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Who helps vulnerable farm workers?

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The current H-2A program in the U.S. is a mechanism where growers are allowed to import laborers from foreign countries to harvest crops. However, according to a new report by David Bacon, Oakland Institute, these workers are often exploited by the growers, who can set high production quotas, fire workers for little cause, and blacklist […]

Michael Li on redistricting, 2021-22

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Michael Li, Senior Counsel, Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, has recently published a report “The Redistricting Landscape, 2021-22“. His report analyzes four factors that affects voting boundaries: who controls map drawing; changes in the legal rules governing redistricting over the last decade; pressures from population and demographic shifts over the same period; […]

Actual Causes of the Texas Disaster

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Mitch Jones, Policy Director at Food & Water Watch, takes a deep dive into the factors effecting the power and water supply failures in Texas during the recent winter storms in his recent article in the Institute for Public Accuracy “Actual Causes of the Texas Disaster“. He summarizes the failures as “the result of climate […]

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