Archive: Center for American Progress

• WCP: The Education Campaign: Addressing Inequality through Teaching and Learning?

  Many Americans believe education is the cure for our nation's ills, but the Presidential candidates have been mostly quiet on the issue. In this week's Working-Class Perspectives post, Sherry Linkon

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: CAP, Center for American Progress, Economic Inequality, Education, Inequality, John Russo, Racial Inequality, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Jan 29, 2016)

  Did you play in the snow and neglect labor news this week? No worries, we've assembled some of the best labor stories for you to catch up on. Justice for faculty at Loyola! Following a contentious

  Category: In the News Tags: Bargaining for the Common Good, CAP, Center for American Progress, Child labor, Child Slave Labor, Coal Miners, Cole Strangler, Equal Pay, Faculty, Gender Gap, Loyola University Chicago, Overtime, SEIU, Shaun Richman, Slave Labor, Social Justice Unionism, Undocumented Immigrants, Undocumented students, US Senate

• Screening of Paycheck to Paycheck with GU Women's Center

  Join the Georgetown University Women’s Center for a special screening of HBO’s Paycheck to Paycheck as part of Women’s History Month. The documentary features single, low-income mother Katrina Gilbert as she tries to provide for her children on meager earnings.

  Category: Events Tags: Center for American Progress, National Women’s Law Center

• KI Hosts Talk with Union Leaders on Work-Life

  On February 25, 2011, the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and the Labor Project for Working Families sponsored a talk with new labor leaders to discuss steps unions are taking

  Category: Events Tags: AFL-CIO, Center for American Progress, Work-Life