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CPD Annual Report 2016
During 2016, CPD and CPD Action grew significantly, in size, scale, and most importantly, impact.
The Full Employment Mandate of the Reserve: Its Origins and Importance
As we approach the 40th anniversary of the landmark Humphrey-Hawkins Act, this report underscores how the Federal Reserve’s full employment mandate has made the Fed more accountable to working people...
Freedom to Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security in Our Communities
Over the last 30 years, at both the national and local levels, governments have dramatically increased their spending on criminalization, policing, and mass incarceration while drastically cutting...
Cities for Citizenship 2016 Impact Report
The C4C initiative is premised on the idea that when municipal leaders develop and fund naturalization efforts to encourage eligible residents to apply for US citizenship, it produces substantial...
Justice for Sale: How Corporations Use Forced Arbitration to Exploit Working families
Over the last several decades, corporations have designed a method to exploit working families by forcing them to sign away their legal rights—unwittingly and without alternative—as a condition of...
Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
In 2014, the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) issued a report demonstrating that charter schools in 15 states—about one third of the states with charter schools—had reported over $100 million in...
The High Costs of Florida's Energy Infrastructure
The massive infrastructure required for the consumption, production and distribution of energy in Florida (including extraction sites, pipelines, compressor stations, and processing and refining...
Community Schools: Problem-Solving Machines, Roosevelt Middle School Case Study
Community schools implement evidence-based strategy to bring together the resources of school, family, and community in order to make schools stronger and help young people thrive. With a century-...
The $746 Million A Year School-to-Prison Pipeline
This report, released by the Center for Popular Democracy and Urban Youth Collaborative, reveals the staggering yearly economic impact of the school-to-prison pipeline in New York City, $746.8...
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