Progress on actions featured in the Americans of Conscience Checklist:
- The Biden-Harris administration moves to remove medical debt from most credit reports and to prevent financial institutions from making lending decisions based on personal medical information.
- Maryland’s Gov. Wes Moore pardons 175,000 non-violent, cannabis-related convictions, improving the employment, housing, and educational opportunities of those pardoned.
- A federal court rules that a Florida state law banning gender-affirmative care for minors and hindering care for adults is unconstitutional.
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- Lisa Goree is elected chair of the Shinnecock Indian Nation’s Council of Trustees, becoming the first woman to chair the council in over 200 years.
- The Labor Dept. publishes a final rule making it harder to misclassify employees as independent contractors which will prevent denials of minimum wage, overtime pay, and other worker protections.
- Alabama passes legislation protecting access to IVF.
- The White House announces a new program to keep 550,000 immigrants with their families in the United States while applying for their green card.
- Phoenix’s homelessness rate drops for the first time since 2017.
- Al Otro Lado opens a welcome center at the U.S.-Mexico border to provide resources and information about next steps to those recently deported from the U.S.
- A former Girl Scouts troop makes and sells bracelets to raise money for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, a U.S.-based charity humanitarian aid charity.
- France enshrines abortion rights in their constitution.
- Students at Occidental College can partake in Campaign Semesters during election years and participate in a political campaign of their choice.
- 17-year-old Kamora Freeland becomes one of the youngest licensed Black pilots in the country.
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