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...
A new report examines how rent control promotes community stability. The release of “Our Homes, Our Future” comes as state lawmakers debate expanding tenant protections, including the expansion of rent control outside the New York City area. But the report – made through a collaboration between PolicyLink, the Center for Popular Democracy, and the Right To The City Alliance – takes a broader look, beyond the policy debates of the Empire State.
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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-...
The letter from Durham City Councilmember Javiera Caballero and Mecklenburg County Commissioner Susan Rodriguez-McDowell was sent to the media in a release from Local Progress, a project from the larger organization Popular Democracy.
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...
This means a Medicare for All program would need to be implemented as quickly as possible. Advocates with the Center for Popular Democracy told ThinkProgress in January they were pushing for a faster transition period because they wanted the president who signs the Medicare for All bill into law to be the one who oversees implementation.
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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 isn't the only way to fix the current housing crisis. But it is one of the easiest. A new report from advocacy groups the Right to the City Alliance, Center for Popular Democracy and PolicyLink find that universal rent control would help 42 million households if implemented across the U.S.
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House Progressives To Unveil The Most Ambitious ‘Medicare For All’ Bill Yet
House Progressives To Unveil The Most Ambitious ‘Medicare For All’ Bill Yet
Jennifer Epps-Addison, the president of the Center for Popular Democracy Action, which organizes low-income communities...
Jennifer Epps-Addison, the president of the Center for Popular Democracy Action, which organizes low-income communities of color and is backing the legislation, said that even though she and her husband had decent employer-sponsored coverage, his multiple sclerosis diagnosis three years ago turned their world “upside down.” They struggle to afford their out-of-pocket health care costs, she said, particularly now that her husband is out of work.
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Democrats Are Introducing Medicare-for-All With Actual Outside Support
Democrats Are Introducing Medicare-for-All With Actual Outside Support
Some of other new groups backing the bill say their interest comes because Democrats are now on the offense. Jennifer...
Some of other new groups backing the bill say their interest comes because Democrats are now on the offense. Jennifer Epps-Addison, the president and co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, a progressive advocacy organization, explains that the fight to save the Affordable Care Act during 2017 and the 2018 midterm elections had been her group’s chief focus over the last several years.
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The Five Key Mistakes Amazon Made
By the time the dust settled, national and local groups including the Action Center on Race and the Economy, the Center...
By the time the dust settled, national and local groups including the Action Center on Race and the Economy, the Center for Popular Democracy, Demand Progress, Good Jobs First, Jobs with Justice, the Partnership for Working Families, SumOfUs, ALIGN NY, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, DRUM – Desis Rising Up and Moving, Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice had all lined up against it.
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"The Time for Medicare for All Has Come": Jayapal Unveils Visionary Bill to Remake US Healthcare System
"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...
Organizations and labor unions backing the bill—including Public Citizen, National Nurses United, Center for Popular Democracy, Business Initiative for Health Policy, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)—say that it has set a new bar for single-payer legislation in Congress, and that no one who believes in creating an affordable and universal system of care should settle for anything less.
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What Retail Workers Say About Technology Potentially Eliminating Their Jobs
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,...
Two out of three retail workers believe that technology will eventually replace some of their job responsibilities, underscoring the rising concern about the impact of automation and cutting-edge technology on the workplace.
That’s according to a new survey Thursday by The Fair Workweek Initiative, a project spawned from the non-profit labor-monitoring groups The Center for Popular Democracy and Organization United for Respect.
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The Special Interests Behind Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Medicare for All Bill Are Not the Usual Suspects
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...
The key outside groups involved in the drafting included nurses, doctors, disability rights activists, and advocates for the elderly, as well as public interest organizations such as Public Citizen and the Center for Popular Democracy.
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