The Best of the States: 13 Good, Progressive Bills Making Headway This Year (Alternet)

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Extreme right-wing legislation at the state level has gotten a lot of attention, but there are also some really good bills moving through state legislatures.

June 27, 2011 |


Editor's note: Last week, all eyes were on the New York state legislature's historic passage of a marriage equality bill -- the first in a GOP-controlled legislature. But as this report by the Progressive States Network reveals, it's not the only positive news coming out of the states.


From a non-stop assault on the rights of workers, immigrants, and women, to power grabs making it easier for corporations to influence the political process and harder for historically disenfranchised populations to vote, to balancing state budgets on the backs of children and the vulnerable by cutting schools and health care in order to give millionaires and CEOs even bigger tax cuts, the measures that grabbed headlines in the states this year have been almost uniformly bad news for the economic security of the vast majority of Americans.

But dig just a little beneath the headlines, and some glimmers of hope are clearly visible.

Full article here: http://www.alternet.org/news/151420/the_best_of_the_states:_13_good,_progressive_bills_making_headway_this_year_