Peace Groups
Goverment Links
- United States Goverment
- United States Senate
- United States House of Representatives
- Local Goverment
- The Sacramento Area Council of Goverments
is an association of local governments in the six-county Sacramento Region. Its
members include the counties of El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba
as well as the 22 cities.
SACOG provides transportation planning and funding for the region, and serves as a forum
for the study and resolution of regional issues. In addition to preparing the region’s
long-range transportation plan, SACOG approves the distribution of affordable housing in
the region and assists in planning for transit, bicycle networks, clean air and airport
land uses.
- Eldorado County
- City of Placerville
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Charities
Economic Justice
- Losing Ground:
Global Inequality - According to recent studies, the top one percent — the wealthiest
among us — are getting richer and richer.
- Organisation
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCED) has found
the United States to be the most unequal society of all industrialized
nations.
- The very rich are getting richer while wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers at
the bottom continue to decrease in comparison. Worldwide, the story is the same. A 2002 study
by the World Bank found inequality
growing not only between nations, but within nations.
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