DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.

Classism-Challenging Resources: 

 

Classism is prejudice multiplied by power used by persons of wealth against persons who are poor, working, or lower middle class that excludes them from individual, cultural, and systemic resources (Chen-Hayes, Ockerman, & Mason, 2014). To help close achievement (and opportunity and attainment) gaps, I've highlighed in forest green below resources (including evidence-based classroom curricula) that every School Counselor can share with K-12 stakeholders via their School Counseling Program Advisory Councils, School Counseling Core Curriculum classroom lessons, planning for every student, group and individual counseling, and School Counseling Program website resource tabs for students, educators, and families:

 

 

  • #BuyNothingDay: Hashtag challenging consumerism and overconsumption by encouraging persons worldwide to stay home and enjoy life without shopping or spending for one day out of the year (Black Friday/day after Thansgiving in the USA)
  • #Classism Hashtag for organizing to affirm persons who are poor, working class, and lower middle class and those who challenge oppression based on nondominant social class, economic inequality, and lack of access to resouces
  • #EconomicInequality: Hashtag for organizing to affirm persons who are poor, working class, and lower middle class and those who challenge oppression based on nondominant social class, economic inequality, anti-democratic corporatizing policies and practices, and lack of access to resouces
  • #EndStudentDebt Hashtag pushing for loan forgiveness, allowing bankruptcies that include student loans, and an end to student debt, which as of 2015, graduates with debt average $30,000 in USA
  • #Fightfor15: Hashtag for raising the minimum wage to a living wage of $15 and allowing low wage workers to have access to unions and collective bargaining especially in fast food, retail, home health care, child care, college adjunct faculty, and other low wage jobs
  • #FinLit: Hashtag for financial literacy education K-12; Council for Economic Education
  • #FreeCollege Hashtag respresenting the movement in the USA to make public college free for all students (as was once the case in CUNY and the Calfornia State University System) and is still free in a number of countries in Europe
  • #HandsUpDontShoot: Hashtag organizing to challenge police brutality/violence that disproportionately ends the lives of poor young men of color, particularly poor young men of African descent in the USA including: Africa (LA, CA); Raymond Allen (TX); Wendell Allen (LA); Alonzo Ashley (CO);  Anthony Baez, (Bx, NYC); Bernard Bailey (GA); Jordan Baker (TX); Orlando Barlow (NV); Sean Bell (Queens, NYC); Rumain Brisbon (AZ); James Brissette & Ronald Madison (Hurricane Katrina aftermath, LA); Michael Brown, (MO); Aaron Campbell (OR); Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., (NY); John Crawford (OH); Leonel Disla (Bx, NYC); Amadou Diallou (Bx, NYC); Nehemiah Dillard (FL); Patrick Dorismond (NYC, NY); Malcolm Ferguson (Bx, NY); Jonathan Ferrell (NC);  Ezell Ford (LA, CA); Eric Garner (Staten Island, NYC); Ramarley Graham (Bx, NYC); Oscar Grant (Oakland, CA); Kimani Gray (Bklyn, NYC); Jersey Green (IL); Akai Gurley (Brklyn, NYC); Dontre Hamilton (WI); Sheron Jackson (MD); Levar Jones (SC); Melvin Lawhorn (SC); Michael Lembhard (NY); Manuel Loggins, Jr. (CA); Antonio Martin (MO); Kendrec McDade (CA); Tendai Nhekairo (GA); Jerame Reid (NJ); Tamir Rice (OH); Desmond Rudolph (KY); Timothy Russell (OH); Justin Sipp (LA); Timothy Stansbury (Bklyn, NYC); Victor Steen (FL);  Jonnie Kamahi Warren (AL); Steven E. Washington (LA, CA); Stephon Watts (IL); Antonio Zambrano-Montes (WA); Ousmane Zongo (NYC)
  • #Poverty: Hashtag for organizing against economic inequality and challenging class-based oppression
  • #RaisetheMinimumWage: Hashtag organizing for fair pay and a living wage to help end poverty
  • #UpForSchool Hashtag organizing for universal international schooling as follows: To the Prime Minister of Pakistan, leading donor countries and world leaders: To honour the more than 100 children killed in Peshawar, we, the world's youth, teachers, parents and global citizens appeal to our governments to keep their promise, made at the United Nations in 2000, to ensure all out-of-school children gain their right to education before the end of 2015. We are standing up to bring an end to the barriers preventing girls and boys from going to school, including forced work and early marriage, conflict and attacks on schools, exploitation and discrimination. All children deserve the opportunity to learn and achieve their potential. We are #UpForSchool.
