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Trapped In Part-Time: Walmart’s Phantom Ladder of Opportunity
Walmart drives working conditions in retail. Walmart’s size is unparalleled: with 1.5 million American workers, the company is the largest corporate employer and the largest low-wage employer in the...
Pain and Profit After Maria: Companies Taking Puerto Rico by Storm
Five months after Hurricane Maria, and amid a continuing austerity crisis, conditions in Puerto Rico remain dire.
Bankrolling Oppression: How Wall Street Companies Finance the Private Prison and Immigrant Detention Industry
The private prison and immigrant detention industry profits off of the pain of communities and the separation of families. As the Trump administration continues to advance policies that further...
From Failure to Freedom: Dismantling Milwaukee's School-to-Prison Pipeline with the Youth Power Agenda
The systemic criminalization of youth of color, youth with disabilities, and youth of color with disabilities in schools is one of the most blatant and egregious examples of structural racism and...
10 Years After: the Financial Crisis and the New York Federal Reserve District
This report marks the 10-year anniversary of the global financial crisis that threatened the stability of the financial system and resulted in severe and protracted economic hardship for communities...
National Survey of Retail Workers: Key Insights for Workforce Development
As the nation’s largest private employer, retail is a significant driver of both national and regional economies and employs 10 percent of the private sector workforce.
Working People Still Need a Voice at the Fed: 2018 Diversity Analysis of Federal Reserve Bank Directors
In 2016 the Center for Popular Democracy’s Fed Up campaign published “To Represent the Public: The Federal Reserve’s Continued Failure to Represent the American People.” The report uncovered a...
Deepening Our Democracy: How Localities Can Expand Voting Rights
American democracy is at a crossroads. To deliver on the promise of a representative, inclusive democracy, our electoral system must provide every American the opportunity to meaningfully participate...
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