WASHINGTON – Workers in some cities and states will be getting a raise next week as annual minimum wage increases go into effect around the country. In states and cities that have passed significant minimum wage increases, some workers will receive raises of $1 an hour or more as minimum wages are phased in to […]
People’s Action Welcomes End to Discriminatory Muslim Monitoring Program
CHICAGO – Today, the Obama Administration announced that it is officially terminating NSEERS (National Security Entry-Exit Registration System), a program set up by the Bush Administration after 9/11 that profiled and discriminated against immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries. In response, People’s Action released this statement: “We commend the Obama administration for ending the discriminatory and ineffective NSEERS […]
Trump Puts Big Oil in the Driver’s Seat, Betrays Constituents (Again)
CHICAGO – President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday officially announced his selection of Exxon-Mobile CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State and former Texas Governor and current Energy Transfer Partners board member Rick Perry for Energy Secretary. In response to these nominations, George Goehl, the co-director of People’s Action, a national progressive grassroots advocacy organization, issued […]
Donald Trump’s Cabinet Nominees a Truly Toxic Swamp
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE People’s Action is planning and hosting resistance assemblies to counter nominations WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees signal a war on working people, the poor, people of color, immigrants and women. In response, People’s Action has launched an all-out effort to oppose these nominees that will engage its entire family of affiliates […]
People’s Action Endorses Keith Ellison for Democratic National Committee Chair
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHICAGO – People’s Action is endorsing Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison for the Democratic National Committee chair. The next four years will call for courage and a depth of political experience to preserve policies that protect everyday people. In the past decade Keith Ellison has proven himself an unwavering defender of dignity for […]
People’s Action Institute Praises Illinois Future of Energy Jobs Act Passage
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHICAGO – People’s Action Institute, the national progressive grassroots movement, heralded the passage of the Future Energy Jobs Act by the Illinois state legislature today as an advancement toward a clean energy policy that lifts up low-income communities. The bill rebuffed a major rate hike proposed by utility industry while providing $750 […]
Health and Human Services Appointee Underscores Trump’s Allegiance to Profits and Corporations Over People
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, D.C. – The appointment of Rep. Tom Price, (R-Ga.) for Secretary of Health and Human Services is a “death sentence for millions of low-income people,” said LeeAnn Hall, co-director of People’s Action Institute, in a statement issued today. Price has focused much of his political career on overturning the Affordable Care […]
“Uncompromising Opposition” to Sen. Jeff Sessions As Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, D.C. – Isaiah J. Poole, director of communications for People’s Action, issued the following statement in light of President-Elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general: “The nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general is one more way the Trump administration shows its racist, xenophobic, homophobic and […]
Trump’s Victory is Not the Last Word – We Are Not Defeated
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – This statement was issued by People’s Action co-directors LeeAnn Hall and George Goehl in response to the election of Donald J, Trump as president of the United States: Donald Trump’s election to the presidency is nothing short of a disaster for America. He is a racist, misogynist, and xenophobe. And we, […]
Last Push Against Trump Brings People’s Action Total Voter Contacts to a Quarter Million
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON – In the final week of the 2016 election campaign, People’s Action is leading a major push to get more voters to the polls in 18 states – including the key battlegrounds of Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. We’re opposing presidential candidate Donald Trump, working to […]