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Groups: Appalachia Needs Protection From Coal Mining
The Obama administration can take more active steps to safeguard the environment in Central Appalachia from the effects of surface coal mining, especially given a 2009 document in which federal...
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Advocates Push Anti-Profiling Law for Durham Police
Durham, North Carolina is the first stop in a new campaign to create a safer South for queer people of color. “The Durham Community Safety Act” would ban police profiling and discrimination based on...
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Alabama’s Poor are Forking Over Bigger Share in Taxes
In Alabama, people earning the least amount of money – or less than $17,000 per year – are paying twice the rate in taxes compared to wealthier residents, a state public policy organization reports....
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Demand for ‘Sweatshop-Free’ Tomatoes Grows
The brutal mistreatment of workers who pick tomatoes in Mexico was the subject of a recent Los Angeles Times investigation. Suppliers for major U.S. grocery chains, including Walmart and Whole Foods,...
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Appalachian Residents Sue EPA, Calling for Clean Water
Residents concerned about clean water in Appalachia are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and asking for a response to past petitions arguing that Kentucky and West Virginia have failed...
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‘Put Families First,’ Arkansas Residents Tell Lawmakers
The list of community concerns for Arkansas residents was very real on Tuesday: Better pre-K support, improving child welfare initiatives, stronger after-school programs, fewer prisons and tax relief...
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Tennessee Students Call for ‘Tuition Equity’ at College
For thousands of immigrant students in Tennessee, the question this legislative session is this: Will their state be the next to grant “Tuition Equity” so that a barrier to college education will...
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Protect Education in Arkansas, Residents Tell Lawmakers
Arkansas residents took time on Tuesday to engage in direct democracy with state leaders on a topic that is universally seen as a pillar to community strength – quality education for kids of all ages...
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LGBT Workers in Fla. Need Civil Rights Law, Report Says
Members of Florida’s LGBT community continue to face employment discrimination, leaving about 328,000 workers vulnerable without civil rights safeguards from a state law, according to a new report...
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Defeat of Tax Relief for Families Criticized by Ark. Group
Arkansas state lawmakers defeated a bill on Tuesday that would have provided tax relief to low-income families, prompting a sharp response from grassroots advocates who say the move “amounts to a war...
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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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