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Feeding the Beast: A scope of federal funding for state and local law enforcement

Each year, the federal government sends billions of dollars in funding, equipment, and other resources to state and local law enforcement.

12/9/2020 | Justice Transformation

Unemployed, Unhoused, and Unhelped: COVID-19’s Devastating Toll on Pennsylvania’s Latinx Communities

Pennsylvania’s communities of color and immigrant communities are being hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

10/19/2020 | Protecting Immigrant Communities

Pandemic Profiteers: Under Trump Michigan Billionaire Wealth Soars, Local Communities Suffer

While communities across Michigan have been ravaged by the health and economic crises created by Trump’s botched COVID-19 response, the state’s billionaires have actually increased their collective...

10/13/2020 | Holding Wall Street Accountable

Pandemic Profiteers: New Jersey's Corporations and Wealthiest Individuals Reap Billions While Local Communities Suffer

New Jersey is facing unprecedented economic and public health crises as a result of COVID–19. Communities across the state need resources now more than ever. By some estimates, it will take at least...

08/24/2020 | Holding Wall Street Accountable

Nevada’s Excluded Communities: Key Findings from a COVID-19 Community Impact Survey

Nevada’s communities of color and immigrant communities are being hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Against the backdrop of Nevada’s rising COVID-19 cases, Make the Road Nevada launched an impact...

08/1/2020

Is the Federal Reserve Neglecting Black Workers in the Economic Rescue?

The United States is experiencing a surge of activism not seen for decades as communities demand accountability in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis.

07/24/2020 | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

Justice in the Balance: What’s at Stake with This Supreme Court

Every June, the United States Supreme Court issues its final decisions for the term. These decisions have far reaching impacts on people throughout U.S. society.

06/26/2020 | Federal Advocacy: Fighting Back & Fighting Forward

The Federal Reserve is a Public Institution but is it Built to Represent the Public? 2020 Analysis of Diversity and Public Representation

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.

06/25/2020 | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

Aiming to Underachieve: How a Federal Reserve Lending Program for Local Governments is Designed to Fall Short

Local governments are facing an unprecedented public health and economic crisis as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

06/14/2020 | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

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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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