‘Long Overdue’ LGBTQ Nondiscrimination Bill ‘PA Fairness Act’ Has One Last Hurdle in Pennsylvania Senate
Every Bucks County Republican state representative voted against the bill aiming to end LGBTQ discrimination.
Every Bucks County Republican state representative voted against the bill aiming to end LGBTQ discrimination.
The region has become a poorly planned hub of warehouses and logistics centers that threatens to contaminate clean drinking water for Pennsylvanians and cause irreversible environmental damage.
This national organizing effort is set to reach campuses from coast to coast, with demonstrations, labor organizing workshops, and other events focusing on worker justice.
While medical deportations are illegal, hospitals still deport patients anyway to save money – even if it puts the patient’s life at risk.
Teacher shortages can lead to larger class sizes, higher burnout and resignation rates, less individual time with teachers, and other factors leading to learning loss and other negative outcomes for students.
In North Carolina, Republican lawmakers have ignored for decades their State Supreme Court’s order to make their education funding scheme constitutional.
There is a digital rage mob to right-wing media and lawmakers pipeline that traffics in hate and harassment and often targets the LGBTQ community.
For pregnant people in states with little-to-no abortion access, Pennsylvania is a refuge. But the state has restrictions that can cause problems of its own.
LGBTQ youth are experiencing a mental health crisis and anti-LGBTQ policies and attitudes in school districts like Central Bucks aren’t helping.
“It’s a deep emotional ride, but I mean, the majority of us, people of color, we’re used to things like that happening,” said Conner about losing friends to gun violence.
Ehasz’s unwavering support for teachers and public education was highlighted in contrast to Republican incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick’s support for extremist Moms for Liberty-backed school board candidates.
Advocates for the unhoused in Bucks County weigh in on what this decision could mean for our most vulnerable community members.
The new federal standards demonstrate that the Biden administration takes clean water seriously and will continue to take necessary action to stop chemical manufacturers from endangering our most vulnerable residents.
“Keeping people in poverty is not how we move the Commonwealth forward – our current wage is immoral and unjustifiable,” said the Philadelphia County lawmaker.
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