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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...
Reclaim, Reimagine, and Reinvest: Analysis of Los Angeles County's Criminalization Budget
Reclaim, Reimagine, and Reinvest: Analysis of Los Angeles County's Criminalization Budget
For too long, Los Angeles County (“the County”) has viewed public safety exclusively through a policing and incarceration lens and poured billions of limited public resources into failing solutions....
Wall Street's Border Wall: How Five Firms Stand to Benefit Financially from Anti-Immigrant Policy
Wall Street's Border Wall: How Five Firms Stand to Benefit Financially from Anti-Immigrant Policy
Donald Trump has made his call for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border a signature feature of his campaign for the presidency and his first year in office. A symbol of the rising tide of xenophobia...
A Practical Guide to Combatting Wage Theft: Lessons from the Field
The reality is that many employers commit wage theft with impunity. Increasing the consequences of wage theft for employers, improving the remedies available to workers, and strengthening wage theft...
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