2 high-stakes ballot measures could boost wages for nearly 1 million workers
Voters in two conservative states will have the chance to give hundreds of thousands of workers a pay raise in November. Ballot initiatives in Arkansas ...
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Government expansion of health care is on the ballot in the most unlikely places
The effort has also had some help from a progressive, Washington-based nonprofit called the Fairness Project, which has offered legal and logistical assistance to campaigns ...
Read postMedicaid-Expansion Fights Pit Hospitals, Labor Against Conservative Groups, Tobacco Companies
Voters in four states will decide Nov. 6 whether to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, with the initiatives spurring some $20 million in ...
Read postPutting Partisanship Aside, Arkansas Voters May Raise the Minimum Wage
This November, Arkansas voters will decide whether to increase the state’s hourly minimum wage from its current $8.50 to $11 by 2021. Only California and ...
Read postInside the Fight for Medicaid Expansion in America’s Reddest States
So far, the ACA has proved remarkably popular at the ballot box. Last year, Maine voters approved by an 18-point margin a measure to expand ...
Read postMeet the group funding the fight to expand Medicaid in red states
Voters in Idaho, Nebraska and Utah may have the chance to do something their state lawmakers would not: expand Medicaid to thousands of residents. After ...
Read postExpand-Medicaid Measures Move in Four Right-Leaning States
The Medicaid expansion campaigns in Idaho, Mon- tana, Nebraska and Utah have received substantial funding from The Fairness Project, a Washington, D.C., organization with national ...
Read postFall Elections Key Moment in Medicaid Expansion Debate
In Utah, volunteers have already gathered enough signatures to have the expansion question put on the ballot. It also seems likely in Idaho, though the ...
Read postThe case for raising the minimum wage keeps getting stronger
A wave of purple states — including Colorado, Arizona, and Maine — voted in wage hikes last election cycle. … A national group called the ...
Read post3 red states could put Medicaid expansion on the ballot this year
Medicaid expansion is back on the ballot. Organizers in Utah submitted signatures on Monday to put an initiative expanding Medicaid on the state’s ballot in ...
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