The NPQ kicks off the 2021-22 season of our Redo the economy series in Indian country. In partnership with the First Nations Development Institute (“First Nations”), we bring three Indigenous economic justice leaders to speak about their work and the challenges they face in a discussion format. Our panelists are: Heather Fleming (Navajo) is Executive […]
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Brattleboro is one of more than 70 spiritual communities that are part of Vermont Interfaith Action. Photo by Kevin O’Connor / VTDigger As Executive Director of Vermont Interfaith ActionDebbie Ingram knows that the 15,000 Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim members of her grassroots organizing group outnumber what the last […]
Sir, – Over the past 18 months, Covid has taught us, more than ever, the importance of public sector services. Yet across the world, brutal and inefficient public sector wage cuts are hurting the very sectors that governments claim to want to protect. This week, the 2021 annual meetings of the World Bank Group and […]
Albuquerque, New Mexico is an ideal place to host this next ASES conference. It is home to the New Mexico Solar Energy Association (NMSEA), the New Mexico chapter of ASES, which is excited to celebrate 50 years of achievement. NMSEA is a non-profit association dedicated to the advancement of solar and related arts, sciences and […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WREX) – Democrats in Illinois focused on economic and racial justice for the third day of the virtual Democratic National Convention. The delegation says the murders of black men and women this year and the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on communities of color have rolled back the curtain of injustice in the nation. […]
COUDERSPORT, Pa .– A Way Out, the Potter County Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services, offers two free economic justice courses, one starting in October and one starting in November. One form of domestic violence that is often overlooked is economic and financial violence, said Jennifer Rossmann, sexual violence advisor. She said economic and financial […]
Deputy Attorney General Vanita Gupta on Tuesday described the Biden administration’s emphasis on aggressive antitrust enforcement in terms of economic justice, denouncing the consolidation of key sectors of the economy as detrimental to consumers and workers. Gupta, whose portfolio includes overseeing the antitrust division of the US Department of Justice, told a virtual audience at […]
The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying recession have made advocacy for economic justice more urgent than ever. Although there are signs of a strong economic recovery, the gains made have been slow to reach much. Millions of people in California are unemployed or underemployed, and it is likely that take years for recovery to reach some […]
The governors of 26 states have already ended additional federal unemployment benefits, and the rest are expected to expire in early September, unless Congress takes action to extend them. (Creative Commons) After more than a year of dealing with the economic fallout caused by COVID-19, several things have become clear: the pandemic has disproportionately affected […]
What is the most successful economic justice movement of the past decade? The fight for $ 15. In 2012, a handful of New York City fast food workers quit their jobs for a day, demanding that their hourly wages be raised to $ 15, a barely generous sum for anyone living in the Big Apple. […]