How Current Transportation Policy Affects Access to Health Care
The following is excerpted from a new report by The Leadership Conference Education Fund entitled “The Road to Health Care Parity: Transportation Policy and Access to Health Care” (April 2011). Lack of...
View ArticleAmerican Pedestrians Are Put in Harm’s Way
By Sergio Azcona, a Spring intern Between 2000 and 2009, an accident occurred on average every seven minutes along America’s roads. No, they were not driving, they were walking. And the fatality rate...
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Transportation Equity Connects Us All
By Suzi Gao, a summer intern Colorado advocates consider the transportation needs of their state. The latest federal proposals on how to spend our dollars have undesirably diminished the single thing...
View ArticleRaquel Nelson and the Fatal Cost of Transportation Inequality
By Suzi Gao, a summer intern In the stark and unfortunate circumstances of the recent Raquel Nelson case, Americans should pay attention to the need for pedestrian-friendly streets and other needed...
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Transportation Equity Creates Jobs for Our Communities
By Colleen Cowgill, a fall intern As Congress considers the president’s job creation package, the role of transportation and infrastructure in policy-making was highlighted on Friday afternoon at a...
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Americans Support Infrastructure Spending, Will Congress Pass a Bill?
I saw this chart over at Matt Yglesias’ place. Image from Matt Yglesias at ThinkProgress Eighty percent of those polled say that we should spend money on infrastructure. Keep that in mind next week...
View ArticleHundreds Make ‘Pilgrimage’ for New Transit Line and Local Jobs in Baltimore
By Colleen Cowgill, a Fall 2011 intern More than 400 people recently gathered on a Saturday for a ‘pilgrimage’ along part of a new Baltimore transit line, which is predicted to begin construction in...
View ArticleCivil Rights News: Higher Ed Reform, Young Homeless DC Parents,...
Obama and college presidents to discuss affordability Jenna Johnson, The Washington Post President Obama met with several university and college presidents in a closed door meeting. The group met to...
View ArticleCivil Rights News: Transportation Law Controversy; Latino Voters React to...
Compiled by Maddie Peare, a Summer 2012 Leadership Conference Education Fund Intern URBAN NATION: Cities Losing Out in Transportation Bill Debate By Ben Adler Next American City Currently, the House...
View ArticleCivil Rights News: Health Care Reform Upheld; Women Suffering Under Arizona...
Compiled by Rachel Barr, a Summer 2012 Leadership Conference Education Fund Intern Supreme Court Lets Health Law Largely Stand Adam Liptak And John H. Cushman Jr. The New York Times In an historic...
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