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Formerly Incarcerated Leaders React to the Introduction of Ban the Box...
Formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones welcomed today’s introduction of the Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act of 2015 by Sens. Cory Booker and Ron Johnson, and Reps. Elijah Cummings and...
View Article2015 Change Champions Awards
The Center for Community Change takes one day out of every year to celebrate some of the movement’s most visionary movement builders, leaders and change-makers. Tonight, we are lifting up the lives and...
View ArticleOur Pilgrimage for Immigrant Rights Remains Strong in the Face of Adversity
Photo via We Belong Together. There was a lot going on last month with the pope’s visit to DC. The pope addressed a joint session of Congress and spoke on several issues, including immigration which is...
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OneAmerica and Highline College Stand for Transit Equity
Written by OneAmerica organizer Carly Brook. Originally posted on the OneAmerica blog. Reliable access to transportation is the single most important factor in escaping poverty. This issue agitated and...
View ArticleWhat do you do when you can’t afford childcare? You get creative.
Written by Center for Community Change Writing Fellow Stephanie Land. Originally posted on the Washington Post. At the start of my 10-minute break during a two-hour writing workshop, I looked down to...
View ArticleReinvesting In Poor Communities Must Be A Priority
Written by Anthony Newby, executive director for Neighborhoods Organizing for Change in Minneapolis and Dorian Warren, Center for Community Change board chairman. Originally posted on the Al Jazeera...
View ArticleThere’s a Reason Black Youth Call Chicago ‘Chiraq’ and It’s Not Just...
Written by Center for Communtiy Change Writing Fellow Fred McKissack. There’s a reason why young black people call Chicago “Chiraq.” It’s like a war zone in some neighborhoods. And it’s not just...
View ArticleThe Flint Lesson: When the Poor Talk, We Must Listen
Photo courtesy of Steve Neavling/Motor City Muckraker Imagine the harm that could have been avoided in Flint if only government officials believed the residents. As far back as May 2014, Flint...
View ArticleLearning to Walk in a Homeless Shelter
Written by Center for Community Change Writing Fellow Stephanie Land. Originally published in the NY Times. My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter. We had one week left there until we...
View ArticleSupreme Court Immigration Ruling Could Stop the Intimidation of American...
Written by Kica Matos, Center for Community Change Director of Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice, and Frank Sharry, Founder and Executive Director for America’s Voice, an immigration reform group....
View ArticleI went to the hospital to stay sane. I left with bills I could never pay.
Originally published on Vox. My boyfriend Scott and I had just broken up. This boy who’d once brought me flowers had turned possessive and controlling. Sleep-deprived from constant drama and isolated...
View ArticleWorker Justice on Display in D.C. This Weekend
The state of worker justice will be on display this coming weekend in Washington, D.C. at the Jobs with Justice national conference. The two-day conference that begins Friday in the nation’s capital...
View ArticleNative Voices Once Silenced, Now Heard
Autumn Harry enjoys her beloved Pyramid Lake. Photo courtesy of Autumn Harry. Autumn Harry has spent her twenty three years living on the Paiute reservation in northern Nevada. She will spend her whole...
View ArticleJobs With Justice March: Recap
Of all the excellent moments at last weekend’s Jobs with Justice conference, the one the continues to stick out for me was when Melonie Griffiths yelled, “I am the movement!” the hundreds gathered at...
View ArticlePersonal Narratives Can Change the World
This trip wasn’t just another day of traveling for work. I hadn’t been able to travel much at all in the last few years, and hadn’t flown on a plane since a friend gave me a ticket from their...
View ArticleNation’s Most Vulnerable Are Fighting Back Against the 1% Tide
Written by CCC’s Advisory Board Member Lisa Garcia Bedolla. Originally published on Common Dreams. As Americans, we cling to the idea that a rising tide lifting all boats is the means to end the...
View ArticleAmerica Needs More ‘Porch Talk’– And Not Just Every Four Years
Every four years, America has a “porch talk” in South Carolina as attention shifts to the first in the south presidential primary. This year, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen....
View ArticleThe food stamp problem parents don’t talk about
Originally published on SheKnows. I only recently stopped buying foods for my 8-year-old daughter that list ingredients I don’t recognize. For half of her life, when I went shopping, I gravitated to...
View ArticleWho Are the ‘Legitimate’ Poor?
Originally published on Talk Poverty. Recently, I disobeyed a cardinal rule of the Internet and decided to read comments on an article I once published in the Missoula Independent. I had begun writing...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg Thinks She Finally Gets Single Moms, But She Doesn’t Get Me
Originally posted in SheKnows. I read Sheryl Sandberg’s recent Facebook post from the trenches of a horrible Mother’s Day weekend. The youngest had thrown up on Friday night, and we slept on the couch,...
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