  • 5 Ways Ed Pays: For most students who go to college, increased lifetime earnings far outweighs the costs of their education. The real value of a college education, in addition to greater wealth, consists of more security, better health, closer family, and stronger community.  Five Ways Ed Pays takes evidence-based data and builds a compelling message to parents and creates a vision for students — particularly first-generation, students of color, and low income — that college has the potential to transform their lives. https://advocacy.collegeboard.org/five-ways-ed-pays/home
  • 7 Easy Steps to the FAFSA: A student guide to the free application for federal student aid: https://www.finaid.ucsb.edu/Media/FAFSASimplification/index.html
  • 9 Charts Show America's Coming Student Loan Apocalypse http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/20/student-debt-distress_n_5682736.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
  • 38% of New Jersey households cannot meet basic needs (ALICE--Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed): in one of the wealthiest US states where $61,200 is needed for a basic survival budget for a family of four and the federal poverty rate only covers  income needed for food for a familly of four--$22,800 (includes infographic and interactive map) http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/09/struggling_to_survive_38_percent_of_nj_households_cant_meet_basic_needs.html#incart_m-rpt-2
  • 99% Power: People's rights over corporate wrongs www.the99power.org
  • A Rotting Apple: Education Redlining in New York City: Schott Foundation study of inequitable opportunities facing NYC students of color and low-income students, recommends performing equity audits in every middle school and additional change https://schottfoundation.org/publications-reports/education-redlining
  • Accion (English/Español) www.accion.org
  • Action Against Hunger/ACF International www.actionagainsthunger.org
  • Act!onAid India: Focus on the rights of India's most marginalized communities:  Dalit and indigenous people; rural and urban poor; women; children. These groups face an acute lack of access to and control over resources, services, and institutions.
  • Africare: Improving lives, building futures www.africare.org
  • AidforAfrica/Millenium Promise Alliance: Empowering communities with proven technology to address extreme poverty www.aidforafrica.org...
  • The Alliance for Democracy www.thealliancefordemocracy.org
  • American Association of University Professors (AAUP): Advancing academic freedom and shared governance, defining fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and ensuring higher education's contribution to the common good www.aaup.org...
  • American Federation of Teachers (AFT): www.aft.org
  • American Rights at Work: advocating for worker democracy www.americanrightsatwork.org/
  • America Saves Week.org: An annual opportunity to promote good savings beavior and a chance for individuals to assess the own saving status. Most Americans are not saving adequately for retirement, and most lower-income households do not have adequate emergency savings for unexpected expenditures www.americasavesweek.org/
  • Bankruptcy and Student Loans: https://www1.salliemae.com/after_graduation/manage_your_loans/borrower_responsibility/managing_debt/bankruptcy.htm
  • Behindthelabel.org: Fighting for worker rights in the global clothing industry www.behindthelabel.org 
  • Black Women's Blueprint: Securing social, political, and economic equality in the USA for Black women and girls www.blackwomensblueprint.org
  • Buy Nothing Day www.adbusters.org...
  • Center for Study of Working Class Life: Exploring the meaning of class in today's world https://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/
  • Center for Community Change: Building the power and capacity of low-income persons, especially people of color, to improve the communities, institutions, and policies that affect their lives https://www.communitychange.org/ 
  • Center for Economic and Policy Research (English, Español/additional languages) www.cepr.net...
