The president and House Republicans are entertaining massive cuts to a program proven to reduce crime and make communities across the country healthier and safer.

President Trump has put Medicaid on the chopping block. Despite the White House’s promises that it would not make any cuts to the program, which provides one in five people nationwide with health care coverage, cuts would be all but certain if Trump’s budget agenda were to be implemented. If millions of people lost their access to Medicaid, the co ...

Voters should reject this plan on March 29.

On March 29, Louisiana voters will weigh in on Amendment 3, which would change the state constitution to remove the protections that keep most young people out of the adult criminal legal system. Louisiana already allows children to be sent to adult facilities on serious charges like murder or rape, but Amendment 3 would give the legislature power ...

State and local leaders are working to protect their communities from the immigration system’s degradation of human rights. Vera is offering grants to support new efforts.

Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump and his administration have made no secret of their plans to target immigrants, escalate a mass deportation agenda, expand United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations into schools, contract with for-profit prison companies to reopen shuttered detention centers, and detain people ...