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Immigrants Celebrate Legislative Victories in Florida
Grassroots advocates claimed several victories in Florida on May 9 as the legislative session ended, saying that nine bills they view as anti-immigrant were derailed, including legislation that would...
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Residents: Medicaid Access in Alabama Needs to Be Preserved
A shortfall of $85 million to support Medicaid in Alabama next year could leave hundreds of thousands of residents – primarily seniors, people with disabilities and kids – without access to health...
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NCLR Seeks to Register Latino Voters in Florida
MIAMI (AP) — The nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights organization has launched a major voter-registration drive in the battleground state of Florida to identify and sign up hundreds of thousands of...
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Defeat of ‘Anti-Immigrant’ Bills Is Hailed by Fla. Advocates
Immigration reform advocates in Florida marked the end of the state legislative session on Friday with what they are calling “wins” on nine pieces of legislation that they say are detrimental to new...
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Farmworkers Protest at Florida Home of Wendy’s Chairman
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Hundreds of protesters, many farmworkers, led by Ethel Kennedy, demonstrated near the home of Wendy’s fast food chain’s chairman in hopes of convincing the company to pay a...
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For Super Tuesday, New Voting ID Requirements Were in Effect
Five states in the South and Southwest enforced stricter voting identification requirements on Super Tuesday, as citizens in a dozen states cast ballots for their presidential choices. The states,...
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Child Care Support in Miss. Can Be Run Better, Advocates Say
More than 106,000 low-income kids in Mississippi, especially in communities of color, are not receiving adequate child care services, though they are eligible for such programs, grassroots advocates...
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HB 675, Covering Immigration in Fla., Passes in State House
A controversial bill in Florida requiring local police and governments to enforce federal immigration law passed the state House of Representatives on Feb. 3, prompting criticism from grassroots...
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Advocates: Revoked Voting Rights in Ky. Hurt Democracy
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s executive order to rescind voting rights for about 150,000 nonviolent former felons was announced just three days before Christmas 2015. By Dec. 23, grassroots advocates...
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Groups: ‘Harmful’ Effects of Tenn. Coal Mines to Be Reviewed
A coalition of environmental and community groups won an agreement this month to help protect two species of fish from mining pollution in the streams of Tennessee. On Jan. 19, a federal judge...
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Groups: A Mining Company Violated the Clean Water Act in Ky.
A five-year battle over pollution reporting in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky finally ended last month, with a mining company admitting to violating the Clean Water Act, Kentuckians for the...
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Number of Ala. Kids in Poverty Grows to 1 in 4
In Alabama, families struggled despite a growing U.S. economy, with more than a quarter of the state’s children living in poverty and without reliable sources of healthy food, a new report found. The...
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Miami-Dade County to Open Office of New Americans
As the push to reform U.S. immigration policy remained stalled on Tuesday, grassroots advocates and immigrant families in Florida’s Miami-Dade County took a moment to celebrate what they’re hailing as...
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Health Insurance for Kids Jumps to Best Numbers in Decades
The percentage of children without health insurance fell to its lowest point in decades in 2014, with Alabama boasting the lowest rate in the Deep South, the Georgetown University Health Policy...
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Voting Rights and Licenses Offices in Ala. Still at Center of Debate
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley agreed to keep 31 driver’s licenses offices open one day a month, a concession that critics said fell far short of voters’ needs in the state’s rural communities. In...
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Will Lexington Be the Next to Raise the Minimum Wage?
As more local governments consider raising the minimum wage, supporters and opponents in Lexington-Fayette County in Kentucky and throughout the country will be paying particular attention to a...
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Miami-Dade County Gets Closer to Backing Citizenship
When it comes to helping immigrants and people with permanent residency status take steps toward gaining citizenship, grassroots advocates and families say that every bit of support matters. On July...
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An Alabama Tax Handbook Sheds Light for Residents
Residents in Alabama now have easier access to state tax and budget information, including how public dollars are raised and where money is spent, thanks to an updated, user-friendly handbook from...
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‘Decarceration’ Is Focus of National Meeting in Florida
Grassroots advocates from communities of color and immigration groups met this week in Florida for a national gathering to examine private prisons, mass incarceration and the “criminalization” of...
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Tenn. ‘Tuition Equity’ Bill Fails by 1 Vote
An estimated 25,0000 immigrant students who want to pay in-state tuition to attend public college in Tennessee will be forced to wait at least until 2016, following a legislative defeat on April 22...
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