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  • Report: US fails in funding obligation to Native Americans

    12/21/2018 3:29:10 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 46 replies
    Associated Press ^ | December 20, 2018 | Felicia Fonseca
    A new report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights finds that funding levels for Native American tribes are woefully inadequate despite the federal government’s responsibility to provide for education, public safety, health care and other services under treaties, laws and other acts. The report made public Thursday is a follow-up to a 2003 report that described the shortfalls as a quiet crisis. Funding has remained mostly flat since then, leaving tribes unable to tackle an epidemic of suicide, high dropout rates, violence against women and climate change, for example, the report said. Commission Chairwoman Catherine Lhamon said she believes...
  • Republicans Passed the 1957 Civil Rights Act

    09/09/2010 12:58:48 PM PDT · by Michael Zak · 9 replies
    Grand Old Partisan ^ | September 9, 2010 | Michael Zak
    During the five terms of the FDR and Truman presidencies, the Democrats did not propose any civil rights legislation. President Dwight Eisenhower, in contrast, asked his Attorney General to write the first federal civil rights legislation since the Republican Party’s 1875 Civil Rights Act. On this day fifty-three years ago, President Eisenhower signed the 1957 Civil Rights Act into law. Many Democrats in the Senate filibustered the bill, but strong Republican support ensured passage. Score one for America!