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December 3, 2023

Report Card Rates States Redistricting

Key findings can help shape work for future redistricting

Women's Priorities for Health and Well-being

Global survey provides demands and action points

States News

Five states redistricting claims

Cochise County supervisors indicted

Alabama's growing health equity divide

Redistricting

The Road to Fair Elections

The CHARGE report reflects on this redistricting cycle, rating each state's redistricting process, successes and challenges, and lessons learned. States received grades based on several factors related to the process and mapping outcomes.

Charge Report: Community Redistricting Report Card

CHARGE, the Coalition Hub for Advancing Redistricting & Grassroots Engagement, is a space for groups that organize people in the states and in local communities. CHARGE is composed of organizations that have presence in different states and that deploy different organizing strategies while uniting around the common goal that redistricting must be transformed to allow more voices to participate, be heard, and be represented.

Global News

Women's Priorities for Health and Well-being

The White Ribbon Alliance Report summarized a survey and concluded that to effectively meet women's needs, systems will need to adopt a more holistic approach.

The findings includes demands for better health care systems, education and economic opportunity, freedom from harm, and much more.

The report also groups a series of action points that can help drive holistic change.

Over a million women around the world were asked 'What do you want most for your health and well-being?'

The survey by the White Ribbon Alliance asked women and girls around the world what they need most for their health and well-being. These are their replies.

State Redistricting News

Do these states pass the test for fair redistricting maps ?

Georgia legislature releases new, still gerrymandered maps DemocracyDocket

Florida Appeals Court keeps DeSantis' discriminatory congressional map in place DemocracyDocket

New Hampshire Supreme Court shuts the door on partisan gerrymandering claims DeomcracyDocket

Ohio Supreme Court allows gerrymandered legislative maps to remain for 2024 DeomocracyDocket

New York high court hears final arguments over congressional redistricting for 2024 DemocracyDocket

State News

Tax cuts, teacher pension increases at stake after misinformation-led challenge to 2023 election VoteBeatTexas

Texas grid faces winter after failed attempts to get more power online TexasTribune

Michigan to automatically register people to vote when exiting prison VoteBeat

Two Cochise County supervisors indicted for refusing to certify midterm election VoteBeatArizona

Purdue University launches broadband team to serve all of Indiana DailyYonder

New street medicine program brings health care to Rhode Island's homeless StatesNews

Alabama's Growing Health Equity Divide. The paradox of the American health-care system hits mothers hard ThinkGlobalHealth

With law enforcement sparse, Alaska villages build network of safety for survivors AlaskaBeacon

More states are banning plastic bags. Florida is not among them StatesNews

Over 100 private water wells near Colorado military sites have dangerous PFAS levels StatesNews

Stripping away the power of a vote in Mississippi DemocracyDocket

Interactive map: U S abortion policies and access after Roe Guttmacher

For Your Information

Recordings now available for The 2023 Public Summit of the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education NASEM

Columbia University to set up $100 million fund for patients of predator OB-GYN Propublica

Medicaid 'unwinding' makes other public assistance harder to get KFFHealth

'Forever chemicals' found in fresh water fish, yet most states don't warn residents KFF

Shareholder activists can inadvertently raise CEO pay. Here's what can be done about excessive CEO pay TheConversation

Trump Trial Clearinghouse JustSecurity

What's Happening In Our Corner

These organizations listed on our website are offering workshops, virtual classrooms, new programs, updates on their initiatives, valuable resources, and news you can use.

Plain-language legal information for victims of abuse. View by state for legal information, places that help WomensLaw

Beyond the rankings: the college welcome guide HechingerReport

Tuition Tracker is an interactive tool that shows the relationship between published tuition and the actual costs. Revealing the true cost of college HechingerReport

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