October 12, 2024

Election Watch 2024

Ensuring Access to the Ballot in Aftermath of Helene

Women in the Workplace Report

Small Gains, Recommendations

Climate News

Global Problems, Local Solutions

Global News

Undocumented Immigrants, Mental Health, Elections

States News

Arizona GOP's reversal in 'noncitizens' voting litigation

Reproductive rights: Where do Trump and Harris stand

Florida senate race, 2 candidates, different climate views

Election Watch 2024

Ensuring access to the ballot

Election administrators can take concrete steps to ensure citizens can vote and the election runs efficiently. The Brennan Center reports on the role of federal, state and local coordinators to ensure the continuity of administrative operations plans, voting options, and the importance of communicating the changes made to the voters.

Women in the Workplace

McKinsey's annual report

The report provides an intersectional look at the specific biases and barriers faced by Asian, Black, Latina, and LGBTQ+ women, as well as women with disabilities. The findings show progress, decline and stagnation with recommendations corporations can make using four building blocks to advance the progress toward parity for women in the workplace.

Climate News

Climate and Health: Global Problems, Local Solutions

Nearly 70% of the world's population is expected to live in a city by 2050. In 2015 New York City launched its Heat Vulnerability Index. The HVI informs neighborhood-level policies and programs that send life-saving resources where they are needed most.

Urban plans like NYC's can provide information on flooding, cooling, air quality with environmental date to local populations for effective approaches to combat climate change. Are city planners in your state planning for a livable future?

Global News

The immigrant experience during the U. S. election

German A. Cadenas, a psychology scholar and formerly undocumented Venezuelan American, tells her first-hand story of how anti-immigrant politics and discrimination are harmful to human health.

Cadenas is the associate director of the Center of Youth Social Wellness at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

State News

Voter News

Federal court deals blow to key portion of Texas voter suppression law BrennanCenter

What the Arizona GOP's surprise reversal in 'noncitizen' voting litigation reveals JustSecurity

How do you vote amid the hurricane damage? States are learning as they go FloridaPhoenix

Abortion News

Reproductive rights: Where do Trump and Harris stand? AZMirror

Florida Supreme Court sides with DeSantis in dispute over state abortion website FloridaPhoenix

Texas abortion laws are straining the OB-GYN workforce, new study shows TxTribune

Climate News



Mountain and coastal lawmakers push colleagues to confront climate change in the wake of Helene NCNewsline

How Texas' environmental agency weakened a once-rigorous air pollution monitoring team TxTribune

In Florida senate race, two candidates with widely different views on climate InsideClimate

State climate planning: Learning from California plan ProgressiveReform

How three big White House bills fixed streets and met climate priorities in one city WisconsinExaminer

Iowa scientists suggest individual action to help climate crisis, reduce anxiety IowaCapDispach

Global News

The wide world of violence against females in sports PassBlue

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