Tell Your Rep to Vote No to Attack on National Forests

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From Appalachian Voices (http://www.appvoices.org/): Our eastern national forests—including many of the wildest, most beautiful and sensitive places in our central and southern Appalachian Mountains—are facing a grave threat. These beloved forests provide clean drinking water, support local economies with recreation … Continued

A Light at the End of the Tunnel for Juvenile Lifers in Pennsylvania

Posted at https://medium.com/@glennEmartin/a-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-for-juvenile-lifers-in-pennsylvania-33975c63a6d7 By Glenn E. Martin, JustLeadershipUSA On Labor Day 2017, Giovanni Jerry Reid of Philadelphia was released from Graterford Prison in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He had served 26 years of a life sentence without possibility of parole, imposed … Continued

Let the Government Negotiate Drug Prices—and Use Savings to Bolster ACA

From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): In EPI’s Working Economics blog, EPI’s Bivens lauds Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Democratic colleagues in the Senate and the House for pushing meaningful health care reform by introducing the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation … Continued