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"People Power Beats Corporate Greed": After Years of Pressure, JPMorgan Agrees to Divest from Private Prisons

Make the Road NY, the Center for Popular Democracy, and New York Communities for Change were among the organizations...

03/5/2019 | Common Dreams | Civic Engagement, Holding Wall Street Accountable
[created] | Published by: Next City
03/5/2019

Oregon Now Has Statewide Rent Control, Push Continues Across Country

Oregon Now Has Statewide Rent Control, Push Continues Across Country

The report, called Our Homes, Our Future: How Rent Control Can Build Stable, Healthy Communities, is the work of the...

[created] | Published by: Fox Seattle, WA
03/5/2019

Tenant groups rally at state Capitol to push for rent control

Tenant groups rally at state Capitol to push for rent control

PolicyLink, the Right to the City Alliance and the Center for Popular Democracy recently released a report that found...

[created] | Published by: Orlando Sentinel
03/5/2019

Central Florida 100: Legislature, Rosen and the search for a UCF leader

Central Florida 100: Legislature, Rosen and the search for a UCF leader

Last week: Justice for Renters: Florida is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis. A report released last week by...

03/5/2019 | Orlando Sentinel | Organizing for Housing Justice & A Home to Thrive
[created] | Published by: Chicago Sun Times
03/5/2019

Rent control gains momentum after Chicago voters again give it thumbs up

Rent control gains momentum after Chicago voters again give it thumbs up

The push for rent control is nationwide. Oregon passed the country’s first statewide rent control law this week. A...

03/5/2019 | Chicago Sun Times | Organizing for Housing Justice & A Home to Thrive
[created] | Published by: CBS News
03/5/2019

Rent control could be coming to more states after Oregon

Rent control could be coming to more states after Oregon

Rent control isn't the only way to fix the current housing crisis. But it is one of the easiest. A new report from...

Rent Control The Best Way To Stabilize Housing Costs, Says New Report

The new report “Our Homes Our Future,” by PolicyLink Right to the City Alliance and Center for Popular Democracy, says...

[created] | Published by: New York Nonprofit Media
03/5/2019

How rent control promotes community stability

How rent control promotes community stability

A new report examines how rent control promotes community stability. The release of “Our Homes, Our Future” comes as...

03/5/2019 | New York Nonprofit Media | Organizing for Housing Justice & A Home to Thrive
[created] | Published by: Chapelboro.com
03/5/2019

Local, Federal Officials Still Seeking Answers, Support for Condemning ICE

Local, Federal Officials Still Seeking Answers, Support for Condemning ICE

The letter from Durham City Councilmember Javiera Caballero and Mecklenburg County Commissioner Susan Rodriguez-...

03/5/2019 | Chapelboro.com
[created] | Published by: ThinkProgress
03/5/2019

Here’s what the Democrats’ new Medicare for All bill would do

Here’s what the Democrats’ new Medicare for All bill would do

This means a Medicare for All program would need to be implemented as quickly as possible. Advocates with the Center...

03/5/2019 | ThinkProgress | 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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