“Women who might leave the labor force for child rearing or taking paid leave only make 76 cents compared to a man’s dollar,” said Lorena Roque, director of education, labor, and worker justice at the Center for Law and Social Policy. “Not having affordable child care, not having paid family..."
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CLASP has a NEW tool: Our DOGE tracker tracks the harms that DOGE has done to government programs.
The goal of the tracker is to support transparency by providing accessible, regularly updated data to policymakers, researchers, and advocates!
Link ➡️ : www.clasp.org/doge-tracker/
28.04.2025 20:04 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
CLASP has a NEW tool: Our DOGE tracker tracks the harms that DOGE has done to government programs.
The goal of the tracker is to support transparency by providing accessible, regularly updated data to policymakers, researchers, and advocates!
Link ➡️ : www.clasp.org/doge-tracker/
28.04.2025 20:04 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
In just #100Days, the Trump administration has ordered mass layoffs, deportations & cancellations of union contracts.
Dig into with the #GoodJobs Collaborative where our policy teams will discuss what it’s been like for American workers… and what to expect next.
↘️ www.newamerica.org/education-po...
22.04.2025 15:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
House Dems travel to El Salvador to secure Maryland man's return
More Democrats are making the trip abroad to raise awareness for what they call a “constitutional crisis” surrounding Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation.
We have arrived in El Salvador.
Trump is illegally arresting, jailing, & deporting people with no due process. We must hold the Administration accountable for these illegal acts and demand Kilmar’s release. Today it’s him, tomorrow it could be anyone else.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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How can we build an economy where every job is a good one?
Join us and fellow #GoodJobs Collaborative partners as we reflect on the president’s First #100Days and launch the Good Jobs Compass, a new tool to assess how public policies are supporting workers.
↘️ www.newamerica.org/education-po...
18.04.2025 16:42 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of the AFL-CIO's statement condemning the Trump administration's executive order stripping collective bargaining and union rights from workers across the federal government.
Stripping collective bargaining and union rights from workers across the federal government is the very definition of union busting — and a blatant attempt to silence us.
We will fight this outrageous attack on our members with every fiber of our collective being.
28.03.2025 03:20 — 👍 1535 🔁 589 💬 46 📌 83
The Trump tax plan only works by cutting public services.
This incredible visualization combines the potential tax cuts (which mostly go to the rich) and loss of services (mostly borne by the poor).
It is a giant wealth transfer from the poorest to the richest. budgetlab.yale.edu/news/250319/...
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Sesame Street CEO is anti-union?!?! They can't do this us!!! 😡
06.03.2025 16:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China would cost the typical US household over $1,200 a year
Trump's tariffs are a tax on the working class. These tariffs will cost working families $1200 a year, the largest tax hikes since 1993. #SOTU www.piie.com/research/pii...
05.03.2025 02:55 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
a giveaway to tax cheats
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One problem with glorifying the accumulation of wealth is that when obscenely wealthy people break the law to steal more money just because they want to, many of the people they’re stealing from have been trained to see that as admirable
03.03.2025 15:18 — 👍 838 🔁 162 💬 23 📌 8
DOGE has announced a total of 45 Social Security field office closures--so far.
SSA has 1,200 field offices where people can receive in-person help getting benefits, updating records, enrolling in Medicare & more.
They served 30M applicants & beneficiaries in 2023 — nearly 120K *per day*.
26.02.2025 21:56 — 👍 1050 🔁 558 💬 53 📌 65
YouTube video by Face the Nation
Watch Live: Trump's labor pick Lori Chavez-DeRemer testifies at Senate confirmation hearing
The Lori Chavez-DeRemer hearing is so rough:
-Refuses to admit that $7.25 is not a livable wage.
-Response to if every worker deserves paid leave, she says "it depends."
Depends on what?! Jfc.
#SenateHELP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6fJ...
19.02.2025 16:34 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Threats to the Department of Education: Private Equity Replacing Public Funding | CLASP
This brief details the threat that the new administration poses to the federal Department of Education and its impact on post-secondary institutions.
The Department of Education has faced threats of closure since 1979 but has weathered every storm. CLASP’s latest discusses how even as Trump Admin will likely fail, that doesn't mean higher ed is safe from these actions. #highered #DepartmentOfEducation www.clasp.org/publications...
05.02.2025 20:00 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Unions Sue Treasury Department Over Giving Musk's 'DOGE' Access To Payment System
Giving Elon Musk's team access to Treasury's payment systems amounts to a "massive and unprecedented" privacy intrusion, the complaint states.
Two massive unions have sued the Treasury Department for granting Musk's “Department of Government Efficiency” access to federal government payment systems.
SEIU and AFGE, with nearly 3 million combined members, are fighting DOGE's illegal activity.
www.huffpost.com/entry/unions...
04.02.2025 17:00 — 👍 2872 🔁 736 💬 40 📌 48
The super wealthy want you to be mad about foreign aid because they don't want anyone to focus on the HUGE amount of money we spend on THEM.
Trump's 2017 law spends more on tax breaks for just 4 companies (AT&T, Facebook, Verizon and Walmart) than the entire USAid budget.
03.02.2025 14:17 — 👍 30 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 1
Comms director fighting for economic and social justice.
The resistance team for the U.S. Department of Labor. Not an official government account. #resist #altgov
ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳. ✊🇺🇸
Fighting for the 75 million working women who keep this country running. Join the movement: the75million.org #The75Million
Advancing justice in the workplace for women, caregivers, and people with health needs of their own.
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ✔️
Paid family and medical leave in 14 states ✔️
Paid sick time in 19 states ✔️
abetterbalance.org | 1-833-NEED-ABB
The Healthcare Career Advancement Program (H-CAP) is a national labor-management organization.
We build the workforce for quality care through worker-centered workforce development partnerships between workers, unions, employers, & people receiving care.
Nonprofit & public sector leader, passionate about children and families, racial and economic justice, protecting immigrant families, supporting organizations and leaders seeking to advance these goals. Former HHS Asst Sec, DC CFSA Dir, nonprofit ED.
Building progressive grassroots power and holding members of Congress accountable. Make a difference in a few clicks: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
Senior Policy Analyst with the Public Benefits Justice Team at @CLASP.org. Previously worked at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities & the Congressional Hunger Center.
LGBTQ, disability, and anti-poverty advocate.
All views are my own. (she/her)
Policy team at @clasp.org fighting for better job quality, employment opportunities, and worker justice for people with low-incomes.
#UnionsforAll
Pro-worker/anti-work labor economist, Chief Economist and SVP of Research at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Hampshire College and NSSR alum, cat person.
worker justice and job quality | @clasp.org
APPAM is dedicated to improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis, and education.
The Labor Center conducts research and education on issues related to labor and employment. Our trainings serve to educate a diverse new generation of labor leaders. We also engage UC Berkeley students in learning about the labor movement.
The Urban Institute is a research-to-impact institution founded on one simple idea: To improve lives and strengthen communities, we need practices and policies that work.
Economist @ CAP; opinions my own
I research poverty, equity & social policy. Dad. PhD. Data nerd. Data/research consultant. Affiliate Scholar @centeronbudget.bsky.social & @georgetownpoverty.bsky.social
Cats, cooking, programming, and tax policy. Data and Model Director @itep.bsky.social but all opinions are my own.
Avuncular unionist, uxorious husband, labor historian, cat guy. "Who's Got the Power?: The Resurgence of American Unions" coming in 2025 from New Press. Lives in Minnesota. Posts are personal. The cat in the profile pic is Laverne, aka Peanut.
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