PNC Bank will no longer finance the private-prison industry
PNC Bank will no longer finance the private-prison industry
The Pittsburgh-based PNC Bank is the largest bank in Pennsylvania and operates banks in 19 states. PNC was a large...
The Pittsburgh-based PNC Bank is the largest bank in Pennsylvania and operates banks in 19 states. PNC was a large funding partner of CoreCivic, the second-largest private prison operator in the country. According to The Center for Popular Democracy, PNC provided CoreCivic with $112 million in credit commitments and a $28 million loan.
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Opinion: Ingrained racism is the reason Americans can’t have nice things
Opinion: Ingrained racism is the reason Americans can’t have nice things
Racism is central to Donald Trump’s brand of politics, but it is nothing new in America — its pervasiveness is arguably...
Racism is central to Donald Trump’s brand of politics, but it is nothing new in America — its pervasiveness is arguably one key reason America’s social policies are so reactionary compared to other rich nations, with millions lacking access to basic services like health care, child care, paid vacation, and so on.
Paul Krugman, the Nobel-winning economist and New York Times columnist, said in his keynote address at the Economic Policy Institute’s recent conference on “Taxing the (Very) Rich”: “Race is the reason the U.S. doesn’t look like other advanced countries in terms of a social-safety net.”
“It’s central to everything,” Krugman said in a speech that focused on the risks to not just the economy but also democracy itself from the hyper-concentration of wealth at the very top of the income ladder.
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Hispanics in America are under attack
The deadly mass shooting in El Paso this past weekend was an attack on a U.S. city that many of us call home. It is...
The deadly mass shooting in El Paso this past weekend was an attack on a U.S. city that many of us call home. It is also a city that has been one of the safest in the country for years, and it is now a city where there were almost as many murders Saturday morning as there were in all of last year. It is a city that is more than 80 percentLatino, including many immigrants. So let’s call Saturday’s heinous act of violence what it is: a carefully calculated and purposeful hate crime targeted at the Hispanic and immigrant community. It is an act of domestic terrorism.
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Puerto Rico’s New Governor Lobbied For Coal Utility That Poisoned Groundwater
Puerto Rico’s New Governor Lobbied For Coal Utility That Poisoned Groundwater
Pierluisi is highly problematic,” said Julio López Varona, a San Juan-based lawyer who works with the Center for...
Pierluisi is highly problematic,” said Julio López Varona, a San Juan-based lawyer who works with the Center for Popular Democracy, a think tank. “All of this signals that he would support more privatization and that the current debt deals being negotiated would potentially favor vultures.
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Spending Billions On Policing, Then Millions On Police Misconduct
Spending Billions On Policing, Then Millions On Police Misconduct
Kumar Rao of the Center for Popular Democracy was one of the authors of the report. “As a nation we’re spending over $...
Kumar Rao of the Center for Popular Democracy was one of the authors of the report. “As a nation we’re spending over $100 billion a year on policing and the vast bulk of that is actually at the local level,” he told The Appeal in June.
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Puerto Rico's Governor Resigns Friday Night. It's Still Not Clear Who Will Replace Him
Puerto Rico's Governor Resigns Friday Night. It's Still Not Clear Who Will Replace Him
Puerto Rican activist Julio López Varona, who works as an organizer for the New York-based Center for Popular Democracy...
Puerto Rican activist Julio López Varona, who works as an organizer for the New York-based Center for Popular Democracy––one of the groups behind the mass protests calling for Rosselló’s resignation — says Thursday’s hearings further illustrate the dysfunction within the Puerto Rican government.
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Pride flags and rate cuts: Fed loosens up to connect with average workers
Pride flags and rate cuts: Fed loosens up to connect with average workers
But it has long faced external pressure to keep rates low. Fed Up, an advocacy group started in 2014 and affiliated...
But it has long faced external pressure to keep rates low. Fed Up, an advocacy group started in 2014 and affiliated with the left-leaning Center for Popular Democracy, spent Ms. Yellen’s tenure pushing the central bank to hold off on raising rates so that unemployment could fall more.
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Police Brutality’s Cure Lies in National Policing Standards
Police Brutality’s Cure Lies in National Policing Standards
In “Building Momentum From the Ground Up: A Toolkit for Promoting Justice in Policing”, published by The Center for...
In “Building Momentum From the Ground Up: A Toolkit for Promoting Justice in Policing”, published by The Center for Popular Democracy in April 2015, we are provided 15 thoughtful methods to reform policing and criminal justice at the local and state level.
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Puerto Rico's Search for a New Social Order (Is Ours Too)
Puerto Rico's Search for a New Social Order (Is Ours Too)
The people of Puerto Rico are clear about what they want. Julio Lopez Varona, a lawyer and organizer with Center for...
The people of Puerto Rico are clear about what they want. Julio Lopez Varona, a lawyer and organizer with Center for Popular Democracy, says, “What we want to do is to use the energy of the moment to bring forward demands that really move into a Puerto Rico that is for Puerto Ricans.” This includes, as the Intercept’s Kate Aronoff reports, “protecting public services, auditing the debt, and declaring a state of emergency on gender violence.”
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Private Equity's Next Leveraged Buyout Might Be the Oval Office
Private Equity's Next Leveraged Buyout Might Be the Oval Office
According to a new report from the Center for Popular Democracy and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, PE is...
According to a new report from the Center for Popular Democracy and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, PE is responsible for destroying over…
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