Internally, women and queer people were pushed to the margins as theychallenged the male leaders of the movement The union can’t take on this entire burden alone — that’s the kind of heavy lift that only the government has billions of dollars available to address in a meaningful way. However, if the AFL-CIO threw its weight — financially, but more importantly, politically — behind a government-sponsored job-training program, like the one proposed in the Green New Deal, it would make a huge difference. And on their own terms. Not every foster child finds a home. There are the forgotten ones, those who grew up in the system as faceless beings with trauma that stays with them longer than the social workers who swore to protect them. For black foster children, the realities of foster care can be brutal: take the 2015 death of six-year-old Kendrea Johnson, a black foster child who reportedlytook her own life to force a floor vote on the DREAM Act that would allow the bill to be brought to the floor without being approved by House leadership. But compromise seems distant in Washington, D.C., where on October 8, Trump released alist of immigration principles