Wall Street Accountable
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03/6/2019

The Marxist Roots of "Medicare for All"

The Marxist Roots of "Medicare for All"

Jayapal was surrounded by more than 100 supporters, many from groups such as National Nurses United, the Center for...

03/6/2019 | The Epoch Times | Civic Engagement

Following Pressure From Advocates, JPMorgan Chase Stops Financially Backing Private Prisons

"The country has seen the images of humans in cages and heard the cries of children begging to be reunited with their...

03/6/2019 | Market Screener | Civic Engagement, Holding Wall Street Accountable
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03/6/2019

Severance Pay Could Be The Next Big Progressive Labor Cause

Severance Pay Could Be The Next Big Progressive Labor Cause

The effort is backed by the Organization United for Respect, which has a history of organizing Walmart employees, and...

03/6/2019 | Dover Daily News

What Retail Workers Say About Technology Potentially Eliminating Their Jobs

Two out of three retail workers believe that technology will eventually replace some of their job responsibilities,...

03/5/2019 | Fortune | Restoring a Fair Workweek

"The Time for Medicare for All Has Come": Jayapal Unveils Visionary Bill to Remake US Healthcare System

Organizations and labor unions backing the bill—including Public Citizen, National Nurses United, Center for Popular...

03/5/2019 | Common Dreams | Civic Engagement
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03/5/2019

Stable work schedules mean better sleep for retail workers

Stable work schedules mean better sleep for retail workers

The researchers’ work was supported by grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Washington Center for Equitable...

03/5/2019 | UChicago News | Restoring a Fair Workweek

The Special Interests Behind Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Medicare for All Bill Are Not the Usual Suspects

The key outside groups involved in the drafting included nurses, doctors, disability rights activists, and advocates...

03/5/2019 | The Intercept | 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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