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The debate over U.S. immigration policies has intensified over the last week due to a surge of migrants at the U.S. border. As local organizations face a growing humanitarian crisis in their communities, and FEMA has been dispatched to the border to help manage the influx, the House is set to take up two immigration bills this week. Recent administrations have all endeavored to address U.S. immigration policy, […]
Written by Katie Glick, Indiana Circle Leader and State Leadership Council Chair As we celebrate Women’s History Month in 2021, I sometimes imagine what future generations will have to say about women in 2021 and 2020. When the world shut down a year ago, we had already begun celebrating the centennial of the passage of the 19th amendment and women’s suffrage efforts. While we did pivot to […]
Congress voted Wednesday to approve the latest COVID stimulus relief package. At $1.9 trillion, it’s the largest spending package in American history. The legislation, passed via budget reconciliation , will now head to President Biden for signature on Friday . Stimulus checks are scheduled to begin going out before the end of the month. The bill approves $1,400 stimulus payments for individuals making up to $75,000 and couples […]
Yesterday, the House passed sweeping voting rights legislation that’s been on Congressional Democrats’ wishlist since 2018. The nearly 800-page H.R. 1 , For the People Act , would make federal updates to absentee voting, in-person voting, campaign finance and ethics reform measures. Polling from 2019 and this year shows the bill is broadly popular with the public, but previous legislation did not pass in the Republican-led Senate in […]
Written by Lauren Hall, Indiana Circle Leader and State Leadership Council Chair and Rachel Labi, YES Fellow and co-founder of Building Financial Freedom Rachel Nyarkoah Labi is one of the incredible young lady leaders with whom I get to work through Indiana Youth Fellows—which is programmed by VOICES in partnership with the Commission on Improving the […]
This week, the U.S. House and Senate are set to vote on another COVID-19 relief bill, which includes a hotly debated $15 federal minimum wage hike . In President Biden’s proposal, the minimum wage would be raised in increments, hitting $15 in 2025, as outlined in Raise the Wage Act of 2021 . Congressional Democrats’ plan that would use federal dollars to increase low-earning workers’ income. Republican lawmakers […]