The crisis is also taking a toll on the economy, costing $122 billion in lost wages, productivity and tax revenue in 2022 — more than twice as much as it did in 2018.
The law’s passage also dealt a blow to trans teens’ faith in Gov. Spencer Cox, who invoked the importance of acceptance while vetoing the state’s anti-trans sports bill last year.
The state’s women-dominated Supreme Court will have the final say on abortion access in the state — and the race could come down to two women judges.
Other mothers who have lost children to police joined the Nichols family and Vice President Kamala Harris in asking for "non-negotiable" policing reform legislation.
In response to backlash from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and education officials, the College Board made subjects like queer studies and intersectionality optional but not required.
Black history is all around us: within our families, in the ways we’ve educated ourselves about our people and our achievements, and how we choose to express ourselves.
The survey also showed that people in states with abortion bans thought they could not legally access emergency contraception either.
The law in Martha Wright-Reed's name calls on the FCC to better regulate the exorbitant costs of prison and jail phone calls for incarcerated people and their families.
Twenty-five women — among them attorneys, formerly incarcerated women and advocates — make up the inaugural class of the program.
The anti-abortion South Carolina Republican wants her party to welcome exceptions to abortion bans, back expanding access to contraception and find "common ground" with Democrats. It's not clear if anyone is listening.