The waiting list for shelter beds has consistently hovered above 1,000 people and the number of applications for affordable housing outnumbers the available units by multiple thousands. Almost every Supervisor claims to support Navigation Centers, yet they are only present in three out of eleven districts. Tell your Supervisor to support the Ordinance requiring a Navigation Center in every district!
Read MoreSubmit a public comment on DHS proposal to bar current and future asylum applicants from receiving work permits.
Read MoreLast week, the Trump administration finalized a USDA rule change that will kick nearly 700,000 people off of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. Two additional rules changes, that will increase that number to 3.7 million people, are pending and will be finalized soon. Congress can use the Congressional Review Act to stop this rule change - tell them to use this power!
Read MoreIt's time for Democrats to stand up for Main Street and stop selling their souls to Wall Street. No NAFTA 2.0!
Read MoreTrump wants to take away the food assistance of millions of Americans. Now’s the time to speak up!
Read MoreSubmit a public comment to the Food and Nutrition Service opposing their new cuts to SNAP that would cut vital food aid to working American families.
Read MoreMany young people leaving foster care after they reach adulthood become homeless soon after losing the child welfare system’s support, and, among those who do, more than half experience multiple episodes of homelessness. HR 4300 — the Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act — would help address this tragic policy failure by making Housing Choice Vouchers available to more at-risk foster youth, to help them rent housing at an affordable cost during these vulnerable transition years. Ask that Speaker Pelosi support and Congresswoman Speier co-sponsor this important bipartisan bill.
Read MoreThe Trump Department of Labor announced plans to make sweeping revisions to the H-2A agricultural guest worker program to the detriment of farm workers. The proposed H-2A changes would weaken key protections for farm workers, limiting their ability to obtain employment with H-2A employers and exposing H-2A workers to greater vulnerability and costs. You can give public comment in opposition to the changes!
Read MoreIn our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Congress can use this to check immigration enforcement authorities by cutting off the flow of money to programs that mistreat people coming to the United States.
Read MoreThe Department of Labor is proposing a new rule for federal contractors granting them the right to discriminate on the basis of *their* religious beliefs if they declare that they adhere to religious principles in how they conduct their business. Submit a public comment opposing this.
Read MoreIn our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Trump administration programs and schemes can be blocked by denying them funds, and some of their destructive regulation and rule changes can be countered by mandating how funds have to be used.
Read MoreTrump wants to take away the food assistance of millions of Americans. Now’s the time to speak up!
Read MoreAsk your Senators to support the Raise the Wage Act. Also, ask them to support the Restoring Justice for Workers Act, which prohibits unfair forced arbitration agreements, bars retaliation against workers for refusing to arbitrate work disputes, and allows employees to collectively organize regarding work disputes.
Read MoreAsk your House Representative to support the Restoring Justice for Workers Act, which prohibits unfair forced arbitration agreements, bars retaliation against workers for refusing to arbitrate work disputes, and allows employees to collectively organize regarding work disputes.
Read MoreICE agents can command any person in public, or in any place they're let into, to show their “papers, please”—and if they don't prove to the agents' satisfaction that they're a citizen or lawfully present, ICE—in a practice called “expedited removal”—can deport them immediately, without so much as an immigration court hearing.
The Trump administration wants to expand this power nationwide.
In our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Trump administration programs and schemes can be blocked by denying them funds, and some of their destructive regulation and rule changes can be countered by mandating how funds have to be used.
Read MoreIn yet its latest act of unprecedented cruelty and greed, the Trump administration wants to legitimize discrimination in healthcare. Submit a public comment to slow down or halt this proposal!
Read MoreIn yet its latest act of unprecedented cruelty and greed, the Trump administration wants to lower the poverty level, by reducing yearly cost of living increases for the poor. Submit a public comment to slow down or halt this proposal!
Read MoreWe must ramp up the pressure on Speaker Pelosi to abandon her Big Pharma handout and support HR 1046 instead! Please call Pelosi’s office today and insist she rescind support for this back-door deal with the pharma industry and the Trump administration!
Read MoreAsk your House Representative and Senators to support the Raise the Wage Act. Also, ask them to support the Restoring Justice for Workers Act, which prohibits unfair forced arbitration agreements, bars retaliation against workers for refusing to arbitrate work disputes, and allows employees to collectively organize regarding work disputes.
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