Students Are Victims of Fraud, but the Department of Education Won’t Help
From today’s New York Times: When Albert Paul Cruz opened a letter from the Education Department last month, he saw the words he’d been waiting for: “We approved your claim.”…
Supreme Court ruling allows plan for religious limits to Obamacare contraceptive coverage
From today’s NBC News Online: The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to give the nation’s employers more leeway in refusing to provide free…
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The Supreme Court just handed down some truly awful news for voting rights
From today’s Vox News Online: The Supreme Court handed down two brief, unsigned orders on Friday concerning what restrictions states may place on absentee voting during the coronavirus pandemic. Though…
Unemployment and job growth show strong improvement, but coronavirus darkens the outlook
From today’s Los Angeles Times: The U.S. economy added a larger-than-expected 4.8 million jobs in June despite the worsening COVID-19 pandemic, registering solid gains for the second straight month after…
Employer-Based Health Care, Meet Massive Unemployment from Pandemic
From today’s New York Times: In the early months of 2020, Americans were engaged in the perennial election-year debate over how best to reform the nation’s health care system. As…
CA Initiative to restore voting rights to parolees heads to November ballot
From the Sacramento Bee: Voters will decide this November whether to restore voting rights for Californians on parole after state lawmakers approved a proposal Wednesday to place that question on…
How COVID-19 turned a spotlight on weak worker rights in the U.S.
From today’s Harvard Gazette: As the economy reopens after the COVID-19 shutdowns, businesses are taking a varied, often patchwork approach to ensuring health and safety for their workers, and much…
Why a Rotting Green Bay Boardwalk May Help Solve America’s Jobs Crisis
From today’s New York Times: The governor of Pennsylvania wants to hire unemployed workers to help the state track the spread of the coronavirus in the fall. City Council members…
Iowa’s GOP governor pledges to restore voting rights to some felons
From today’s Reuters News Service: Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has committed to restoring voting rights to those with past felony convictions, according to a Radio Iowa report, potentially expanding the…
In landmark case, Supreme Court rules federal civil rights law protects LGBTQ workers from job discrimination
From today’s NBC News: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that existing federal law forbids job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status, a major victory for…