Politics

September 24, 2009 - A new study uses post-Katrina data to examine the wide and stark disparities in the life expectancy, educational attainment, and incomes of African Americans and whites in Louisiana.

September 22, 2009 - Local lawmakers across the South are stepping up to weigh in on the health care debate.

September 21, 2009 - Last week's decision by Congress to to bar federal funding to ACORN was notable not only for the lopsided vote margins (83-7 in the Senate, 345-75 in the House) but also be

September 18, 2009 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted yesterday to cut off federal funds to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now or ACORN, a national grassroots group that advocates for poor and modest-income families. The House vote of 345 to 75 came three days after the Senate cut off Housing and Urban Development funding to the group.

September 18, 2009 - The voter ID debate was reeneergized Thursday when the Indiana Court ofAppeals struck down the Indiana state law requiring voters to showidentification, considered the strictest voter ID law of its kind inthe country. As Facing South has reported, voter ID legislation was a hot-button andcontentious issue across the country during the 2008 campaign season.Earlier this year, in state legislatures across the South and around

September 18, 2009 - Arkansas Democrats Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Rep.

September 18, 2009 - By Christian Smith-Socaris, Progressive States Network