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Alaska Voters Will Really Surprise You

Alaska has voted Republican in every presidential election but one since it became a state. But now voters are about to pass one of the most progressive and pro-worker ballot measures in the country.

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Potential Impacts of a Full Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers in Massachusetts

Jeanette Wicks-Lim and Jasmine Kerrissey Political Economy Research Institute
Massachusetts will vote on Question 5 to eliminate a subminimum wage for tipped workers. This brief describes the workers who will be directly affected by eliminating the subminimum wage & considers impact on job quality, employment, costs & prices.

Ballot Initiatives Activate Voters, Change the Landscape

Chris Melody Fields Figueredo Convergence Magazine
Ballot initiatives offer a tool “to not only block authoritarian rule and ideology, but to build a world where all of us thrive and live with dignity — the world we deserve.”

Florida Activists Aim To Put Abortion Rights on the Ballot

Regan McCarthy NPR
A Florida Supreme Court decision is expected to trigger a six-week ban passed by the Republican-led state legislature. But an effort is now underway to enshrine the right to abortion in Florida's constitution up to the point of fetal viability.

Initiative Campaigns Bridge Partisan Divides

Benjamin Case Convergence
Voters on opposite sides of the partisan divide agree on policy far more than we realize. Initiative campaigns can inform a strategy to win changes we need and build a base for people-centered power.
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