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It’s true: HUD policy really does hurt our neighborhoods

HUD has a program that sells tens of thousands of troubled mortgages across the country, many in black and Latino...

Report Shows Unemployment Rate in Twin Cities 4x Higher for Blacks than Whites

InsightNews - March 18, 2015 - At a press conference and rally last week, NOC released a report as part of a national...

Who will win America's worst employer contest?

As pageants go, here's one whose contestants might want Steve Harvey to spare them the crown. The Center for Popular...

We’re onto the phony education reformers: Charter school charlatans and faux reformers take it on the chin

2015 will forever be remembered as the year the political establishment was shaken by the populist-driven presidential...

Immigrants, Advocates Rally For New York State Citizenship

CBS New York - June 16, 2014 - They are not U.S. citizens, but a plan is in the works to allow undocumented New Yorkers...

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Will Another White Big-Banker Oversee Wall Street?

Will Another White Big-Banker Oversee Wall Street?

“Fed Up, a coalition of community and labor groups, argues in a new report that this homogeneity creates blind spots,...

“We matter”: Dozens with pre-existing conditions stage D.C. sit-in over GOP health care bill

Marthella Johnson was born with one kidney. At a young age, the 42-year-old resident of Little Rock, Arkansas,...

One vote will turn America’s path away from liberal socialism

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2015 – What difference will my vote make? Too many will say: I am only one person. When asked why...

Why Are Homeowners Being Jailed for Demanding Wall Street Prosecutions?

A two-day long housing protest outside the Department of Justice this week has resulted in nearly 30 arrests and...

Celebs, supporters of Dream Act face off with anti-DACA protesters

For many DREAMERS, or undocumented young immigrants fighting to stay in the country, their battle could depend a lot on...

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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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