The Child Care Funding Crisis
Across the U.S., states are quietly cutting child care funding, including by slashing the rates they pay providers on behalf of low-income families. To Ruth Friedman, the child care crisis, put simply, “disrupts parents’ employment, reduces earnings and savings, and…
Michigan’s “Pregnancy Exclusion” Law
Under the Michigan Estates and Protected Individuals Code, a person can designate a patient advocate to determine their medical care, should they be unable to make or communicate their own decisions. Michigan thus offers a critical protection of our rights…
ICE’s Harm to Pregnant Immigrants and their Children
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues its reign of terror across the U.S. Families are being torn apart; communities are on edge as person after person is abducted in violent, racist raids. The fear of being deported or…
Our Human Rights are Under Attack, but What Does That Actually Mean?
Once again, President Trump’s administration is making history for all the wrong reasons. On August 28, the United States withdrew from the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. This marks the first time in UPR history that a United Nations Member…
Censorship Behind Bars
In 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1078 into law. Now, school curricula in the state are protected from gender- and race-based book bans. Certainly, this is a good thing; fighting censorship at every turn is critical to protecting…
Michigan’s “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act”
Michigan Republican State Rep. Josh Schriver has proposed the “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act” (Bill 4938): a censorship bill that is as draconian as it is absurd. Bill 4938 would prohibit the distribution of all online porn, with limited scientific,…