Honoring Deepak Bhargava’s Commitment to Social Justice
On Sunday, April 21, 2013, The Committee for Effective Leadership will honor four individuals for their exemplary leadership and service. Among the honorees is Deepak Bhargava the Executive Director of…
Arnie Graf: 2015 Change Champion in Community Organizing
Kate Casa contributed to this article. It was the mid-1960s and Arnie Graf, a 19-year-old student at the mostly segregated University of Buffalo, found himself witnessing discrimination in a very…
A Worker’s Take On The New Overtime Proposal
Originally posted on Talk Poverty and The Nation. As a manager for a national auto supply chain, Lora McCrary puts in between 50 and 70 hours a week remodeling stores…
Thinking of My Mother and Our Broken Economy
When I was growing up, I was a “latch key” kid, a popular term for a child who has to come home and lock himself in after school because no…
Putting good jobs at top of US policy agenda
This post originally appeared here. Even though she’s worked at the Checkers in Lincoln Park for four years, Mya Hill is still paid only $8.15 an hour – Michigan’s minimum…
Can We Really Do Something about Poverty in America?
Executive Director Deepak Bhargava delivered the following speech on July 1, 2014 at the Aspen Ideas Fest. For the full video of Deepak delivering this speech, click here. In the richest…
‘Ain’t Got No Wiggle Room’
Originally published on the new blog TalkPoverty.org. Poverty is everywhere. More than one in three Americans—106 million people—live below or perilously close to the federal poverty line. If you pick…
Only the Beginning: Seattle Wins the Fight for 15
Today, Seattle lawmakers reached a compromise deal to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. The city’s minimum wage hike reflects a growing grassroots movement across the country to…
We’re Building a Boisterous, Energized Movement
Building strength from the grass roots. It’s what the Center for Community Change (CCC) has done for 45 years. It’s what we will continue to do in 2014 as we…
Behind the Scenes Heroes
Before we met Joyce Dickinson, a retired home care worker in Florida, she didn’t know that she could pick up the phone and call her member of Congress. Ms. Dickinson…