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The Nineteenth Amendment and Women’s Suffrage Part 6: Impacts Beyond the Supreme Court
Congressional Research Service · 2023-01-13 · Posts · 550 words · PDF available
This Legal Sidebar is the last in a six-part series that discusses the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which recognized women’s voting rights. Shortly before Election Day 2022, a group of pe...
The Nineteenth Amendment and Women’s Suffrage Part 1: Introduction
Congressional Research Service · 2023-01-13 · Posts · 500 words · PDF available
This Legal Sidebar is the first in a six-part series that discusses the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which recognized women’s voting rights. Shortly before Election Day 2022, a group of p...
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Water Infrastructure Programs and FY2023 Appropriations
Congressional Research Service · 2023-01-13 · Resources · 1,408 words · PDF available
Many policymakers and stakeholders have raised concerns about the condition of the nation’s local drinking water and wastewater infrastructure and the financial challenges that communities may confron...
Earthquakes Induced by Underground Fluid Injection and the Federal Role in Mitigation
Congressional Research Service · 2023-01-13 · Reports · 13,721 words · PDF available
Human activities, including underground fluid injection activities, may cause earthquakes (known as induced earthquakes). Underground fluid injection activities, such as hydraulic fracturing for oil a...
The Nineteenth Amendment and Women’s Suffrage Part 4: The Progressive Era and Ratification
Congressional Research Service · 2023-01-13 · Posts · 1,103 words · PDF available
This Legal Sidebar is the fourth in a six-part series that discusses the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which recognized women’s voting rights. Shortly before Election Day 2022, a group of ...
The Nineteenth Amendment and Women’s Suffrage Part 3: The Reconstruction Era
Congressional Research Service · 2023-01-13 · Posts · 1,019 words · PDF available
This Legal Sidebar is the third in a six-part series that discusses the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which recognized women’s voting rights. Shortly before Election Day 2022, a group of p...
The Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF): State Insolvency and Federal Loans to States
Congressional Research Service · 2023-01-13 · Reports · 5,273 words
States have a great deal of autonomy in how they establish and run their unemployment insurance programs. However, federal law requires states to pay Unemployment Compensation (UC) benefits promptly. ...
The Nineteenth Amendment and Women’s Suffrage Part 2: The Founding Era and the Civil War
Congressional Research Service · 2023-01-13 · Posts · 539 words · PDF available
This Legal Sidebar is the second in a six-part series that discusses the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which recognized women’s voting rights. Shortly before Election Day 2022, a group of ...
The Nineteenth Amendment and Women’s Suffrage Part 5: Supreme Court Interpretations
Congressional Research Service · 2023-01-13 · Posts · 583 words · PDF available
This Legal Sidebar is the fifth in a six-part series that discusses the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which recognized women’s voting rights. Shortly before Election Day 2022, a group of p...
Federal Economic Development Resources for Food Businesses and Systems: In Brief
Congressional Research Service · 2023-01-13 · Reports · 5,525 words · PDF available
Community initiatives to improve local and regional food systems often focus on efforts to increase the consumption, production, distribution, and development of products within a particular geographi...