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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...
Общественная поддержка помогает спасти OCE, и пришло время сделать офис постоянным и расширить его полномочия
Благодаря широкой общественной поддержке Управление этики Конгресса США (УЭ) было спасено от очередной попытки Палаты представителей ограничить его полномочия по привлечению членов к ответственности. Республиканцы, демократы и независимые избиратели дали понять членам Конгресса по телефону, электронной почте и в социальных сетях, что они хотят большей, а не меньшей, ответственности от своих избранных представителей в Вашингтоне.
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Горячая линия по защите выборов оказывает избирателям помощь в идентификации и других вопросах.
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
