Progressive Movement News / June 1, 2016

CPD Gala Highlights: Mestrich on a Living Wage; Warren Hits Trump Hard

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s excoriation of Republican nominee Donald Trump at the Center for Popular Democracy‘s gala last week drew big headlines – she blasted him as a “small, insecure money-grubber” rooting for American families to fail in order to make a quick buck. DA Board Member and Amalgamated Bank President Keith Mestrich followed by lauding the kind of policies that support families instead of tearing them down – his institution’s new $15 minimum wage chief among them.