  • Center for Law and Social Policy: Policy solutions that work for low income people www.clasp.org
  • The Center for Media Justice: Communities historically marginalized from democracy defending rights to fair media access and accurate representation advancing strategic stories to transform the public narrative around race, class, and power using media justice frameworks www.centerformediajustice.org
  • Center for Responsive Politics: Tracking money in USA politics and its effects on elections and public policy www.opensecrets.org
  • Center for New American Dream www.newdream.org
  • City Harvest: Rescuing food for New York's hungry www.cityharvest.org
  • Class Action: Bridging the class divide through analyzing classism and social change www.classism.org
  • Clean Clothes Campaign: Improving garment industry working conditions www.cleancothes.org
  • Coalition of Immokalee Workers: www.ciw-online.org/
  • Coalition on Human Needs: Promoting public policy that meets the needs of low-income and other vulnerable people https://www.chn.org/
  • College Abacus: Compares net prices for USA college and university tuition and all other expenses minus expected financial aid https://collegeabacus.com/#
  • College Degree Boom Is Leaving Poor Kids Behind (graphic): https://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/23/college_attainment_inequality_higher_education_boom_is_leaving_the_poor.html
  • College InSight: Data on college affordability, student debt, economic and racial diversity, and student success www.college-insight.org...
  • College Possible: Evidence-based college access program working with poor/working class students with research evidence of effectiveness helping students in high school get admitted and graduate from college https://www.collegepossible.org
  • College Savings Calculator: Determine how much you could or should save for college expenses and maximize savings efforts https://studentaid2.ed.gov/getmoney/save_for_college/save_calculator.html
  • College Savings Initiative (includes video clip of addressing the savings gap for poor/working class students and college completion): Increasing post-secondary education access and completion rates among low-income students via innovative public policy & 529 college savings plan reforms www.collegesavingsinitiative.org/content/about-initiative
  • College Savings Plan Network: A national  non-profit association dedicated to making college more accessible and affordable for families providing 529 college savings plan information from all states in the USA https://www.collegesavings.org/index.aspx
  • College Scholarship Service (CSS)/Financial Aid Profile (College Board): Used primarily by private nonprofit schools in addition to the FAFSA to help determine a family's EFC (Expected Family Contribution) https://profileonline.collegeboard.com
  • Common Security Club: Coming together to prepare for economic change www.commonsecurityclub.org...
  • Community Voice Mail: Helping people in crisis and transition stay connected to the very tool they need most--a constant telephone number https://www.cvm.org/  
  • Confront Corporate Power: By coming together across issue, class, race, gender, and geography, we mobilize to confront abusive corporate power, build a vision for a new economy, and reclaim our democracy. Our demands are precise and simple: corporations must pay their fair share of taxes, treat workers fairly, provide principal reduction to protect homeowners, pledge to keep money out of the election, and shift investments away from abusive private prisons and fossil fuels and into job creation and renewable energy https://confrontcorporatepower.org
  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Student Loan Complaint System (private loans and link for federal loans): https://help.consumerfinance.gov/app/studentloan/ask
  • CorpWatch: Holding corporations accountable www.corpwatch.org...
  • Corporate Accountability International: Challenging abuse, protecting people https://stopcorporateabuse.org...
  • CostofLearning.com: A blog, information source, and universal net price calculator to compute the actual cost of college across all schools www.costoflearning.com
  • Council for Economic Education: organization focused on economic education and financial literacy for K-12 students
  • Council of Canadians/Le Conseil des Canadiens (English/Français)  Acting for social justice--protecting fresh water, strengthening public healthcare, fighting for fair trade, and pushing for an environmentally friendly energy strategy focusd on renewable/sustainable energy www.canadians.org... 
  • Delta Cost Project: helping higher education administrators and policymakers improve college affordability by controlling institutional costs and increasing productivity www.deltacostproject.org
  • Dollars&Sense: Real world economics (publishers of progressive magazine & college texts) challenging classism www.dollarsandsense.org
  • Dollars for Docs: How pharmaceutical industry dollars reach your doctors (nationwide database). Drug companies have long kpet secret details of the payments they make to doctors and other health professionals for promoting their drugs. But 12 companies have begun publicizing the information, some because of legal settlements. Accepting payments isn't neccesarily wrong, but it can raise ethical issues https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars
  • DonorsChoose.org: Engages the public in public schools to address educational inequity by funding an educator's project in a classroom www.donorschoose.org
  • Early College High School Initiative: 240 public high schools in 28 states and D.C. combining academic rigor and the opportunity to save time and money to motivate for students  compressing the time it takes to complete a high school diploma and the first two years of college with a targeted focus on low-income youth, first-generation college goers, English language learners, students of color, and other young people underrepresented in higher education www.earlycolleges.org
  • Eatiquette: Transforming  poor and working class children's school lunch from an assembly line to family-style focused on healthy locally sourced food prepared on site to increase student interaction, communication skills, and readiness to learn www.ventrifouncation.org/what-we-do/eatiquette/
  • EconEdLink: 430+ K-12 lessons for economic education and financial literacy free to teachers, school counselors, college counselors sponsored by the Council for Economic Education http://www.econedlink.org/
  • The Economic Policy Institute: Focusing on low and middle income workers' needs in the USA economy www.epi.org...
