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A new Congressional report
by minority staff in the House found that the House and the Senate have
voted 57 times in the last five years to preempt state laws and
regulations. These votes, the authors declare, make clear "that there
exists a wide gulf between the pro-states rhetoric...and the...
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What political observer is not interested in changes in Ohio's
political landscape? The state has a tendency to be decisive in
Presidential elections and is gripped by high-profile races for
Governor and Senator this year. So it is very interesting that
conservatives appear to be edging away from a...
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As voters grow increasingly fed up with corruption in public office, a
number of courageous legislators are taking the lead on issues like
voter-owned elections and lobbying reform. In Colorado, the forces of reform just landed a major victory.
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The reality for working Americans is that wages have been largely stagnant for
over three decades. For many workers -- especially those without a
college degree -- pay has actually gotten worse, meaning that this
generation is the first one in American history which is not doing
signficantly...
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One of the stated defenses of cutbacks in aid to poor families in the
last decade in the US was the idea that welfare spending traps families
in poverty from generation to generation. But new studies, as detailed in this week's Economist magazine (subscription) show that countries with MORE...
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Paying terrible wages was never likely to be a route to economic
growth, so it's hardly surprising that research continues to show that
Wal-Mart's growth undermines local economies. The most recent study is in the June 2006 issue of Social Science Quarterly (subscription).
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Instead of looking in Alaska for a massive source of energy, look at New York City.
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In states across the country, a simple idea is building momentum.
Rather than amending the Constitution to guarantee that the winner of
the national popular vote wins the Presidency, why not simply amend state law?
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As a new profile in Stateline.org
details, states are struggling to provide foster care for neglected and
abandoned children, increasingly turning to grandparents and other
relatives to care for them. 4 million children now live with relatives
other than their parents.
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Some politicians have a simple way to deal with the challenge of
providing health care to the uninsured: cut the funding for those
currently receiving care and deliver half-rate care to more people. West Virgina and Kentucky legislatures both voted recently to cut benefits
for existing Medicaid...
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In a Nation article right after the 2004 election, scholar James Galbraith denounced the long lines in Ohio
that prevented so many people from voting. "It is an injustice, an
outrage and a scandal--a crime, really--that American citizens should
have to wait for hours in the November rain in...
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