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Editorial: PA Legislature Dishonestly Curbs the Right to Choose

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Editorial: PA Legislature Dishonestly Curbs the Right to Choose

By The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette   Pennsylvania legislators have made another dent in women’s reproductive freedom. House Bill 818, passed by the House in April and the Senate last week, is awaiting Gov. Tom Corbett’s signature, expected this week. It promises to prohibit health insurance plans offered through the Pennsylvania insurance exchange from covering abortions except in…

Sandoval vetoes extending voter registration

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Sandoval vetoes extending voter registration

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval has said no to extending voter registration deadlines in Nevada. The Republican governor late Friday vetoed AB440, along with three other bills. The measure would have extended Nevada’s voter registration deadlines to the Friday before a primary or general election through early voting. If someone registered…

Obama Plan Would Stop Student Loan Hikes

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Obama Plan Would Stop Student Loan Hikes

“If Congress doesn’t act by July 1, federal student loan rates are set to double,” the president said on Friday BY KATIE MCDONOUGH Addressing an audience of students in the White House Rose Garden on Friday, President Obama urged Congress to pass a new measure that will prevent rates on government-subsidized student loans from doubling come…

Obama pitches health care exchanges in Calif. visit

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Obama pitches health care exchanges in Calif. visit

Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday highlighted a concentrated, localized strategy to encourage young Americans to enroll in the new health care exchanges. “Competition and choice are pushing down costs in the individual market, just like the law is designed to do,” Obama said during remarks in San Jose, Calif. California is one…

Why Mississippi May Be the Worst State for Women

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Why Mississippi May Be the Worst State for Women

BY MICHELLE GOLDBERG By several objective measures, Mississippi is one of our worst states. It has the nation’s highest poverty rate, its second-highest teen pregnancy rate, and its highest teen birth rate. An Education Week report ranks its schools 48 out of 50. Only Louisiana locks up a higher percentage of its people. Its infant mortality rate—9.67 deaths per 1,000 live births, the…

Gov Christie's Real Special Election Motive? Voter Suppression

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Gov Christie's Real Special Election Motive? Voter Suppression

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had two options for filling the Senate seat vacated by the late progressive hero Senator Frank Lautenberg: hold a special election on November 5th, the date of the 2013 general election, or appoint a placeholder and hold the election as regularly scheduled in November 2014. Christie stunned the country by doing…

Women's Rights Are Human Rights

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Women's Rights Are Human Rights

I wanted to pass along this excellent post from my colleague, Governor Cuomo. Our states share a commitment to addressing gender-based economic discrimination. Read it below or here at The Huffington Post. -Gov. Peter Shumlin, Chair, Democratic Governors Association   Restoring New York as a Leader in Women’s Rights By Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor, New…

Gov. Jerry Brown is poised for a big victory

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Gov. Jerry Brown is poised for a big victory

June 02, 2013 | George Skelton | Capitol Journal SACRAMENTO — California is close to making the most sweeping change in how it spends money on schools since Ronald Reagan was governor four decades ago. And Gov. Jerry Brown is on the verge of a monumental personal triumph — a legacy builder, for better or worse. Nobody really…

Virginia candidate E.W. Jackson: Yoga leads to Satan

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Virginia candidate E.W. Jackson: Yoga leads to Satan

By TAL KOPAN at Politico E.W. Jackson, the Virginia GOP candidate for lieutenant governor, suggested that yoga could open individuals to Satan, according to a report. Accompanying a profile of Jackson, who has been a thorn in the side of GOP gubernatorial hopeful Ken Cuccinelli, the National Review’s Betsy Woodruff on Wednesday posted excerpts of Jackson’s 2008 book, “Ten Commandments…

Iowa Bill would give Governor the right to deny Medicaid reimbursements to poor women

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Iowa Bill would give Governor the right to deny Medicaid reimbursements to poor women

BY NORA CAPLAN-BRICKER The 2014 budget for Iowa’s Department of Human Services is sitting on Republican Governor Terry Branstad’s desk right now, awaiting his signature, and buried within the bill is an amendment that would give his pen an extraordinary power: the right to deny Medicaid reimbursements to poor women who’ve had medically necessary abortions. By U.S.…

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