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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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Fast-food Labor Expands Scope of Fight for $15
... professors. "This fight is a fight about racial justice and economic justice," Charlene Carruthers, national ... of black activists ranging in age from 18 to 35. "For us, the Fight for 15 is also a fight for our lives," Carruthers said. "When we ...
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Open Letter to the Governor of Puerto Rico Ricardo Roselló
... right to protest were met with state violence through the use of tear gas and violence at the hands of the police. Images captured at the ... Sincerely, 215 People Alliance 32BJ SEIU About Face: Veterans Against the War Action Center for Race and the Economy ...
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This Small City Has a Plan to Fight the Silicon Valley Housing Crisis
... she says. “Because it is unjust what they did to us.” She wants rent control so her family “won’t have to worry about the rent suddenly going up again.” At a time when the real-estate ...
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Senator Warren, 100+ Members of Congress Call For Diverse Federal Reserve
05.12.2016 WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and U.S. Representative John Conyers ... Democratic members of Congress asked Chair Yellen questions about racial disparities in the economy and lack of diverse leadership in Fed ... February, 2016, 83 percent of Federal Reserve head office board members are white, and men occupy nearly three-fourths of all regional ...
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Fed Hawk Lacker to Retire Oct. 1, Successor Search Under Way
... every meeting in 2012. During the financial crisis he warned about channeling credit to specific sectors of the economy, inflation risks and ... and the expectations it encourages will come back to haunt us.” The Fed’s preferred inflation measure, the personal consumption ...
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Drawing Undocumented Immigrants Out of The Shadows
USA Today - July 17, 2014, by Jake Grovum - With federal immigration bills ... of the momentum is that some Republicans are getting on board. Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who took a hard line on illegal immigration ... care program for the poor — would surely raise questions about whether federal money is being used to care for people who are in the ...
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The Actions of the Federal Reserve Bank Have Created an Economy That Hurts Workers And Has Devastated The Black Community
... to African-American communities because “hundreds of U.S. cities have streets named for Martin Luther King Jr., often located in ... the Fed’s goal of keeping the national employment rate at about 5.2 percent—which the Fed considers “full employment” because it ...
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At Unprecedented Meeting, Fed Officials Voice Support for Activists’ Issues
... when confronting Fed officials’ statement that the U.S. is near full employment. “I don’t want to be sacrificed for a war ... get the analysis, you can make a difference. When you speak about how bad the problem is it’s a much less effective tool,” the former ...
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Minneapolis Fed chief Neel Kashkari calls some racial disparity 'a crisis'
... On Wednesday, the meeting happened. Kashkari sat down with about a dozen people at NOC’s offices in north Minneapolis and committed to ... unemployment. “There’s something structural in the U.S. economy, in good times and bad, that black unemployment is almost always ...
