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Talking points about immigration reform often focus on whether undocumented workers are taking jobs away from Americans who need the work. A story in the Toledo Blade yesterday draws attention to the cost to other American workers of failing to fix the immigration problem.
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Michael Lipsky
The Supreme Court’s rulings on marriage will not lessen the everyday – sometimes subtle, often not – ways that many LGBT people get treated as less than equals.
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Sean Thomas-Breitfeld
Five Supreme Court Justices just rolled back the most effective civil rights provision in our nation's history. What should we do now? One option is to declare "mission accomplished" and forget about race in politics. That, however, will not work. Although we have made amazing progress in the past
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Q. How would you summarize the decision in a single sentence? A. The court effectively rolled back an important provision of the Voting Rights Act, ruling that the act’s formula requiring federal preapproval of election changes for some states but not others was outdated because it was based on data
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Five Supreme Court Justices just rolled back the most effective civil rights provision in our nation's history. What should we do now? One option is to declare "mission accomplished" and forget about race in politics. That, however, will not work. Although we have made amazing progress in the past
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Today, a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, upending a law that has been central to our nation’s commitment to eradicating the shameful legacy of racial discrimination in voting, especially in the deep South. The Court
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The Supreme Court dealt the Voting Rights Act a serious body blow Tuesday, but it did leave Congress an out. The court said, “Congress—if it is to divide the States—must identify those jurisdictions to be singled out on a basis that makes sense in light of current conditions.”
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Dylan Matthews
The Supreme Court just declared that the Civil War is no longer relevant to the history and administration of racial justice in America. In a sense, the court's decision in Shelby County v. Holder validated a generations-long effort -- first by Democrats and later by Ronald Reagan and the Bush
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Howard Fineman
A weekly summary of the top credit card stories that appeared in major publications across the country. Can a Bad Credit Report Hurt Your Job Search?
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Bill Hardekopf
Workers at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center filed a complaint with the Labor Department on Monday alleging a slew of labor violations against their employers, including not being paid the minimum wage and working as many as 80 hours a week without overtime pay. The Reagan
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Dave Jamieson