Press Clips | April 11, 2023

COVID created an expanded social safety net; activists are now quietly working to bring it back

Via: News Tribune

Emergency paid sick and family leave, modernizing and expanding unemployment insurance, monthly tax payments to families with children and expanded(…)

News Releases | April 7, 2023

March Jobs Report: Many Jobless Workers Excluded from Unemployment Insurance

Congress must act to build an unemployment insurance system that will support all workers at all times.

Press Clips | April 4, 2023

California bill would ban most criminal background checks

Via: HR Dive

As of 2021, 37 states and more than 150 cities and counties have adopted ban-the-box laws.

Blog | April 3, 2023

Hustling Against Criminalization and Its Employment

Black women, Black femmes, and Black queers in New Orleans hustle as a culture of resistance.

Press Clips | March 31, 2023

Opinion: We need a $21.25 minimum wage

Via: City & State

The Raise the Wage Act, sponsored by state Sen. Jessica Ramos and Assembly Member Latoya Joyner, would increase the minimum wage to $21.25 by 2027 and(…)

Press Clips | March 30, 2023

COVID created an expanded social safety net; activists are now quietly working to bring it back

Via: The Fulcrum

The government’s pandemic interventions had meaningful effects. After the child tax credit expanded in 2021, child poverty fell from 9.7% in 2020(…)

News Releases | March 28, 2023

POWER ACT Would Strengthen Immigrant Worker Power & Raise Workplace Standards for All Workers

The bill would ensure that immigrant workers can assert their workplace rights without fear of immigration-based retaliation.

Press Clips | March 22, 2023

The minimum wage fight that will define the decade

Via: Politico

After inflation rocketed upward last year, those pushing for higher minimum wages see a new opening to gain ground on(…)

Press Clips | March 13, 2023

Child Labor in the US: Despite Laws, Kids Work in Agriculture, Fast Food, Industry

Via: Teen Vogue

Child labor is not a relic of the past.

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