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- Committee Vote Sends President Obama’s Secretary of Labor Nominee Tom Perez to Full Senate May 21, 2013
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Tag Archives: low-income people
For-Profit Colleges Still Failing to Do Right by Its Students
Good news on states holding for-profits accountable for deceptive practices: Continue reading
Posted in Civil and Human Rights News
Tagged discrimination, education, for-profits, higher education, low-income people, veterans, women
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Cornel West and Tavis Smiley Talk Attacks on Voting Rights & Poverty
Cornel West and Tavis Smiley on Attacks on Voting Rights & Poverty Continue reading
Posted in Media and Culture
Tagged child poverty, discrimination, low-income people, poverty, voter id, voting rights
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Michelle Alexander Talks Ending the War on Drugs on the Colbert Report
Civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander was on the Colbert Report last night to talk about her book, “The New Jim Crow.” Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Justice, Humor and Satire
Tagged criminal justice, discrimination, inequality, low-income people, racism, War on Drugs
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Tax Program Helps Low-Income Families; Alabama Unrelenting on Anti-Immigrant Law; Convicted Defendants Not Informed about Faulty Evidence
Compiled by Wally McElwain, a Spring 2012 intern at The Leadership Conference Education Fund Antipoverty Tax Program Offers Relief, Though Often Temporary Sabrina Tavernise New York Times Every April, thousands of low-income families eagerly await a much needed tax return … Continue reading
Low-Income People Pay More State Taxes Than Richest 1 Percent
Infographic about the relative state tax burdens of the bottom 20 percent of earners and the top 1 percent. Continue reading
Hundreds Make ‘Pilgrimage’ for New Transit Line and Local Jobs in Baltimore
By Colleen Cowgill, a Fall 2011 intern More than 400 people recently gathered on a Saturday for a ‘pilgrimage’ along part of a new Baltimore transit line, which is predicted to begin construction in 2015. Co-sponsored by The Leadership Conference … Continue reading
Posted in Civil and Human Rights News
Tagged jobs, low-income people, transportation
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Jay Smooth on Occupy Wall Street
Jay Smooth’s video on Occupy Wall Street. Continue reading
Posted in Media and Culture
Tagged economy, inequality, low-income people, Occupy Wall Street
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