Before I started writing for the blog here, I was another out-of-work, recent college graduate, like so many of my friends. My brother had graduated three years before me and, at that time, my parents struggled to help him figure out a way to get health insurance. My family was lucky enough to be able to do that, but many of my brothers’ friends weren’t able to get insurance, and...
I’m angry and I’m frustrated. And perhaps like me, you don’t recognize the country you live in anymore. It’s not just the rabid partisan politics or the dour national mood driven by our deepening recession; it’s simply the lack of compassion for our disadvantaged compatriots. It’s the drumbeat of ideological dogma that focuses more on spending cuts than the...
In recent weeks, the Center for Community Change has been testing our new vision for “scale with soul,” attempting to reach thousands of Americans who have not been reached before; urging organizers and active leaders to reach beyond their current base to build a powerful, authentic, bottom-up movement for social change. With the American dream itself under assault, we are...
Among the hundreds of people at a rally last week in Charlotte, N.C., calling on Congress to create more jobs to get our economy going again were two sisters and their brother who all have had to move back in with their parents because they cannot find jobs. Read what the siblings have to say: Destiny Jackson, 20: Destiny is a single mom with a 3-year-old son. She’s taking paralegal...
