12 Mar

California Tribes Hold Festive Launch For 2020 Census

A kickoff event for getting a full count of California’s Native American population in the 2020 Census featured heaps of swag, a free feast, a live band, dance performance, bingo...

05 Mar

Civil Rights Groups Offer Toll-Free Multilingual Census Hotlines For Questions, Concerns

As the 2020 Census gets underway, a group of four civil rights organizations is providing telephone hotlines in a range of languages to give people information and, when needed, legal...

02 Mar

FTC Says Everyone Needs to be Alert for Scams

Anyone, anywhere can find themselves victimized by a scam, a representative of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said....

25 Feb

2020 Census: LGBTQ FAQ

A FAQ column on/about LGBTQ issues and the census, written by Meghan Maury, director of the National LGBTQ Task Force and a leading census expert and advocate....

03 Feb

Disputed DHS ‘Public Charge’ Rule Becomes Effective Feb. 24

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says its controversial "public charge" rule will go into effect Feb. 24, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has lifted a nationwide preliminary injunction...

23 Jan

Kids Face Long-Term inequities If Census Doesn’t Count Them This Year

Above: Mayra Alvarez, president of Children's Partnership, warns of long-term effects that would result from an undercount of young children in the U.S. Census this year. Leader of nonprofit that advocates...

16 Dec

DACA Beneficiaries Could Stay in the US for Years

While hundreds of thousands of immigrants with DACA permits await the decision of the Supreme Court on the future of the program, lawyers and immigrant advocates argue that the vast...

13 Dec

Proposed Public Charge Rule Change, Tied Up In Court, Has Huge Chilling Effect On Immigrants

Federal courts have temporarily blocked the public charge rule change from going into effect, but its chilling effects continue to reverberate....

14 Nov

Khanna Supports DACA and Single-Payer Healthcare

Solving the nation's healthcare crisis is getting plenty of attention from Congress, Rep. Ro Khanna said in a wide-ranging 30-minute teleconference with journalists Tuesday....

18 Oct

‘Public Charge’ Immigration Rule On Hold, Still Sowing Fear

The implementation of the Department of Homeland Security’s rule changes regarding immigration cases — halted by a series of federal court injunctions this month — are still causing fear and...

09 Sep

New UCLA Study – State Makes Progress On Goal To Guarantee Water As a Human Right

In 2012, California became the first state in the country to declare that “Every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water” when the state legislature...

08 Sep

Uncertainty Looms as ‘Public Charge’ Rule Nears

Immigrant rights advocates joined a U.S. Congresswoman from California in sending a reassuring message to people worried about a controversial rule change to the "public charge" segments of the federal...

03 Sep

As Landmark Law Comes Up For Renewal— Civil Rights Leaders Urge Congress To Tackle Campus Injustices

A coalition of civil rights organizations has concrete suggestions for Congress as it considers how to update the 1965 Higher Education Act (HEA)....

02 Sep

Andrew Yang: “La Tecnología y la Automatización son el Problema”

Read in English Por Michael J. Fitzgerald El candidato a la presidencia Andrew Yang dijo que la tecnología no esta recibiendo suficiente atención cuando los estadounidenses buscan algo que culpar por sus...

08 Aug

Tulsi Gabbard says U.S. Needs Diplomacy, Not War

Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard says the U.S. needs far more sophisticated worldwide diplomatic efforts and a far less aggressive U.S. military stance....