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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.

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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.

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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




The December Book Browse booklist is here.

TWSTE BOOK BROWSE

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