State Lawmakers Nationwide Are Voting to Increase Their Pay

Text - S.766 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Pay Teachers Act

Nationwide, 39.7 percent of local educational agencies pay their starting ... “(B) A description of the State's plan to increase the State's per-pupil ...

Kansas lawmakers approve 93% pay increases for themselves

Kansas is set to nearly double state legislators' pay at the start of next year, making their compensation better than it is for their counterparts in a ...

New Polling on Child Care and the 2024 Election

The poll, which surveyed registered voters nationwide and registered voters in battleground Senate states ... states to expand their ...

March 2024 firefighter pay, series update | US Forest Service

... the information needed regarding Congress's ability to enact permanent pay increases. ... the locality pay for the “rest of the United States”). All GS-3 ...

Hochul Can Block Legislative Pay Raise

New York legislators yesterday voted to raise their salary to $142,000 in a lame-duck special session. This was their first such vote since ...

History of Changes to the Minimum Wage Law

In 1974, Congress included under the FLSA all no supervisory employees of Federal, State, and local governments and many domestic workers. (Subsequently, in ...

Harvard Youth Poll

... Congress (24% approval) trail their Democratic colleagues by 10 ... As the number of young people likely to vote has increased in the ...

Election Official Turnover Rates from 2000-2024

State legislatures should work with their state and local election officials to identify and fill resource gaps, and the U.S. Congress ...

Voting Laws Roundup: May 2021 | Brennan Center for Justice

There are 32 bills moving in 16 states that would expand voter registration opportunities. ... Ten bills would establish automatic voter ...

House Passes Massive Elections Reform Bill That Would Expand ...

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a massive elections reform bill supported by U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) to protect and ...

Public funding of presidential elections - FEC

The 1040 federal income tax form asks taxpayers whether they'd like to designate $3 of their taxes paid to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. When ...

Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.

For State Lawmakers, Secrecy May Pay

New York state legislators may get a raise on January 1, 2021—but the people who elect them may not get to find out before voting ends next ...

Minimum & Living Wage - Every Job Should Pay a Living Wage

Fifteen states plus the District of Columbia currently index minimum wage increases each year: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, ...

Weed, wages and same-sex marriage: The most intriguing ballot ...

Across the U.S. in November, voters will weigh proposals on election policies, minimum wage increases and marijuana legalization.

An analysis of statewide election recounts, 2000-2023 - FairVote

In Nevada's 2022 Republican gubernatorial primary, Joey Gilbert's campaign paid $190,000 to recount votes in all 17 of the state's counties ...

Voting Rights: A Short History - Carnegie Corporation of New York

Congress passed a law extending the Voting Rights Act for another 25 years. As part of the extension, Congress required states to take steps to make voting more ...

A Threat to Our Democracy: Election Subversion in the 2021 ...

... voting rights, with some discouraging setbacks occurring in state legislatures across the country. ... 413, increases the Secretary of State's ...

The Power of One Vote - Center for American Progress

A recent election in California demonstrates just how close elections can be, even in a state where there are 22,171,899 registered voters.77.

League of Women Voters: Home

The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization working to protect and expand voting rights and ensure everyone is represented in our ...