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Westside community concerns about Georgia Power substation
The English Avenue/Vine City community and Councilmember Byron Amos have concerns about a substation that Georgia Power is putting in their community, only 0.25 miles from the current substation near the Fulton County Jail. Here are articles on the matter: The community and Councilmember Amos are concerned about the project’s lack oftransparency, environmental impact and…
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Congress Introduces Housing not Handcuffs Act
Washington, DC — Today at 3:30 PM EST, Congress members Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Maxwell Frost (D-FL), along with national and local homelessness advocates, will introduce the Housing Not Handcuffs Act at a press conference in room 215 of the Capitol Visitors Center. This act prohibits federal agencies from arresting, ticketing, or otherwise criminalizing homelessness.…
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With Threats of Medicaid Cuts Looming, SPLC Releases Report on Necessity of Medicaid Expansion in the Deep South
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a report highlighting the urgent need for Medicaid expansion in the Deep South as a pressing matter of racial and disability justice. At a time when Republicans in Congress and President Donald Trump are pushing a budget reconciliation process that would dramatically cut Medicaid,…
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Stepping Into the Gap: Medicaid Expansion in the Deep South as a Lifeline to Care
Tina, a 58-year-old Black woman living in the Delta, is Mississippi born and raised.[1] She raised four children and spent more than two decades working as a machine operator at a catfish plant. While she has Medicaid coverage now, there was a time when she felt she could not see the doctor because she could…
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Anaria Cabrera, et al. v. U.S. Department of Labor
After the Trump administration announced the suspension of the Job Corps program and that all 99 of its centers would close, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Public Citizen Litigation Group filed a federal lawsuit opposing the action as an illegal shutdown of the program. The lawsuit describes how on May 29, 2025, the U.S.…
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Students sue over Trump’s shutdown of Job Corps program
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, seven Job Corps students, on behalf of a nationwide class, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Labor over the Trump administration’s decision to close Job Corps centers across the country and shut down the Job Corps program. The plaintiffs are represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group and Southern Poverty…
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Joint Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of the United States
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Letter to Alabama senators on negative impacts of federal budget reconciliation bill
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Letter to Florida senators on negative impacts of federal budget bill
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Letter to Louisiana senators on negative impact of budget reconciliation bill
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