https://padlet.com/321494/x35n73ooexca Made with ♥ en-us 2017-04-11 15:55:37 UTC 2017-04-12 02:54:18 UTC hello@padlet.com 321494 https://padlet.com/321494/x35n73ooexca/wish/166004508  A labor union is an organization of workers who share the same type of job who work in the same industry. Some 16 million Americans, less than 13.5 percent of the nations labor force, belong to labor unions today. In the 1940's and 1950's, as many as a third of all working Americans were union members. ]]> 2017-04-12 01:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/321494/x35n73ooexca/wish/166004508 321494 https://padlet.com/321494/x35n73ooexca/wish/166005125 Think back to merchants,creditors, and property owners were the people most responsible for the calling Constitutional Convention in 1787. The United States Brewers Association, the oldest organized interest group at work in national politics today, was born in 1862 when congress first levied a tax on beer. Most of the business community also have their own interest groups, often called trade association. ]]> 2017-04-12 02:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/321494/x35n73ooexca/wish/166005125 321494 https://padlet.com/321494/x35n73ooexca/wish/166006668 The first census, taken in 1790, set the nation's population at 3,929,214 persons. It found that nearly all the Americans of that day 94.4 percent of them lived outside any city or town. The national Farmers Union draws its strength from smaller and less prosperous farmers. It now has some 250,000 farm-family members, most of them in the upper Midwest and West.]]> 2017-04-12 02:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/321494/x35n73ooexca/wish/166006668 321494 https://padlet.com/321494/x35n73ooexca/wish/166007250 Religious organizations also try to influence public policy in several important areas. Many protestants and their local and national churches do so through the national council of churches. A public interest group is an interest group]]> 2017-04-12 02:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/321494/x35n73ooexca/wish/166007250