Chicken Little in the Voting Booth: The Non-Existent Problem of Non-Citizen Voter Fraud [1] - Fear over non-citizen voter fraud has reached a fever pitch as Tea Party groups across the country mobilize "ballot security" [2] operations in time for Election Day, and candidates [3] clash [4] over the hot-button [5] issue of whether to require voters to present photo ID at the polls. However, it is worth remembering that incidences of non-citizen voter fraud are actually quite rare. The latest fact sheet from the Immigration Policy Center [6] summarizes years of research from the Brennan Center, Project Vote, The New York Times, and other sources, which prove that these are all "solutions" in search of a problem.
Our Fiscal Security [7] - A project of the Century Foundation, Demos, and the Economic Policy Institute, Our Fiscal Security presents a dynamic framework for analyzing and thinking about the federal budget. The website will serve as a resource for progressive economic and federal fiscal analysis, featuring commentary, reports, and timely research.
State Data on Women & Poverty and Economic Insecurity - The National Women's Law Center (NWLC) recently released two state-by-state charts using recent Census data, one on women and poverty [8] and a second on broader indicators of economic insecurity [9]. The women and poverty chart [8] includes poverty rates for women, black women, Hispanic women, elderly women and single mother families. The economic insecurity chart [9] includes poverty rates for all people, children and single mother families as well as rates of unemployment, health insurance and the wage gap for each state. The NWLC released a thorough analysis of women’s poverty at a national level [10] as well.