California Law Boosts Minimum Wage for Health Care Workers to $25 per Hour
Wages rise first to $18 for rural facilities and $23 for large hospitals, with all covered workers reaching $25 by 2028.
'People don't like to be bullied': Group urges P.E.I. to enact anti-SLAPP law
An environmental protection group continues to push the province to adopt legislation that would stop so-called 'strategic ...
Supreme Court leaves in place Pennsylvania law barring people under 21 from carrying guns
The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling from Pennsylvania that allowed residents under 21 to carry ...
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Report says migration down at the border, at the cost of humanitarian law
A fact-finding mission to the Mexico-U.S. border by a New England-based refugee agency and the U.S. Committee for Refugees ...
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Lessons from Philippines’ Martial Law Still Hold for the Church Today
Filipina theologian Melba Padilla Maggay, who fought for democracy 40 years ago, critiques today’s evangelical politics.
Don’t look to courts or officials; it’s up to ‘we the people’ to defend democracy
On the Rhode Island Report podcast, Brown University’s Corey Brettschneider discusses his new book, “The Presidents and The ...
Messenger: Missouri sheriffs are on the wrong side of law-and-order with Amendment 6
Rural Missouri sheriffs are trying to grab money from people in court systems, most of them from St. Louis and Kansas City.
People with felony records can now vote in Nebraska — and it could help tip the balance in November
Nebraska’s high court says people with felony records can register to vote in a decision with implications for the upcoming ...
Elon Musk Might Have Broken the Law Against Bribing Voters. Whoops!
Some of these recent attempted inducements have walked just up to the line of federal prohibitions on vote buying, and it ...
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Nebraska Supreme Court clears the way for people with felony convictions to vote
Nebraska’s highest court ruled against top state officials as it upheld a law providing felons with a path to register to ...
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Anaheim moves forward on toughening laws impacting homeless people
The law prohibits people from putting up tents and storing personal property. In strengthening the city’s enforcement hand, a new law also seeks to ban people from leaving property or lying down ...
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Anaheim moves forward on toughening laws affecting homeless people
The law prohibits people from putting up tents and storing personal property. In strengthening the city’s enforcement hand, a new law also seeks to ban people from leaving property or lying down ...