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Families USA's State Reports Document Bush's Assault on State Economies and the Consequences of Being Uninsured

Adam Thompson on May 1, 2008 - 8:31am
Absent a national health care policy, states have found ways to expand the reach of Medicaid by covering more low-income, senior and disabled people and expanding the list of covered services.  Because of state action, 58 million Americans now have health coverage they would not otherwise possess.  To push back on the states, the Bush Administration put forward several new Medicaid regulations last year that, if implemented, will shift the burden and costs to states.  This will result in reduced benefits for millions of Americans unless already cash-strapped states find some way to pick up the slack - to the tune of $50 billion over five years.

Tough Wage Enforcement Law Approved in Iowa Senate; Anti-Immigrant Measures Rejected

Nathan Newman on April 17, 2008 - 9:10am
The Iowa Senate on Tuesday approved SF 2416, a bill to sharply increase fines on employers violating Iowa state wage laws, crack down on the practice of misclassifying employees as "independent contractors" to evade those laws, and protect workers reporting violations from retaliation.  

New York State legislators put forward boldest foreclosure legislation in nation

admin on March 7, 2008 - 7:41am
Brooklyn, NY - At a press conference this afternoon, New York State Representative James Brennan (D, Brooklyn) and State Senator Frank Padavan (R, Queens) unveiled a new bill that would place a one year moratorium on all court-ordered foreclosures in the state.

Mapping and Deploying High-Speed Broadband

PSN on February 11, 2008 - 9:59am
Despite claims by the Bush administration that most Americans now have access to affordable broadband, many people might disagree and would probably argue that their Internet access is to slow and to expensive.  Most analysts are nowhere near as optimistic as Bush's "Networked Nation: Broadband in America." These analysts highlight that the U.S. has fallen to 15th in world rankings for broadband connectivity and that Americans pay much higher fees for much slower speeds than most of the industrial nations in the world.  Misguided regulatory policies and substandard infrastructure have helped create a sub-parbroadband network in the United States.  

Aiding States to Stimulate the National Economy

Nathan Newman on January 24, 2008 - 11:33am
As Congress debates a stimulus to the economy in the wake of the housing bust, many economists are urging federal leaders to make aid to state governments a core part of the package. While direct tax rebates for individuals can help, it will not do much for the economy if states are forced to cut back on critical spending on public works, health care, and education at the same time. As Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who was also chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the 1990s, wrote this week in the New York Times:

Dealing with the Foreclosure Crisis at the State Level

J. Mijin Cha on January 14, 2008 - 11:22am
The statistics are shocking. The current mortgage crisis is expected to result in the foreclosure of 3 million homes. In Stockton, CA, one in every 27 homes has been hit by the foreclosure crisis. And, Countryside, the largest U.S. mortgage lender, just released figures showing that foreclosures and late payments rose in December to the highest on record. Calls to helplines by homeowners facing foreclosure have skyrocketed.  As a corollary, local animal shelters are seeing a sharp increase in intake due to owners having to surrender family pets when they lose their homes.

States Call for Moratorium on Home Foreclosures

J. Mijin Cha on January 3, 2008 - 9:57am

Not surprisingly, the Bush Administration's proposal for fixing the subprime lending crisis is an industry-led deal that involves completely voluntary actions to fix the current crisis and will ultimately help only a few of the millions of people who have either lost or are in danger of losing their homes.  With absolute failure at the federal level, it is again up to states to step in.  In two recent editorial pieces, the executive directors of the Progressive States Network and the Drum Major Institute called on New York Governor Spitzer to impose a six-month moratorium on foreclosures to stop the rapidly increasing rate of home loss, a policy all governors should enact. A moratorium would give lenders incentive to restructure loans on fair terms and fight back against the Wall-street backed predatory lenders.

State needs to halt home foreclosures

Austin Guest on December 31, 2007 - 5:17pm
By JOEL BARKIN and ANDREA BATISTA SCHLESINGER
published December 31, 2007
 
With the 2008 legislative session and his January State of the State speech approaching, Gov.

State needs to halt home foreclosures

admin on December 31, 2007 - 8:18am

Albany Times Union
Monday, December 31, 2007
by Joel Barkin and Anrdrea Batista Schlesinger

With the 2008 legislative session and his January State of the State speech approaching, Gov. Eliot Spitzer has the perfect opportunity to establish a clean slate and blast open the morass of partisan gridlock that has surrounded his most recent efforts at reform.

Ranking the States on Online Disclosure of Govt Contracts, Subsidies and Lobbying

Nathan Newman on November 15, 2007 - 9:44am
In the age of Google, citizens expect to be able to find core information on the Internet about government operations, but as a major new report being released today highlights, most states are failing on public transparency.