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Medicare for All wins backing of conservative Southern Democrats

By Sue Sturgis

July 12, 2017 - A perennial bill to create a national single-payer public health insurance program has record support in this Congress. Though none of the cosponsors are Republicans, they include a growing number of conservative Southern Democrats, signaling a shift in health care politics.

Economy

Southern lawmakers earn low grades for efforts to address income inequality

By Sue Sturgis

October 5, 2012 - Though the South is the U.S. region with the greatest concentration of income inequality, its representatives in Washington are doing a poor job of bridging the gap.

Five ways courts say Texas discriminated against black and Latino voters

By ProPublica

September 5, 2012 - Separate federal panels struck down two Texas voting provisions. We look at examples of discrimination they found.

Medicare for All wins backing of conservative Southern Democrats

Southern lawmakers earn low grades for efforts to address income inequality

Five ways courts say Texas discriminated against black and Latino voters

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