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How Partisan Gerrymandering Prevents Legislative Action on Gun Violence
Introduction and summary Public support for commonsense gun laws in the United States has been steadily increasing in recent years, due in large part to a seemingly ceaseless string of horrific mass...
View ArticleThe Impacts of Climate Change and the Trump Administration’s...
Just in the past three years, the Trump administration has attempted to roll back at least 95 environmental rules and regulations to the detriment of the environment and Americans’ public health....
View ArticleHow Partisan Gerrymandering Hurts Kids
Introduction and summary Gerrymandering is the practice of drawing district lines to unfairly favor particular politicians or political parties in elections.1 It is a political dirty trick—and an...
View ArticleAdvancing Clean Slate: The Need for Automatic Record Clearance During the...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led the United States into another recession and left millions of Americans without a job or means to support themselves or their families. The nation is seeing some of the...
View ArticleHow Partisan Gerrymandering Limits Voting Rights
Every 10 years, each U.S. state redraws its electoral districts—lines on a map that have serious real-world consequences. If districts are drawn fairly, then the public can elect representatives who...
View ArticleEliminating the Pennsylvania Rule That Bars Incarcerated Students From...
There is growing recognition that people in prison deserve access to higher education, and financial aid to pay for college in prison is key to that access. On July 31, 2020, the U.S. House of...
View ArticleViolent Crime Rates Declined in 10 Jurisdictions Following Comprehensive...
As calls for comprehensive police reform take front and center in the national conversation, policymakers may have concerns about whether such changes would lead to an increase in the incidence of...
View ArticlePennsylvania Needs the American Rescue Plan
Pennsylvania’s economy is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant economic recession. More than a year has passed since the first coronavirus case was detected in the United States, and...
View Article5 Discussions That Shaped the Justice Reform Movement in 2020
During summer 2020, the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and too many other Black Americans sparked a national dialogue around the failings of the U.S. criminal justice system. People...
View ArticleMillions Will Gain Nondiscrimination Protections Under the Equality Act
The current patchwork of legal protections in states across the country and the existing gaps in federal civil rights laws leave millions of LGBTQ people without protection from discrimination, harming...
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