  • Economically Diverse Top Colleges: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/09/upshot/09up-college-access-index.html?abt=0002&abg=0
  • Education Sector: A hybrid institution formed at the intersection of public policy, research and journalism creating independent analysis and innovative ideas--USA students deserve a high-quality publicly financed education through high school and the financial help necessary to attend high-quality colleges and universities. www.educationsector.org
  • Educational Training Voucher (ETV): Federal grant for colleg for students in foster care or who left foster care age 16 or older www.statevoucher.org www.statevoucher.org
  • Edufactory: Organizing globally to challenge inapporopriate practices in university knowledge production and especially student and faculty struggles https://www.edu-factory.org/wp/about/
  • European Network on Debt & Development (EURODAD): Promoting debt cancellation, responsible lending, and an end to multilaterial debt www.eurodad.org... 
  • FAFSA Used Against Students: Inside Higher Education article explaining how FAFSA school preference information is/can be used against students by universiities in awarding aid and how this practice needs to be stopped; SCs need to educate families about how ACT, College Board, and FAFSA data is sent to colleges without family awareness of its impact https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/28/colleges-use-fafsa-information-reject-students-and-potentially-lower-financial-aid?goback=.gde_1771062_member_5800598839073202177#!
  • Fair Food Standards Council: Ensuring human rights, decent wages, and fair working conditions for tomato pickers https://fairfoodstandards.org/about.html
  • Fair Labor Association: International collaborative protecting worker rights worldwide www.fairlabor.org
  • Fair Trade Federation www.fairtradefederation.com
  • Fair Trade USA: Enabling sustainable development and community empowerment by cultivating a more eqtuiable global trade model that benefits farmers, workers, consumers, industry, and the earth.  https://fairtradeusa.org/
  • Farm Land Grab: Reports about the global rush to buy up or lease farmlands abroad as a strategy to secure basic food supplies or simply for profit. It is a resource for those monitoring or researching the issue, particularly social activists, non-government organisations and journalists  (Amharic   Bahasa Indonesia   Català   Dansk   Deutsch   English   Español   français   Italiano   Kurdish   Malagasy   Nederlands   Português   Svenska   Türkçe   العربي   日本語) www.farmlandgrab.org
  • Federal Aid First: Site explaining why federal college loans are usually the best deal for borrowers (undergraduate, graduate Stafford loans--subsidized and unsubsidized--and PLUS loans for parents/guardians of dependent students and graduate students to help finance college) over private loans due to lower fixed interest rates and more flexible repayment schedules; also links to FAFSA and how to apply www.federalstudentaid.ed.gov/federalaidfirst/
  • Federal Student Aid Ombudsman Group: Resolving disputes over direct loans, Federal family eduation (FFEL) program loans, guaranteed student loans, and Perkins loans www.studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/disputes/prepare
  • Feeding America: Foodbanks and advocacy to end hunger and food insecurity(English, Español) www.feedingamerica.org
  • Feed Our Vets: Providing nutritious food to U.S. Veterans whose circumstances have left them on the battlefield of hunger https://www.feedourvets.org/index/home
  • Financial Aid Toolkit: US federal aid information and outreach for school and college counselors  https://financialaidtoolkit.ed.gov/tk/
  • Focus on the Global South: Research, advocacy, activism, grassroots capacity building on globalisation, neo-liberalism and militarisation www.focusweb.org 
  • Food First/Institute for Food & Development Policy www.foodfirst.org
  • Food Not Bombs www.foodnotbombs.net
  • Food Research and Action Center (FRAC): Eradicating hunger and undernutrition in the USA frac.org
  • Forgive My Student Debt: How persons in public service can be debt-free for student loans http://forgivemystudentdebt.org/
  • FreeRice.com: A nonprofit website supporting The United Nations World Food Program with two goals: provide free education and help end world hunger by providing free rice. https://freerice.com
  • Free the Slaves www.freetheslaves.org 
  • Freedom from Hunger www.freedomfromhunger.org
  • Global Exchange: Justice to transform global economy from profit-centered to people-centered, from currency to community  www.globalexchange.org
  • Global Slavery Index https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/
  • Global Stewards www.globalstewards.org
  • Global Water www.lobalwater.org
  • Goodweave: Working to end illegal child labor in the handmade rug industry www.goodweave.org...
