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Our Homes, Our Future: How Rent Control Can Build Stable, Healthy Communities

Amid the worst renter crisis in a generation, it is time for policymakers to respond to the call for rent control to protect tenants from skyrocketing rents and displacement.

02/27/2019 | Organizing for Housing Justice & A Home to Thrive

Expanding Voter Registration in High Schools: A Toolkit for Local Leaders

American democracy is at a crossroads. More than a decade of attacks on voting rights and democratic participation—from Shelby County v. Holder to restrictive state voter ID laws—have undermined core...

02/21/2019 | Fighting for an Inclusive Democracy

The Urgent Need For A More Publicly Representative Fed: 2019 Diversity Analysis of Federal Reserve Bank Directors

The Center for Popular Democracy’s Fed Up Campaign conducts an annual analysis of the gender, racial, and occupational diversity of the Federal Reserve system’s leadership.

02/18/2019 | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

Fired on a Whim: The Precarious Existence of NYC Fast-Food Workers

One fast-food worker was fired for not smiling enough. Another was summarily dismissed for having long nails. A third was fired for arriving late once, which was due to her struggle to address...

02/12/2019

Bad Deal, Bad Company, Bad Billionaire: How Proposed Taxpayer Subsidies for Amazon HQ2 Can Still Be Stopped

On November 13, 2018, Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, and Amazon.com, Inc. announced that the e-commerce giant would seek to build a massive corporate hub (part of what they originally billed as...

12/19/2018 | Holding Wall Street Accountable

Forced Arbitration Clauses in the #MeToo Movement

12/18/2018 | Forced Arbitration: A Corporate Attack on Workers’ Rights

Advancing Universal Representation: A Toolkit

The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), and the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) work together to expand the national movement for publicly funded...

12/15/2018 | Protecting Immigrant Communities

CPD Annual Report 2017

The election of Donald Trump was a body blow to our country, our movement, and our values. Foundational commitments to opportunity, democracy, equity and fairness face deep threats, as unprecedented...

10/31/2018

America is Home: How Individuals, Families, Cities & Counties Benefit by Investing in Citizenship

Cities for Citizenship (C4C) is a major national initiative aimed at increasing citizenship among eligible U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents and encouraging cities across the country to invest in...

09/12/2018

When Disaster Happens: A Policy Guide for Climate Resettlement

In the year since Hurricane Maria, residents in Puerto Rico have fought to rebuild, despite a shamefully inadequate federal response.

08/29/2018 | Organizing for a Just Recovery in Puerto Rico and Beyond, Organizing for Environmental Justice

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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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