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Format: 05-24-2013
Format: 05-24-2013
State-sponsored infringement on the right to vote is not a new phenomenon in Florida. Indeed, Florida’s history of voting rights violations led Congress to require that five Florida counties seek pre...
January 25, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Two years ago the Supreme Court got it supremely wrong when it held that corporations had the  same rights as people to spend money in elections. Campaign finance laws protect our democracy from...
January 19, 2012 | Policy Brief |
A Nelson hold is a wrestling move used to pin an opponent.  The Montana Supreme Court recently upheld its century old restrictions on corporate political spending, finding that the State had a...
January 19, 2012 | Policy Brief |
The Great Recession had a formidable impact on everyone in the US economy, intensifying the trends of increasing vulnerability that developed over the past 30 years.  But young people fared...
January 5, 2012 | Policy Brief |
On Tuesday, December 13th, the Congressional Progressive Caucus unveiled the RESTORE the American Dream for the 99% Act. The bill, if passed, would create more than 5 million jobs and save more than...
December 13, 2011 | Policy Brief |
Young Invincibles and Demos partnered to complete The State Of Young America report, the first comprehensive look at the economic challenges facing young adults since the Great Recession.  In...
December 5, 2011 | Policy Brief |
In October of 2011, the United States Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) revised its guidelines regarding the provision of voter registration applications at naturalization ceremonies; and for...
December 5, 2011 | Policy Brief |
As public concern grows over deepening economic and political inequality, there’s good news to report in five states: 1 million additional members of the 99 percent have filled out voter registration...
November 22, 2011 | Policy Brief |
  Women’s Rights and the Arab Spring Overview on the Middle East and North Africa Successful uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt in the last year have sparked movements against dictatorships across...
November 1, 2011 | Policy Brief |
Women's Learning Partnership
The Leadership Conference
The protesters seeking to “occupy” the financial district in New York and other cities have been widely depicted in the media as having no coherent rationale for their protests. In fact, though,...
October 11, 2011 | Policy Brief |