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• How Unions Fight Social Exclusion in the Labor Market

  24 août 2018, par Amy Traub
  "Gentlemen, the Pullman Company is ready to sign." With that concession from the company president on August 25, 1937, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters became the first black labor union to win a collective bargaining agreement with a major American corporation. read (...)

• Voting Rights Groups Sue Arizona Secretary of State, Nine Months after Providing Notice of Violations of Federal Law

  20 août 2018, par Rebecca Pace
  Release Date: August 20, 2018 PHOENIX−Voting rights organizations filed a lawsuit against Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan on Saturday, nine months after notifying her office of significant federal voting rights violations. read (...)

• Puerto Ricans : Have You Experienced Any Problems When Registering to Vote ?

  20 août 2018
  ProPublica | Jess Ramirez and María Sánchez Díez A lawsuit filed Thursday claims that Puerto Ricans living in Florida who have limited English proficiency will be prevented from voting because, according to a press release by the advocacy group Demos, “elections in many parts of the state are (...)

• Voting Rights Advocates Sue to Bring Bilingual Elections to 32 Florida Counties

  16 août 2018, par Shanae Bass
  Release Date: August 16, 2018 Gainesville, FL – Today, civic engagement groups Faith in Florida, Hispanic Federation, Mi Familia Vota Education Fund, UnidosUS, and Vamos4PR, and individual voter Marta Rivera filed suit against Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner and the Supervisors of (...)

• Florida Officials Are Breaking The Law By Not Offering Spanish Ballots, Suit Claims

  16 août 2018
  The Huffington Post | Sam Levine Stuart Naifeh, a lawyer with the think tank Demos, which is representing Rivera and five nonprofit groups that work to mobilize Spanish-speaking voters, said they chose the 32 counties using census data to identify places where there were high concentrations of (...)

• Latino civil rights groups sue 32 Florida counties for not providing bilingual voting material

  16 août 2018
  NBC News | Carmen Sesin As the November midterm elections approach, several civic engagement groups filed a suit, on Thursday, against the Florida Secretary of State and 32 Florida counties for what they say is a violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, requiring bilingual voting materials (...)

• Demos urges CMS to Withdraw Proposed Rule on Reassignment of Medicaid Provider Claims

  15 août 2018 — Advocacy Letter
  August 13, 2018 https://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Demos%20Home%20Care%20Worker%20Comment%202018.pdf Author: Amy Traub Dear Ms. Verma: I am writing on behalf of Demos to urge you to withdraw the proposed rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and (...)

• Is Racial Hatred More or Less Empowered One Year After Charlottesville ?

  14 août 2018
  WDET 101.9 FM | Stephen Henderson Heather McGhee is distinguished senior fellow with Demos, a New York based public policy think tank, and an expert on race and inequality. She joins Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson to give her thoughts on what we’ve learned — and what we haven’t learned — (...)

• Democratic and Republican voters agree that America faces a student-debt crisis

  11 août 2018
  Market Watch | Jillian Berman But the poll released this week suggests the debate is going on separately from how Americans experience student debt, said Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst at Demos, a left-leaning think tank. And indeed, there are many reasons why voters may be feeling (...)

• US government failing millions by paying below $15 an hour, study finds

  10 août 2018
  The Guardian | Mike Elk Union groups and other campaigners see such moves as an attack on their power to secure higher wages for workers. “[This is] an often low-paid and vulnerable workforce of predominantly women of color who do critical work helping seniors and people with disabilities with (...)

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