[Housing Discrimination\HUD]
Congresswoman Maxine Waters: “Last year, our nation experienced an 8 percent uptick in reported complaints of housing discrimination, increasing from 28,843 in 2017 to 31,202 in 2018—the highest annual number ever recorded by the National Fair Housing Alliance.”
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[Healthcare\Legal\Texas v. United States]
AFT President Weingarten: “In the richest nation in the world, this ruling could take us backward to times when healthcare was simply out of reach for too many working people.”
Virginia Rep. Scott: “Republican attorneys general and the Trump administration took another step toward stripping access to affordable health care from millions of Americans.”
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[Immigration\USCIS Fee Hikes]
Senator Zellnor Y. Myrie: “The Administration’s proposed actions will do direct harm to immigrant communities and are only the latest in a record of harmful and discriminatory immigration policies.”
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[Banking\FDIC]
Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez: “Simply put, the Trump Administration is letting banks off the hook and diluting a program that is vital to preventing racist discrimination in the financial services sector.”
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[Congress\Puerto Rico\Hurricane Maria]
Rep. Lowery: “More than 2 years after Hurricane Maria destroyed their homes, businesses, and public infrastructure, the American people of Puerto Rico are still without much-needed relief and recovery assistance because of perpetual – and illegal – stonewalling by this administration.”
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[Congressional News\ SNAP]
Rep. Marcia L. Fudge: “Instead of considering hungry individuals and their unique struggles and needs, the Department has chosen to paint them with the broadest brush, demonizing them as lazy and undeserving. The President has cynically weaponized USDA as a blunt political instrument, in clear opposition to its mission to ‘do right and feed everyone.’ USDA has sunk to a new low in its war on the poor.”
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[Native American News\”Broken Promises” Report]
The report’s key findings build on the alarming concerns raised in the 2003 report Quiet Crisis: Federal Funding and Unmet Needs in Indian Country, which exposed the government’s lack of investment in Indian Country…The federal government has failed to keep accurate and comprehensive records of federal spending on Native American programs, making monitoring of federal spending difficult. As a result of these failures, Native Americans continue to rank near the bottom of all Americans in terms of health, education, justice, and employment.
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[Supreme Court News\DACA]
New York Attorney General Letitia James: “I am proud to stand with California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and all the other groups who have fought tirelessly to protect DACA. Together, we are jointly opposing the Trump Administration’s arbitrary and capricious attempt to put the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals in jeopardy.
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[Immigration News\DACA]
Warren Seigel, MD, FAAP, Chair of NYSAAP: “The proposed rule eliminating DACA status would put 6,900 New York U.S. citizen children, whose parents are currently DACA recipients in severe jeopardy,” he added. “Breaking up New York State families based on faulty immigration policy is antithetical to good pediatric care.”
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[Immigration\Supreme Court]
Adobe’s Dana Rao: “Adobe would not be the company it is today without our rich diversity of employees, and that continued diversity is vital to our future. Today we’re proud to join 100+ other businesses signing the Coalition for the American Dream’s amicus brief, supporting more than 800,000 DACA recipients who contribute to U.S. companies and the economy.”
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