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Portside moderators Portside
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Voting Laws Roundup 2019

Brennan Center for Justice
D.C. isn’t the only place where there’s momentum for expanding access to the ballot.

Are We Prepared to Pay the Price for Farmworker Justice?

Olivia Heffernan Open Democracy
Migrant farmworkers picking cabbages in Ohio.
By romanticizing local farms and assuming that ‘local’ means ‘moral,’ many miss the fact that whether produce is sent to a giant warehouse or a ‘farm to table’ restaurant, the farmworkers are denied the protections granted all other hourly workers.

Rural Communities Don't Use Uber and Lyft

Aditi Shrikant Vox
Transportation experts see Uber and Lyft as the future. But rural communities still don’t use them. Only 19 percent of Americans in rural areas use ride-hailing apps.