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Day: March 10, 2018

If you’re voting in 2018, maybe you should vote for a woman

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United States (Conversation) – This year, women are poised to make great gains in congressional representation. Across the country, women are running for office in greater numbers than ever before, in particular for seats in Congress. Including both incumbents and challengers, more than 500 women are running for seats in the House and the Senate. Currently, only about 20 percent of all members of Congress are women – 22 of the 100 U.S. senators are female, as are 84 of the 435 members of the U.S. House. The 2018 election…

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The Trump Appointee Behind the Move to Add a Citizenship Question to the Census

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Washington, DC (ProPublica) — In December, the Department of Justice requested that the Census Bureau add a question to the 2020 survey that would ask respondents to reveal whether or not they are U.S. citizens. Since ProPublica first reported the DOJ’s letter, civil rights groups and congressional Democrats have announced their opposition, arguing that in the midst of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, the question will lead many people to opt out of the census, resulting in an inaccurate population count. A lot is at stake. The once-a-decade population count determines how House seats are distributed and…

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The Stunning New Cruelty of Immigration Enforcement

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Unites States (OW) – We’ve reached a cruel new phase in the U.S. government’s war on immigrants without papers. And it should disturb you no matter what your views on immigration. When undocumented immigrant families are detained, they are being increasingly split up. Not only are whole families being rounded up, but parents are being detained separately from their children — often states away. Jose Demar Fuentes, an asylum seeker from El Salvador, is being held in San Diego. His one year old son is being held in Texas. “What…

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