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Pressley, Omar, Bass, and Lee Introduce Resolution to Condemn Police Brutality and Demand Nationwide Reforms

The resolution is also endorsed by several advocacy groups including the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human...

05/29/2020 | Common Dreams
[created] | Published by: MinnPost
05/28/2020

Minnesota’s other racial disparity: voting

Minnesota’s other racial disparity: voting

A 2015 report by the Center for Popular Democracy found the gap to be second worst among states in the nation, only...

05/28/2020 | MinnPost
[created] | Published by: New York Magazine
05/26/2020

Walmart Workers Are Dying From Coronavirus. Now They Want a Seat at the Table.

Walmart Workers Are Dying From Coronavirus. Now They Want a Seat at the Table.

A joint report from UFR and the Center for Popular Democracy further outlines their case: Walmart’s current overlords...

05/26/2020 | New York Magazine
[created] | Published by: The Intercept
05/22/2020

New York City and Los Angeles Slash Budgets — but Not for Police

New York City and Los Angeles Slash Budgets — but Not for Police

“As a country, we are continuously increasing the amount of spending that we do on policing and criminalization, and...

05/22/2020 | The Intercept
[created] | Published by: The New York Times
05/14/2020

The Pandemic Helped Topple Two Retailers. So Did Private Equity.

The Pandemic Helped Topple Two Retailers. So Did Private Equity.

Last July, a report from the Center for Popular Democracy, a progressive advocacy group based in Brooklyn, said that 10...

05/14/2020 | The New York Times
[created] | Published by: Thomson Reuters Foundation
05/13/2020

Pressure mounts to help U.S. renters amid corona

Pressure mounts to help U.S. renters amid corona

housing for the past 50 years, the impact that most of us can remember is the foreclosure crisis (after the 2008-09...

05/13/2020 | Thomson Reuters Foundation
[created] | Published by: Crooked Media
05/12/2020

COVID without papers

COVID without papers

Then he speaks with Ana Maria Archila co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy about how COVID19 is...

05/12/2020 | Crooked Media
[created] | Published by: The Nation
05/8/2020

‘Mass Unemployment Is a Policy Choice’

‘Mass Unemployment Is a Policy Choice’

That final component is vital because, as Jennifer Epps-Addison, the co-executive director at the Center for Popular...

05/8/2020 | The Nation
[created] | Published by: Investment Watch
04/30/2020

FEMA Orders another 100,000 Body Bags For Coronavirus “Worst-Case” Scenario

FEMA Orders another 100,000 Body Bags For Coronavirus “Worst-Case” Scenario

The protest was organized in part by the Center for Popular Democracy, and its participants are “angry at Trump, but...

04/30/2020 | Investment Watch
[created] | Published by: The American Prospect
04/30/2020

The Renters’ Revolution

The Renters’ Revolution

Initiated by the Action Center on Race and the Economy, the organizing sponsors include the union-backed Jobs With...

04/30/2020 | The American Prospect

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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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