Social Justice
MAKING EL DORADO COUNTY A BETTER PLACE FOR ALL OF US
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Youth Franchise: The Forgotten Sixties Movement
Absent from popular memory and most scholarly histories of the 1960s is the youth franchise movement, which achieved the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1971. This amendment gave the right to vote to 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds and prohibited discrimination in voting “on account of age.” Proposed, passed, and ratified fifty years ago, it was the last time the United States significantly expanded and protected voting rights.
Opponents Team Up Against Voting Rights
In the week that we have commemorated Martin Luther King’s birthday, I found myself thinking about a football coach. In 1990, the voters of Arizona rejected a ballot measure that would have established a state holiday honoring the birth of the great civil rights icon.
NONPROFIT SPOTLIGHT: HOUSING EL DORADO
There is no question that availability of affordable housing is a problem throughout the state of California, and El Dorado County is no exception. The cost of existing housing coupled with the lack of affordable housing units is one factor, among many, driving homelessness in the county.