Selling Off Our Freedom: How Insurance Corporations Have Taken Over Our Bail System
This report tells the rarely heard and even less understood story of how the bail industry has corrupted our constitutional freedoms for profit: the freedom from exploitation in bail, the guarantee of being recognized as innocent until proven guilty, and the guarantee of the equal application of the law to all people.
NCF Joins the Ban the Box Philanthropy Challenge
On February 29, 2016, the Nathan Cummings Foundation joined more than 40 other members of the Executives’ Alliance for Boys and Men of Color in the “Ban the Box Philanthropy Challenge,” a pledge to adopt fair chance hiring practices. The Foundation does not ask questions about any criminal records on our application forms for potential …
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Who Pays: The True Cost of Incarceration on Families
Each year, the United States spends $80 billion to lock away more than 2.4 million people in its jails and prison – budgetary allocations that outpace spending on housing, transportation and higher eduction.
Gap To End On-Call Scheduling For Workers
Gap Inc. announced Wednesday that it would end on-call scheduling for employees at its stores by the end of September, making it the latest retailer to drop a practice increasingly seen as unfriendly to working families. In a post on a company blog, Andi Owen, global president for Banana Republic, said Gap Inc.’s various brands had been …
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Court backs Obama on minimum wage, overtime for home health aides
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit handed a victory to the Obama administration on Friday, ruling that the Department of Labor can make home-care providers eligible for the minimum wage and overtime pay.The three-judge panel on the federal court of appeals reversed the decision of a lower court, stating that the administration’s …
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With victory in L.A., the $15 minimum wage fight goes national
On Labor Day last year, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti went to a celebration in a park on the south end of the city and announced what he called “the largest anti-poverty program in the city’s history”: boosting the minimum wage to $13.25 per hour by 2017. It was an ambitious move for a town …
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Saqib Bhatti: Chicagoans Need a Financial Plan That Puts Neighborhoods First
On Tuesday night, Chicago voters reelected Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a race that was widely perceived as a showdown between the neoliberal and progressive wings of the Democratic Party. However, the election outcome should not be seen as a rejection of a real progressive agenda with alternatives to austerity. Emanuel defeated Jesus “Chuy” Garcia at …
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An Invisible Workforce: Home Care Workers Are Highly Valued but Overworked and Underpaid
Latin Post recently spoke to Ai-jen Poo, the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and lead organizer and founder of Domestic Workers United, an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers and elderly caregivers in New York. And Ai-jen Poo is also the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur “Genius” Award and organizer of …
The Worst Paying Fastest-growing Job in America
At the signing ceremony, Brown said that the legislation—expected to bring paid sick leave to most of the 6.5 million Californians currently without it—“helps people—whether it’s a person working at a car wash or McDonald’s or 7-Eleven.” Well there’s one group of people it doesn’t help: home health care workers… Read More
Why Jews Should Care About What Happened in Ferguson
Stosh Cotler, the CEO of NCF Grantee Bend the Arc, has written a powerful commentary in the Washington Post about why the Jewish community should care about what’s happening in Ferguson, especially as we head into the month of the Jewish high holidays. Read the Article Here