In 2009, Wellstone Action is continuing a partnership with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to train their rank-and-file members in the skills needed to run for office and win.

In a recent visit to the Sheila Wellstone Institute, US Senator Amy Klobuchar (MN) talked of the importance of continuing to make the issues of domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking a priority in government and public policy.

In a new report entitled Race and the Recession, the Applied Research Center details that people of color have been in a recession for decades, not just in the past two years.