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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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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

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

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

The Reason for Skyrocketing Tuition Costs

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According to The New York Times' Paul F. Campos, tuition rates are more the victim of "the constant expansion of university administration" than state-funded budget cuts.

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JJ Feinauer

Governor Cuomo Joins the Fight for Higher Wages in Fast Food

Last month—just a couple of days after NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer provided a thorough accounting of the benefits of a $15 minimum wage in the 5 boroughs—Attorney General Eric Schneiderman laid out the case for how Governor Andrew Cuomo could raise wages for thousands of struggling New Yorkers in a contribution at the NY Daily News.

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Catherine Ruetschlin

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

Three Ways Inequality is Making Life Worse for Everyone

While income is distributed unequally in the country, what few people know is how much more unequally wealth, financial assets and inheritances are distributed. 

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Sean McElwee

Debt-Free College is Doable

As the 2016 campaign begins to take shape, there have been strong signals that debt-free higher education is going to be a central policy flash point.

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Mark Huelsman