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Lumina Foundation Grant Will Help Common Cause Education Fund Expand Organizing & Leadership Program For Students of Color
Today, the Common Cause Education Fund is pleased to announce it is a recipient of Lumina Foundation’s racial equity funding program to expand the Student Action Alliance. The Student Action Alliance is a program for students of color that is led by a team of Black millennials. The program focuses on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and students of color at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). The two-year $200,000 grant, which is part of the Lumina Foundation’s $15 million effort to help eradicate systematic...
COVID-19 Stimulus Package Provides Significant Broadband Relief to Help Connect Low-Income Households, Ignores other Democracy Reform Priorities
Today, Congress released the text to an emergency $900 billion COVID-19 stimulus package that includes $7 billion to increase broadband access throughout the nation. While, foregoing other needed democracy reforms present in earlier versions of pandemic relief legislation, the package specifically includes an Emergency Broadband Benefit, which provides $3.2 billion for a $50 monthly subsidy for eligible low-income households and a $75 monthly subsidy for households on Tribal lands to purchase a broadband connection. Households...
El apoyo público ayuda a salvar la OCE y es hora de hacer que la oficina sea permanente y ampliar sus poderes
Una gran muestra de apoyo público ayudó a salvar a la Oficina de Ética del Congreso del último intento de la Cámara de Representantes de quitarle poderes para exigir cuentas a los miembros. Los votantes republicanos, demócratas e independientes hicieron saber a los miembros por teléfono, correo electrónico y redes sociales que quieren más rendición de cuentas, no menos, de parte de sus representantes electos en Washington.
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New Website Helping Americans Weigh In on Supreme Court Vacancy
A new Common Cause website helps Americans join in the debate over filling a Supreme Court vacancy
With Absentee Voting on the Rise, Advocates Launch New Tool to Help Voters Request Absentee Ballots, Get Votes Counted
A new tool is available to help overseas voters get and cast their absentee ballots
