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Community Schools: Transforming Struggling Schools into Thriving Schools
For at least a decade, the dominant idea about how to improve outcomes for children and youth has focused on control and compliance; holding adults accountable for raising test scores. This approach...
Combatting Wage Theft with the Maryland Paystub Transparency Act of 2016
Wage theft, or the illegal nonpayment of earned wages and benefits, affects millions of workers across the country and amounts to an estimated $50 billion in lost wages annually. The Center for...
State Takeovers of Low-Performing Schools: A Record of Academic Failure, Financial Mismanagement & Student Harm
Low-performing public schools have become a critical battleground between corporate-backed initiatives that remove local control of schools and favor the privatization of public education, and...
"To Represent the Public": The Federal Reserve's Continued Failure to Represent the American People
"To Represent the Public": The Federal Reserve's Continued Failure to Represent the American People
The boards of directors of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks are important decision-makers and influencers of national monetary policy. Designed to bring voices from diverse economic perspectives to the...
Whose Opportunity? Profiting Off of School Turnaround and Takeover in Atlanta
The “Opportunity School District” (“OSD”) is a proposed, statewide takeover district that would allow the state to seize control of up to 100 “failing” schools for between five and 10 years. This is...
Data Brief: Retail Jobs Today
“Retail salesperson” is now the most common occupation in the country. One in ten workers – over 16 million people – are employed in retail, and the industry is projected to continue keeping pace...
By A Thousand Cuts: The Complex Face of Wage Theft in New York
An estimated 2.1 million New Yorkers are victims of wage theft annually, cheated out of a cumulative $3.2 billion in wages and benefits they are owed.1 In recent years—at least as far back as the...
Building Identity: A Toolkit for Designing and Implementing a Successful Municipal ID Program
Building Identity: A Toolkit for Designing and Implementing a Successful Municipal ID Program
For many residents, municipal ID cards provide meaningful access to civic and economic life that they simply would not otherwise have. Municipal IDs are identification cards issued by, or with the...
Seeding Justice: Revenue-generating membership and fundraising canvasses for community organizing: Lessons from the field
In the fall of 2013, the Center for Popular Democracy and CPD Action (CPD/CPDA) launched the Sustainability Initiative in order to explore with our partners across the country various costeffective...
The Grind: Striving for Scheduling Fairness at Starbucks
A 2015 nationwide survey of Starbucks workers reveals that the company is not living up to its commitment to provide predictable, sustainable schedules to its workforce. Starbucks’ frontline...
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