From the The Center for American Progress: This week the House Judiciary Committee will be marking up a bill to make E-Verify, the government’s Internet-based system that checks whether prospective employees are authorized to work, mandatory for all employers in the United States. E-Verify is an immigration enforcement tool—it is…
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Press release re-printed in its entirety. [On September 12, 2011], a former Harris County Assistant District Attorney who prosecuted Duane Buck is urging state officials to halt Mr. Buck’s execution next week because “[n]o individual should be executed without being afforded a fair trial, untainted by considerations of race.” Linda…
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From Workplace Prof Blog: The Seattle City Council voted yesterday to require employers in the city to provide paid sick leaves to employees, according to an Associated Press story. Currently, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and the state of Connecticut mandate paid sick days. You may recall that Milwaukee passed an…
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From Colorlines: Now a cell of this national movement called Personhood Mississippi is using the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857 to convince Mississippi voters to outlaw abortion in the state via a November 9th ballot initiative called Amendment 26. As we all (hopefully) know, Dred Scott was an enslaved…
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Today’s blip in time: US Poverty Rate: 1 in 6 Blackwater Video Game Republicans block disaster relief package Same-old: God-fearing righteous Republicans believe sick people should die 9/14: Tomorrow is National Day of Action to oppose the E-verify bill The WH two-page summary of the Obama jobs bill 65-page slideshow…
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From the AP: About 46.2 million people, or nearly 1 in 6, were in poverty. That’s up from 43.6 million, or 14.3 percent, in 2009. It was the highest level since 1983. The number of people lacking health insurance increased to 49.9 million, a new high after revisions were made…
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On September 14th immigrant advocates around the country are coordinating a national day of action against the proposed E-Verify bill in congress. E-Verify is a sinister combination of Arizona’s immigration policy with Wisconsin’s approach to labor. Under this legislation, unscrupulous bosses would have one more tool for busting unions and…
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The Immigration Policy Center has released two “Perspectives” on border enforcement: How to Fix a Broken Border: Hit the Cartels Where It Hurts, part one of a three-part series by Terry Goddard, former Arizona Attorney General, and Guns, Drugs, and Money: Tackling the Real Threats to Border Security, by Josiah…
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