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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Louisiana Advocates Urge Congress to Reject Drastic Cuts to Federal Assistance Programs
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Mississippi Advocates Urge Lawmakers to Reject Drastic Cuts to Federal Assistance Programs
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Florida Advocates Urge Lawmakers to Reject Drastic Cuts to Federal Assistance Programs
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Georgia Advocates Urge Congress to Reject Drastic Cuts to Federal Assistance Programs
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Alabama Advocates Urge Congress to Reject Drastic Cuts to Federal Assistance Programs
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
School system in Louisiana still failing to educate students with disabilities
Terra Boyd, a former New Orleans-area teacher, has spent the past two years of her retirement fighting for her grandson against his public charter school. The school, she says, has failed to educate him under the terms of his Individualized Education Program (IEP) — a violation of federal laws for children with disabilities. Boyd even…
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Trump Executive Action on the Census, Explained
Image at top: In a photo from June 27, 2019, demonstrators gather at the Supreme Court as the justices finish the term with key decisions on gerrymandering and a census case involving an attempt by the Trump administration to ask everyone about their citizenship status in the 2020 census. (Credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Federal budget cuts will hurt most Americans but make rich people wealthier
Editor’s note: This is the sixth story in the “Cuts & Consequences” series about the effects that federal spending reductions would have on people living in the Deep South. When Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term in office on Jan. 20, he immediately began taking an ax to the country’s regulatory agencies…
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Cuts & Consequences
The first 100 days of the second Trump administration introduced Americans to an executive order barrage never before seen in our country. It is aimed primarily at cutting programs essential to the social safety net that for almost a century has provided for the people who suffer from hunger, poverty and illness. The Southern Poverty…
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Federal court ruling in Alabama case a victory for reproductive rights
A federal district court in Alabama last month issued a pivotal opinion prohibiting the Alabama attorney general from carrying out his threats to criminally prosecute people who help pregnant Alabamians leave the state to access abortion where it is legal. The court held that the threats violated the Yellowhammer Fund’s right to free expression and…
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