A Tale Of Two Efforts To Improve Confidence In U.S. Elections
Efforts to boost public confidence in U.S. elections are proceeding on two parallel tracks right now. One is moving slowly, but steadily. The other is hardly moving at all. Most of the attention has...
View Article'Nothing Going On' With Trump Voter Fraud Commission Due To Multiple Lawsuits
The work of President Trump's commission studying voter fraud and other voting problems has been stalled by the eight lawsuits filed against it, according to one commission member. Indiana's Republican...
View ArticleNonprofits Fear House Republican Tax Bill Would Hurt Charitable Giving
House Republicans say the tax bill they introduced Thursday will grow the economy, create jobs and simplify tax returns, in part by eliminating tax deductions. "Over 90 percent of Americans will be...
View ArticleA Year After Russia Meddling, Off-Year Elections Are Monitored
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: It is Election Day today, and voters are going to the polls in New Jersey, Virginia, also several other states. This is, of course, a year...
View ArticleHomeless Population Rises, Driven By West Coast Affordable-Housing Crisis
Homelessness in the United States went up slightly this year for the first time since 2010. During a one-night count in January, 553,742 people were found living outside or in shelters across the...
View ArticleAs Temperatures Fall, No Halt To Evictions Across Most Of The Country
Christine Thompson is eager to leave the two bedroom apartment she rents in a shabby house on the north side of Milwaukee. There are so many things wrong with the place. "In the bathroom I have to turn...
View ArticleTrump Dissolves Presidential Commission On Voter Fraud
President Trump dissolved the presidential commission he established last year to investigate claims of voter fraud in the 2016 election. Multiple states have refused to comply with the commission's...
View ArticleWhy Affordable Housing Could Become Harder To Find
Poor families in the United States are having an increasingly difficult time finding an affordable place to live, due to high rents, static incomes and a shortage of housing aid. Tenant advocates worry...
View ArticleTrump Official On Russian Hacking: 'A National Security Issue'
President Trump has shown little interest in fighting the threat of Russians hacking U.S. elections. He's shown a lot of interest in fighting voter fraud, something he insists — without evidence — is...
View ArticleCybertraining Election Officials For This Year's Voting
If anyone knows how easily voting can be disrupted, it's a county election supervisor in the state of Florida. That's one reason several dozen of them gathered in Orlando recently to discuss ways to...
View ArticleJoining The Poll Worker Army On Election Day's Front Lines
On Nov. 6, I'll join almost a million other Americans who have volunteered — for a minimal fee — to help man the polls. It's an extraordinary thing when you think about it. This army bands together for...
View ArticleSome Noncitizens Do Wind Up Registered To Vote, But Usually Not On Purpose
About five years ago, immigration attorneys started contacting Pennsylvania election officials to report that many of their clients had gone to get a driver's license and, a few weeks later, received a...
View ArticleReport: Child Poverty Could Be Cut In Half Over 10 Years, At A Hefty Price
Child poverty in the U.S. could be cut in half over the next 10 years with a few simple steps, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The cost...
View ArticleExaggerating Voting Issues May Juice A Base — But It Also 'Undermines Our...
The House on Friday approved a sweeping measure that would, among many others things, expand voters' access to the polls. But Senate Republican leaders say that chamber will not take up the bill,...
View ArticleMore Than 750,000 Could Lose Food Stamps Under Trump Administration Proposal
Three-quarters of a million people would likely lose their food stamps later this year under a new proposal by the Trump administration. The goal is to encourage able-bodied adults to go to work and...
View ArticleReport: Voter Rolls Are Growing Owing To Automatic Voter Registration
The United States is almost alone among industrial countries and other democracies in putting most of the onus of registering to vote on individual voters, a sometimes cumbersome process that may...
View ArticleMueller Report Raises New Questions About Russia's Hacking Targets In 2016
While the headlines about special counsel Robert Mueller's report have focused on the question of whether President Trump obstructed justice, the report also gave fresh details about Russian efforts to...
View ArticleTrips To Vegas And Chocolate-Covered Pretzels: Election Vendors Come Under...
It is likely to be a banner year for the voting equipment industry with state and local election offices planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on new machines ahead of the 2020 election....
View ArticleTrump Administration Considering Changes That Would Redefine The Poverty Line
The Trump administration is considering changing the way the government measures poverty, which has anti-poverty groups worried that many low-income individuals will be pushed off assistance programs...
View ArticleTrump Administration Wants To Cut Funding For Public Housing Repairs
Mold. Leaks. Rodents. Crime. These are just some of the things the nation's 2 million public housing residents have to worry about. Many of the buildings they live in have been falling into disrepair...
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