  • Government Accountability Project: Promoting corporate and government accountability by protecting whistleblowers, advocating occupational free speech, and empowering citizen activists www.whistleblower.org
  • GRAIN: supporting international small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodversity-based food systems (English/Español/Francais) www.grain.org
  • Green America's Ending Sweatshops Program www.greenamerica.org...
  • Green America's Fair Trade Program www.greenamerica.org...
  • Green Belt Movement: Income and sustenance to Kenyans via tree planting; women's rights, civic engagement, and environmental education in Africa www.greenbeltmovement.org
  • Green For All: Building an inclusive economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty  www.greenforall.org
  • Gynunity Health Projects: Working globally to ensure that reproductive health technologies are widely available at reasonable cost, provided in the context of high-quality service, and offered in a way that recognizes the dignity and autonomy of each individual. Our efforts are focused particularly on resource-poor environments, underserved populations, and challenging subject matter www.gynunity.org
  • Heifer International www.heifer.org
  • Help the Afghan Children: empowering the children of Afghanistan through schools, education, and locally developed options www.helptheafghanchildren.org...
  • Hotel Workers Rising: Hotel workers and allies rebuilding the middle class through unionized, living wage jobs and challenging union-busting www.hotelworkersrising.org 
  • The Hunger Project www.thp.org
  • The Hunger Site www.thehungersite.com
  • I Am Not A Loan: Campaign to end the student debt crisis https://www.iamnotaloan.org/
  • IBR (Income-Based Federal Student Loan Repayment)info.org : Independent information about federal student loan repayment and forgiveness programs www.ibrinfo.org
  • In-state Angels: Assisting out-of-state students receiving in-state tuition rates for college https://www.instateangels.com/learn/
  • Institute for Research on Poverty www.irp.wisc.edu...
  • International Forum on Globalization: Promoting equitable, democratic, and ecologically sustainable economies www.ifg.org...
  • International Labor Organization www.ilo.org
  • International Labor Rights Forum www.laborrights.org
  • International Scholarships.com: Financing information (Grants, scholarships, loans) for students seeking study in colleges abroad https://internationalscholarships.com
  • International Society for Ecology and Culture: Promoting locally based alternatives to the global consumer culture www.localfutures.org...
  • International Student Movement: Activists exchanging information, networking, and activities in struggle against world wide commercialization of public education seeking free emancipatory education for all www.emancipating-education-for-all.org
  • International Trade Union Confederation: Representing the interests of working people worldwide www.ituc-csi.org
  • Jobs with Justice www.jwj.org
  • Jublilee USA Network: Joining hands to break the chains of debt in Asia, Africa, and Latin America www.jubileeusa.org
  • Kiva: Loans that change lives www.kiva.org
  • La Via Campesina (English, Español): Small farmer organizations for gender parity; economic justice; land, water, seed and resource access; food sovereignty; sustainable agriculture  www.viacampesina.org
  • Labor History Curriculum (USA) www.kentlaw.edu...
  • Lambdi Fund of Haiti: Funding sustainable development, community micro-credit, animal husbandry, environment, and organizational and leadership thinking through community grass-roots approaches www.lambifund.org
  • Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign: A job should keep you out of poverty not in it https://letjusticeroll.org
  • Managing Student Loans: borrower responsiblities, repayment, and postponing payment https://www1.salliemae.com/after_graduation/manage_your_loans/
  • Maquila Solidarity Network (English, Español): Labor and women's rights organization supporting global supply chain workers' improved wages, work conditions, and quality of life www.en.maquilasolidarity.org...
