Iowa eliminated nine days of early voting. New Hampshire took away ballot drop boxes. And Georgia made providing water to voters waiting in line a crime. In many states, nearly all controlled by ...

Reading Time: 4 minutes When Melynda Price thinks of Juneteenth, she thinks of hope. She thinks of home. She thinks of heritage. A legal scholar at the University of Kentucky, Price is a ...

The top 1% of earners in the state would receive an average tax cut of about $10,000 per year, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and West Virginia Center on ...

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A type of law first created after the end of slavery to prohibit Black men from voting prevented more than 4.6 million Americans from participating in the 2022 midterm elections. Forty-eight states ...

Reading Time: 25 minutes What happens if you don’t have the money to pay your state income tax bill?. As the Center for Public Integrity has investigated the impact of state taxes on economic ...

Then there are wage disparities. As just one example: Census Bureau data tracking both white and Black earnings across 217 occupations — from bus driver to CEO — shows higher median pay for white ...

In South Carolina, none of the five supreme court justices are women. It’s the only such court in the nation without a female justice. “It’s an embarrassment,” said Kaye Hearn, a former justice on the ...

Undercounting and underfunding homeless students. The bill would also require a school district’s homeless liaison to inform parents and guardians about student rights and eligibility for support ...

Reading Time: 4 minutes The U.S. Postal Service paid its top executives more in bonuses and perks last year than at any other point in the past decade, adding up to $370,622 in extra income for ...

Reading Time: 7 minutes Fast-rising prices for gas, food and most everything else is hitting low-income households hardest. But the Federal Reserve’s effort to rein in inflation with higher interest ...

The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act was supposed to be a strong dose of medicine for the ills of heirs’ property — jointly owned land with multiple heirs not documented in wills or deedbooks, ...