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The first emergency we need to combat is Trump’s presidency. The emergency status of that issue is not a self created phony political stunt. It’s far too real.
Analysis | What exactly is a national emergency? Here’s what that means and what happens next.
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President Trump has declared the border an "emergency" to give him the power to use government funds to build his border wall.Rep. Banks: Here’s who would benefit from an increase in the minimum wage in your state. drive.google.com/a/adaction.org/file/d/1wFpo48yUHf3hXpYGJVllQGMJEDdkejvQ/view?usp=drivesdk
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“You should not have two jobs in the United States and nowhere to sleep.”
- Terrence Wise, a fast food worker from Kansas City
#RaisetheWage
Increasing the minimum wage = more money in more pockets which = more money flowing into communities. And when communities prosper, so does the economy. 💵💵
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-24/u-s-economy-higher-minimum-wages-haven-t-increased-...
Labor Market Is Doing Fine With Higher Minimum Wages
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Predictions of job losses and slower economic growth haven’t panned out.Would you work 10 years without a raise?
That’s what Congress is asking workers to do.
Tell your Senator to #RaisetheWage.
New maps from @OxfamAmerica
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Minimum wage map | Oxfam America
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Ten Years Without a Raise The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 for ten years. That’s $290 a week, $15,000 a year. In that time, the cost of living has continued to climb, leaving millions of families working harder than ever, but falling behind. We can do better. The Raise the Wage Act...Trickle-down economics caters to the top 1% and leaves the rest of us behind. That’s not how our economy works. It’s about us: when we prosper, so does the economy.
Watch the hearing on raising the minimum wage here! www.facebook.com/5926444287/posts/10157018765039288/📺Watch here: The Committee examines how gradually raising the minimum wage to $15 will be good for people, business, and the economy.
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2019ADAAwards | Americans for Democratic Action
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HomeIssuesAboutVoting RecordsContact ADAOrganizingDonateGet Involved Facebook Twitter RSS Ⓒ 2017 Americans for Democratic ActionCrafted with Care by Bob LucoreExcellent tribute to our friend Marvin Rich
Below are my own comments:
Almost fifty years ago, in September of 1969, I began a graduate student internship with Americans for Democratic Action. I knew little about what I would be doing or about the people with whom I would be working. Little did I know that that temporary position would turn into a lifetime adventure during which I would meet extraordinary people doing extraordinary things.
People who have worked with me since those early days have often heard me say what a privilege it has been – that I have walked with giants. My first national ADA meeting was a prime example of that heady experience as I sat in a room with John Kenneth Galbraith, Joseph Rauh, Arthur Schlesinger and others. Like other young people, I was star struck.
Little did I know, however, that also in that room was a gentle giant whom I would come to cherish in the years ahead. Marvin Rich was there: a quiet, steady presence whose importance to me personally and to Americans for Democratic Action, specifically, cannot be overstated. Throughout the ensuing 5 decades, as I got to know Marvin personally and professionally, he became my lode star.
Marvin took delight in the fact that my marriage to John Isaacs was another ADA marriage for he knew from personal experience that those are wonderful marriages. John and I relish the memory of the dinner Marvin and Evie treated us to to celebrate our own marriage. For us, it was a delight to see this older couple – older in our eyes, probably in their early 40s – so happy together.
It was a joy to watch him and Evie together through all those years. Evie, Marvin didn’t just love you; he adored you and his eyes shone brightly whenever he talked about you or looked at you. For Marvin, you and the rest of your family were the underpinning of everything he did and stood for. MaryAnn, he loved you and often called you a saint. And, the joy he expressed when his two grandsons were born was something to behold.
Marvin also loved young people. He got down on the floor and played with the babies. For the young adults, he quietly helped to educate them about American liberalism and what it has meant to our country’s history. A favorite thing for me to do was to task ADA interns with discovering who at an ADA meeting was critical to the civil rights movement. They never guessed because Marvin was so unassuming but, once they knew, he was generous in talking to them about the history of the movement including his pivotal role in the Freedom Rides.
But, back to Marvin and ADA. Marvin understood, far better than most, that for those who stand in the spotlight to succeed, a firm foundation must be laid and that is what he saw as his role. As chair of ADA’s New York City chapter, national ADA treasurer, chair of the ADA national executive committee, the ADA Education Fund and ADA’s finance and development committee, Marvin ensured that what was needed happened. His presence and devotion to the causes he held dear were constant and unswerving. He never sought the limelight but it is no understatement to say that, without Marvin, the civil rights movement couldn’t have happened the way it did and Americans for Democratic Action would not have lasted 70 years.
Each day, both Marvin and I got into our offices early. During the years when I was national director, he became my first call every morning. He might simply be checking in; he could be seeing if fund appeals were going out on schedule; or he might have a new idea for a project or an event. And, unlike many other board members, he didn’t see his role as simply giving direction; he worked hard to make the often impossible happen. In other words, he was a quiet giant who did not seek the limelight but on whose shoulders all the rest of us stood.
He will, indeed, be missed.
Today in Iowa ADA activist asked Senator Ernst to demonstrate true leadership by standing-up to Trump to end the government shutdown by passing a clean bill with no wall.
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Cedar Falls resident ask Senator Ernst to demonstrate real leadership to end the government shutdown and to not just follow Trump on everything.
Lessons, albeit hard ones, to learn from the shutdown.
Opinion | Hating the government won’t improve it
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Only by examining the anti-government view in its unabashed form can we understand why rational negotiations are so difficult.ADA: What You Should Know
Save the Date: ADA Awards Event, June 18th
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read moreInto the New Year!
What a year 2018 has been and as we head into 2019 together we have much to be thankful for (check out ADA's 2018 Election Report) but also much work to do on issues, 2019 elections such as our work trying to securing working majorities in Virginia!, and setting up...
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How has Congressional partisanship evolved?
A researcher in London has used ADA Voting Records over the past 70 years to create a tool that shows all sorts of interactive information on partisanship trends. Check out the tool HERE.
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