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La subvention de la Fondation Lumina aidera le Common Cause Education Fund à étendre son programme d'organisation et de leadership pour les étudiants de couleur
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...
Public Support Helps Save OCE & It’s Time to Make Office Permanent & Expand Its Powers
An outpouring of public support helped save the Office of Congressional Ethics from the latest effort by the House to gut its powers to hold Members accountable. Republican, Democratic and Independent voters let Members know by phone, e-mail and social media that they want more accountability– not less - from their elected representatives in 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
Le vote par correspondance étant en hausse, les défenseurs des droits des électeurs lancent un nouvel outil pour aider les électeurs à demander des bulletins de vote par correspondance et à faire compter leurs votes
Un nouvel outil est disponible pour aider les électeurs étrangers à obtenir et à voter par correspondance
