The first thing you need to know about politics is, you can’t persuade everyone. When people say that MAGA (Make America Great Again) voters are impossible to persuade, that they believe what they want...
Community Schools Resolution: This resolution promotes community schools as a way to improve student achievement by providing services and programs that address out-of-school barriers to learning. The Community Schools Resolution can be adjusted to apply to...
Here are the eleven states where abortion rights ballot initiatives will probably be on the ballot in November 2024: Arizona Arizona for Abortion Access is gathering signatures for a ballot measure to make abortion...
Right-wingers have been attacking progressives and Democrats, as usual, over the issue of crime. But, in fact, crime is down across the nation. Murder, especially, has declined substantially both comparing 2022 to 2023 and...
Tenants Right to Organize Act: For residential tenants, collective action is often the most effective, or only, way to solve legitimate grievances against the landlord. The Tenants Right to Organize Act, based on a District...
Most discussions of the subminimum tipped wage are from the point of view of the employer or employee. Let’s consider instead how it works for the customers doing the tipping because, for them, it’s...
Fairness In Taxation Act: Affluent households pay a disproportionately low share of the tax burden. The Fairness in Taxation Act, based on the Massachusetts constitutional amendment enacted in 2020, would add an additional tax...
Fundraising can be hard or fairly easy. It really depends on the way you prepare, the way you ask, and perhaps most important, the way you feel about the project. Here are ten tips...
Poll Worker Investment Act: Poll workers are increasingly older and new ones are difficult to recruit. The Poll Worker Investment Act would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to serve as precinct officials under the supervision...
The whole idea of fighting bigotry is that people should be judged on their individual characteristics not their group, such as race, religion, sex, or gender identity. And yet, Joe Biden is almost universally...