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Advocates Hope Skelos Resignation Equals Watershed Moment for Ethics Reform

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To date, the Senate has been mostly unsupportive of the Moreland Commission's proposals. The good government groups are hopeful the current wake of scandal will be enough to finally persuade lawmakers to enact real change.

"We think that should be a wakeup call now to the Senate," Scharff said.

"This is not only a political decision,” said Emmanuel Caicedo, a senior campaign strategist with Demos. “This is a moment where our leaders can make a moral and ethical choice about whose voices matter."

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Matt Hunter

Will FGCU Cut Some Liberal Arts Programs for a Narrowed Focus?

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Looking at the types of programs named last month, opponents to cuts see what they call a guise to squeeze a public education system tasked with growing demands and enrollment but declining funding.

"There are people in the policy and political sphere who really feel this issue is getting toward full-blown crisis level," said Robert Hiltonsmith, a senior analyst at New York-based policy center Demos.

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Seth Soffian

Debt-Free College Under President Hillary Clinton?

Students living in President Hillary Clinton’s America could go to college debt-free, her campaign manager hinted earlier this week. 

Making college more affordable is part of Clinton’s plan to boost quality of life for ordinary Americans, Robby Mook, “Hillary for America” campaign manager, told CNBC in response to a question about which age demographic will be the toughest for Clinton to lure.

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Jillian Berman

Suit Threatened Over NC Voting Access

Four national and state voting-rights organizations are threatening to sue North Carolina for what they contend are Gov.
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Craig Jarvis

Race & Money... Let’s Talk About It!

[...] At the individual level, racial differences have been observed when it comes to accumulating wealth. A study recently published by the public policy organization Demos called “Racial Wealth Gap” found that the wealth gap between Blacks and Whites has grown since the Great Recession. Specifically, it found that White households reported to have 17 times the wealth of Black households.
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Angela Fitzgerald

Advocates Say NC Is Failing to Register Public Benefit Recipients as Voter

Local social service agencies are not giving poor residents adequate opportunities to file and update voter registrations as required by federal law, a letter sent by a group of voting rights advocates warned the North Carolina State Board of Elections and Department of Health and Human Services.   Executives with Project Vote, Demos, Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice were the lead authors of the letter, which is potentially the precursor to a lawsuit if North Carolina officials don't a
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Mark Binker

Voting Rights Advocates Call on North Carolina to Take Action after Voter Registrations Drop Sharply at State Public Assistance Offices

(New York, Raleigh, Washington, D.C.) – Citing clear evidence that the state of North Carolina is failing its obligation to provide low-income residents with a meaningful opportunity to register to vote at public assistance agencies, today Democracy North Carolina, Action NC, and the A. Philip Randolph Institute (“APRI”) sent a pre-litigation notice letter to Kim Strach, Executive Director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections (“NCSBE”), as well as Dr.

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How quickly will states get to zero in funding for higher education?

Public colleges and universities are supposed to be affordable options for students seeking a degree, but years of state budget cuts have led to increased tuition that families are struggling to afford. If states continue down this path of disinvestment, some will soon contribute nothing to higher education and leave schools and parents to fend for themselves, according to a series of new reports.

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Danielle Douglas-Gabriel

What's Behind Surging Public University Tuition

Thanks to rapidly rising tuition costs, America has a $1.2 trillion student debt problem.

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Aimee Picchi