There’s good news from Harrisburg: In a lopsided 146-50 vote, Pennsylvania’s State Assembly passed HB 257, the long-stalled raise in the minimum wage. A large number of Republicans joined the solid Democrats on Wednesday to increase annual pay for the state’s lowest-wage workers by $4,000. Hourly pay would bump up to $6.15 [...]
Congratulations to Gov. Ed Rendell for standing up to the Republican-dominated state legislature in their attempt to limit voters’ rights! In a speech at the National Constitution Center, the Governor announced yesterday he would veto the bill passed by the state legislature that would make voting more cumbersome by requiring every voter to show [...]
Remember the first time you voted and had to show your ID? There’s new legislation requiring voters to remember to bring proper ID at every election. The state Senate and Assembly passed House Bill 1318 on party-line votes– with Republicans in favor of cracking down on teens who haven’t gotten drivers’ licenses, little old [...]
We already know that even South Africa is more progessive than the US in many ways. So its particularly disturbing that our leadership is actively seeking to turn back the clock on the social progress this nation has slowly made over the last half century and return to that idealized America that only exists [...]
South Africa is a truly remarkable country. Despite a long history of apartheid and general racial strife in the most ethnically diverse nation on the African continent, South Africa has the largest economy and the most modern infrastructure in the region. While we’ve seen the results of American supported reactionary criminal justice in [...]
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