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Senate's Kavanaugh Vote Ends in Chaos After GOP Sen. Flake Asks for FBI Sex-Assault Probe

One day after Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford testified about her sexual assault allegations against the...

InStyle | Civic Engagement

Feds Accused of Selling Out Neighborhoods to Wall St. Firms

Aljazeera America Fault Lines Blog - September 9, 2014, by Mark Kurlyandchik - In September 2010, the federal...

Dallas Fed president will meet with Fed Up Coalition members to hear their concerns

After nearly two months on the job, the new head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas is reaching out to the community...

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Duggan on the Donald

Duggan on the Donald

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: National Federation of Independent Business President Juanita Duggan, fresh off her secret special...

Politico Influence | Restoring a Fair Workweek

At Rally Outside Jamie Dimon's Home, Immigrant Rights Advocates Demand #BackersOfHate Stop Bankrolling For-Profit Prisons

"Jamie Dimon, in the past two years, 22 people have died in detention centers that you finance," said Ana Maria Archila...

In A Moving Dialogue, Disabled Activist Confronted Jeff Flake About Tax Bill On His Plane Ride Home

IN OCTOBER 2016, Ady Barkan — a California-based activist at the Center for Popular Democracy — was diagnosed with ALS...

The Intercept | Civic Engagement

Fed Activists To Highlight Racial Justice At Jackson Hole Conference

The Fed Up campaign, a coalition of groups led by the nonprofit Center for Popular Democracy, will converge on Jackson...

New York City's Undocumented Immigrants Will Get Municipal IDs, Says Mayor De Blasio

Huffington Post - February 10, 2014 - New York City's undocumented immigrants will soon be able to obtain municipal ID...

Fed more upbeat on economy, unclear on timing of rate hike

The Federal Reserve offered a slightly more upbeat assessment of the economy but provided little insight into when it...

Fed Should Study Higher Inflation Target, Liberal Economists Say

A group of 22 progressive economists including Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz urged the Federal Reserve to appoint...

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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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