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"In the last 16 years, 2,100 newsrooms across the country have shut down. And there are half as many newspaper journalists working today as there were a decade ago."

On Wednesday, CWA 7777 Local President Debbie Medina spoke at a virtual press conference on why CWA members are working so hard to pass the PRO Act.

Funding to support state and local governments is one of the most important parts of the American Rescue Plan, which passed both houses of Congress and was signed by President Biden last week.

On Tuesday, in a bipartisan vote, the U.S. House passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, one of CWA's top priorities for building worker power.

To loosen the hold corporate money has on our country, we must build worker power, and to do that, we need the For the People Act.