The U.S. Supreme Court has just made a ruling that severely restricts the ACA requirement that employers provide contraceptive coverage for women.
Climate change, economic inequality and healthcare advances.
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Interested young people, people of all ages, and League members are invited to volunteer as assistant producers for the League Election 2014 programs. Between approximately August 15 and September 15, we'll be planning...
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There's finally some good news on the voting rights front in Congress. June 25, on the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision that gutted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act, the Senate will hold a he...
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On June 2, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced a proposal to set the first-ever limits on carbon emissions from existing power plants. Like the previous proposal to limit carbon emissions from new powe...
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Update after June 24, 2014 Council Meeting: The League-supported charter amendment to create a citizen redistricting commission for Berkeley will not be on the November 2014 ballot. A majority of the Council, incl...
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Prof. Robert Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley, will speak on “Inequality and the New Billionaire Political Bosses” at our September 4, 2014 Communit...
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