  • MercyCorps: Be the change--Alleviating suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities https://www.mercycorps.org
  • Millenium Promise Alliance: Extreme poverty ends here www.aidforafrica.org 
  • ModestNeeds.Org: Small change. A world of difference. www.modestneeds.org
  • Money as You Grow: 20 things kids need to know to lead financially smart lives www.moneyasyougrow.org
  • National Alliance to End Homelessness www.endhomelessness.org
  • National Center for Children in Poverty www.nccp.org
  • National Coalition for the Homeless www.nationalhomeless.org
  • National Coalition for Homeless Veterans www.nchv.org
  • National Guestworker Alliance: NGA works to ensure that (1) Guestworkers have the power to transform their workplaces from exploitative to dignified--and have the consciousness and organization to do this in partnership with local workers locked out of employment; (2) Guestworkers have the power to transform the terms of migration so that workers can arrive to the USA on a path to first-class citizenship, and (3) Guestworkers are progagonists in a vibrant social movement to expand the right to organize for all excluded workers reversing a long legacy of retaliation against workers of color who organize to win dignity and freedom. www.guestworkeralliance.org
  • National Labor Committee: Putting a human face on the global economy www.nlcnet.org  
  • National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty www.nlchp.org 
  • National Low Income Housing Coalition www.nlihc.org
  • National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness www.studentsagainsthunger.org
  • National Student Loan Data System: The U.S.A. Department of Education's central database for student aid. NSLDS receives data from schools, guaranty agencies, the Direct Loan program, and other Department of Education programs. NSLDS Student Access provides a centralized, integrated view of Title IV loans and grants so that recipients of Title IV Aid can access and inquire about their Title IV loans and/or grant data https://www.nslds.ed.gov/nslds_SA/
  • NerdScholar: Empowering students and parents to make wise financial decisions about college https://www.nerdwallet.com/nerdscholar/index.php
  • NerdWallet: Free price-comparison tools to save money: finance, investing, education, travel, coupons www.nerdwallet.com
  • New American Dream: Responsible consumption, preserving the environment and fighting for social justice www.newdream.org 
  • The New Bottom Line: A national campaign challenging established big bank interests on behalf of struggling and middle-class communities to restructure Wall Street to help American families build wealth, close the income inequality gap, and advance a vision for how our economy can better serve the many rather than the few www.newbottomline.com
  • New Economy Project: Financial literacy resources for poor and working class persons of color in NYC and beyond https://www.nedap.org/index.html
  • New York State's Extreme School Segregation: Ineqality, Inaction, and a Damaged Future (paper from the Civil Rights Project by Drs. John Kuscera and Gary Orfield, 2014) http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/ny-norflet-report-placeholder/Kucsera-New-York-Extreme-Segregation-2014.pdf
  • Nurse Family Partnerships: Helping transform the lives of vulnerable first-time moms and their babies. Outcomes include long-term family improvements in health, education, and economic self-sufficiency www.nursefamilypartnership.org
  • Occupy Wall Street: The resistance continues https://occupywallst.org/   
  • One International: Fighting extreme poverty & preventable disease www.one.org...
  • One Laptop Per Child  www.laptop.org
  • Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): Better policies for better lives improving economic and social well-being of the world's people www.oecd.org
  • Our World Is Not For Sale: Stop corporate globalization www.ourworldisnotforsale.org
  • Over 50 and Out of Work: Video advocacy and interview project demonstrating the lasting effects of The Great Recession on older adults and their unemployment and underemployment https://www.overfiftyandoutofwork.com/
  • Oxfam America: Working together to end poverty and injustice https://oxfamamerica.org/
  • Pay as You Earn Plan (Federal Student Loan Repayment) https://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/understand/plans/pay-as-you-earn
  • Payscale: Large database of self-reported individual employee compensation profiles (not a scientifically accurate sample; doesn't include self-employed, folks who went to graduate school, or part-time college students), it provides a snapshot of the current job market for future career and college major decisions.  www.payscale.com
  • PharmedOut: Advances evidence-based prescribing and educates healthcare professional s about pharmaceutical marketing practices. Our goals are to: Document and disseminate information about how pharmaceutical companies influence prescibing, foster access to unbiased information about drugs, encourage physicians to choose pharma-free continuing medical education www.pharmedout.org/
  • Physicians for a National Health Program www.pnhp.org   
  • Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign: Uniting the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty. https://old.economichumanrights.org/
  • Poverty Mapped in the USA (US Census Data): https://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2014/01/05/poverty-map/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20140106
  • PreventObesity.net Supporting all those working to change policies and environments to help children and families eat well and move more, especially in communities at highest risk for obesity www.preveventobesity.net/
  • Professional Staff Congress/CUNY www.psc-cuny.org...  
