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  1. Groups Charge $30 Million in Charter School Fraud, Call for Tougher Oversight

    ... put to much better use. "Do you know what that could get us? That could get us more teachers so our classrooms don't have 40 students, ... However "the report draws sweeping conclusions about the entire charter sector based on only 11 cited incidents in the course ...

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  2. New York Families Win $15 Minimum Wage

    ... “Our communities are tearing down barriers that keep us from sustaining our families, and today we see the fruit of their labor. The ... in poverty. We hope that governor Cuomo doesn't forget about the rest of the low-wage workers and that we also win $15 in the near ...

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  3. Charters Lack Sufficient Oversight

    ... as part of the cigarette tax deal. When I hear about fraudulent charter operators who steal tax dollars from Philadelphia's ... on new charter schools until all charter schools can assure us that they have appropriate fraud-prevention measures in place. We are asking ...

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  4. Hold the Fed Accountable: Opposing View

    USA Today - March 17, 2015, by Mark Weisbrot - Should the Federal Reserve raise ... African-American workers and lower-wage workers. Across the board, more unemployment translates very directly into more income inequality ... wages. Median household income in the U.S . is still down about 3% since the recession ended in mid-2009 . For the vast majority of ...

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  5. How Janet Yellen Is Embracing The Fed’s Role In Racial Justice

    ... — are an opportunity for the Fed chair to update lawmakers about the overall state of the economy. As part of the briefing, the Fed ... demographic groups,” she said. “It is important for us to be aware of those differences and to focus on them as we think about ...

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  6. Local leaders ask Obama to pardon criminal immigrants before Trump takes office

    ... trying to do is look for every avenue that’s available to us as elected officials to protect our young people and their families.” ... criminals. His transition team has yet to set forth details about which immigrants and which criminals. By Kate Morrissey Source ...

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  7. Jackson Hole Summit To Provide Forum For Policymakers Amid Market Turmoil

    ... times of solid  growth . When the Fed met in June,  US  oil prices had recovered to over $60 a barrel, and there had been a ... Yet the theory is still a useful framework to think about monetary policy. This year central bankers, finance ministers, academics ...

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  8. Don't Tinker with Md.'s Charter School Law

    ... recently, Ohio's Republican governor, John Kasich, spoke about the dire need to strengthen state regulation of charter schools to stem ... schools. Maryland's charter school law has protected us from the "worst-case scenarios" of financial mismanagement, persistently ...

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  9. Big Demand for NYC Municipal ID Cards

    ... program could become a model for municipal IDs in other U.S. cities, civil liberties advocates say. There are about 500,000 undocumented immigrants in New York City. “It remains to be ...

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  10. Aiming for new empowerment of black women

    ... be either and all,” she said. “Public policy has left us out of this area. We’re going to be guided by what we learn from experts. ... girls and young women of color” in the U.S. "This work is about dismantling the barriers that prevent them from realizing that potential ...

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