Finalized Clean Power Plan Outlines Key Ways to Stop Climate Change (Blog) 8/5/2015 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the final version of the Clean Power Plan - the first ever limits on carbon pollution from power…
BREAKING NEWS: EPA Announces Final Carbon Regulation (Blog) 8/3/2015 Today is an EXCITING day! The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its Clean Power Plan—the first ever limits on carbon pollution from…
Medicaid and Medicare Turn 50 (Blog) 7/28/2015 Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments into law thereby creating two of our most influential…
Finding the Elections Information I Craved (Blog) 7/22/2015 Editorial Note: This blog post was written by our intern, Elizabeth Ahrens After the months of endless campaigning during the 2012 presidential…
Meet the League: Cynthia Sebian-Lander (Blog) 7/17/2015 In honor of 95 years of Making Democracy Work®, LWVVUS staff members are sharing stories about their work with the League. Cynthia Sebian-Lander,…
Challenge to the Country’s Most Restrictive Voting Law Heads to Court (Blog) 7/15/2015 In 2013, just six weeks after the United States Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) that ensured certain states were…
Celebrate the 4th of July by Making Democracy Work (Blog) 7/3/2015 Independence Day marks the birth of our nation and the signing of the Declaration of Independence that outlined the key tenets that our Constitution…
Can a Rally Help Restore the Voting Rights Act? (Blog) 6/29/2015 Two years ago, a U.S. Supreme Court decision overturned a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 allowing an outright attack on voting…
Key Win at the Supreme Court on Health Care Tax Subsidies (Blog) 6/25/2015 Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in King v. Burwell, a case about whether tax-credit subsidies can be provided to…
Two Years Later-- Tell Congress to Restore the Voting Rights Act (Blog) 6/25/2015 Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA) into law. The VRA was a cornerstone achievement of the civil rights…