  • Public Campaign: Clean money, clean elections www.publicampaign.org
  • Public Service (Federal Student) Loan Forgiveness https://www.ibrinfo.org/can.vp.html
  • The Racial Dot Map: One dot per person based on 2010 USA census data showing race/class patterns in housing https://www.coopercenter.org/demographics/Racial-Dot-Map#themap
  • Raise the Minimum Wage: Rebuilding the wage floor for low-wage workers in the USA www.raisetheminimumwage.org
  • Rebuild the Dream:  Rebuild the Dream is a platform for bottom-up, people-powered innovations to help fix the U.S. economy. Using 21st-century digital technology, advancing inventive solutions to protect and expand the middle class creating pathways to prosperity for those locked out of it.  www.rebuildthedream.com
  • Results: The power to end poverty www.results.org
  • Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping www.revbilly.com
  • Ryan's Well Fund: Children and teens organizing for clean water wells in Africa www.ryanswell.ca
  • ScholarPRO: Applying for scholarships should be simpler.  From search to submission, we make sense of the entire scholarship process so that students can get back to the business of learning. ($30/annual fee; free for low-income students) https://www.scholarpro.com/
  • ScholarRelief: Educational crowdsource funding for students and academics www.scholarrelief.com
  • Sex Workers Project: Using human rights and harm reduction approaches, promoting the rights of individuals who engage in sex work, regardless of whether they do so by choice, circumstance, or coercion. https://www.sexworkersproject.org/ 
  • Share the World's Resources: Sustainable economics to end global poverty www.stwr.org
  • ShelterBox: Delivering emergency shelter, warmth & dignity to people affected by disaster worldwide www.shelterbox.org
  • Social Mobility Index: Stimulating policy changes in US higher education to reverse the dangerous economic divergence between rich and poor through affordable and accessible college experiences that bring poor and working class students greater economic gains versus the wealthy www.socialmobilityindex.org
  • Solar Cookers International: Solar cooking awareness and skills to create sustainability www.solarcookers.org
  • Solidaridad Network--Making markets work for the poor: Solidaridad's vision is sustainable production in agriculture and industry, combined with fair trade products, make a significant contribution to combating poverty and preserving people's environment in the globalizing economy. Creating a living wage and humane working conditions for people in developing countries provides the basis for a decent existence and the conditions for stopping the wholesale theft of scarce natural resources www.solidaridadnetwork.org 
  • Solidarity Center www.solidaritycenter.org
  • Southern Education Foundation: Assuring fairness and excellence in P-16 public education especially for students of color and poor students  www.southerneducation.org
  • Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality:  Seeking answers to why the USA is so unequal and poverty-stricken and what can be done about it www.stanford.edu
  • Student Labor Action Project (SLAP): Engaging student organizations in economic justice www.studentlabor.org...
  • Student Loan Borrower Assistance Program  www.studentloanborrowerassistance.org
  • Student Loan Justice: Seeks a return of standard consumer protections to student loans (as they are currently impossible to discharge via bankruptcy unlike other forms of debt) www.studentloanjustice.org
  • Sum of Us: Consumers, workers, and shareholders counterbalancing the power of large corporations www.sumofus.org www.sumofus.org
  • SuperZips: Interactive graphic of household income and educational status by zip code showing attainment gaps and economic disparities in the USA by location https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2013/11/09/washington-a-world-apart/?wprss=rss_Copy%20of%20local-arlington-social
  • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (f.k.a. food stamps) https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2226
  • Sweatfree Communities: A network for local action www.sweatfree.org 
  • Taiwan Labor Front https://labor.ngo.tw/ 
  • Take Back the Land: Elevating housing to a human right and securing community control over land--not corporate banks and lenders www.takebacktheland.org
  • Tax.com: Education about the tax system for greater scrutiny and knowledge about it www.tax.com
  • Tax Justice Network USA: Promotes tax justice and tax cooperation, including policies to address tax avoidance, tax evasion and the lack of financial transparency in our government, corporations, and financial institutions. It operates on a not-for-profit and non-partisan basis by bringing together organizatons, social movements and individuals working towards thse goals. https://tjn-usa/org
  • TeacherSolidarity: Education in most countries is subject to neo-liberal education 'reform' slowly starving public schools, promoting privatization, destroying teacher professionalism to produce a minimally educated workforce that can read instructions and advertisements but discouraged from thinking critically about the world. Teachersolidarity records resistance to such reform of teachers, their unions, communities and researchers defending public and democratic education www.teachersolidarity.com
  • Time for a Raise: Demanding a higher livable minimum wage for all USA workers www.timeforaraise.org 
  • Transafrica: Justice for the African world--envisioning a world where Africans and people of African descent are self-reliant, socially and economically prosperous, and have equal access to a more just international system that strengthens independence and democracy www.transafrica.org
  • Trickle Up: Breaking the cycle of extreme poverty www.trickleup.org
  • Unions.org: (a listing of unions and union-friendy businesses) www.unions.org... 
  • Union Songs https://unionsong.com/
  • United Farm Workers www.ufw.org
  • United for a Fair Economy: Raising awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart www.faireconomy.org
  • United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1966, yet to be ratified) www.hrweb.org... 
  • United Students Against Sweatshops www.usas.org
  • Urban Justice Sex Workers Project: https://www.sexworkersproject.org/
  • US Uncut: Taking action against unnecessary and unfair cuts to public services in the USA www.usuncut.org...
  • WarCosts.com: International effort explosing the humane and financial costs of the USA's military-industrial complex https://warcosts.com
  • We Are the 99 Percent (photo montage of folks occupying Wall Street protesting that most wealth/assets in the USA are in the hands of the richest 1% and everyone else is shortchanged) https://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com 
  • Wealth for the Common Good: Promoting shared responsibility and fair taxation of the wealthy and corporations to benefit all citizens https://wealthforcommongood.org/
  • What's It Worth: The Economic Value of College Majors Study (Georgetown U. Center for Workforce Development, 2012) https://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-complete.pdf
  • Where Poor and Uninsured USA residents live and what they do for work (graphic and data): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/02/us/uninsured-americans-map.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131003&_r=0
  • Why Hunger: Finding answers for hunger and poverty www.whyhunger.org
  • Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW): Working to build pathways to economic independence for America's families, women, and girls. WOW has a distinctive history in changing the landscape of women and work. www.wowonline.org/
  • Working Class Studies Association www.wcstudies.org
  • The Working Group on Extreme Inequality www.extremeinequality.org...
  • World Bicycle Relief: providing access to independence and livelihood through the power of bicycles www.worldbicyclerelief.org...
  • World Hunger Year www.whyhunger.org
  • World Social Forum: Another world is possible www.forumsocialmundial.org.br
  • World Wide Fund for Nature https://wwf.panda.org
  • WorstPills.org is an online database written by expert staff doctors and pharmacists at Public Citizen and searchable by drug name, family of drugs, disease or condition, drug-induced disease or condition, and by health policy issue. It gives recommendations on drugs and dietary supplements based on unbiased, expert evaluations of up-to-date medical literature and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) unpublished data. WorstPills.org includes in-depth information about the safety and efficacy of 500+ top-selling drugs – including 212 to not use under any circumstances. They provide recommendations on safer alternativess. www.worstpills.org/
  • WTF: Where's the Funding?/Student Labor Action Project: Public need versus corporate greed www.studentlabor.org...
  • YouthBuild International: Youth development program addressesing local community infrastructure, education, employment, crime prevention, and leadership development  integrating school, work, counseling, social action, leadership development, and personal transformation www.youthbuildinternational.org
  • The Yummy Pizza Company: Labor studies curriculum for elementary schools https://www.cft.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=215%3Athe-yummy-pizza-company&catid=40%3Auncategorized&Itemid=8 
DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.