by jpitney | Jan 16, 2022 | civic virtue, Public Service, Volunteering
Jeffrey M. Jones at Gallup: Eighty-one percent of Americans say they donated money to a religious or other charitable organization in the past year, and 56% volunteered time to such an organization. After dipping in April 2020 during the early stages of the...
by jpitney | Jan 15, 2022 | Civic Education, civic virtue
Gary Schmitt at AEI: A recent Washington Post poll has some 34 percent of U.S. adults saying that “violent action” against the government is “sometimes justified.” If more than a third of “adults” are willing to hold such a view, it is not difficult to imagine how an...
by jpitney | Jan 14, 2022 | Civic Education, Misinformation
Mark Walsh at Education Week: Students asserting the right to an adequate civics education have lost their appeal of a federal court ruling that dismissed their suit accusing the state of Rhode Island of failing to prepare them for the duties of citizenship. Like the...
by jpitney | Jan 13, 2022 | Polarization, Violence
Political scientist Jay Ulfelder at The Harvard Gazette: What really worries me is we absolutely have seen the radicalization of one of the major political parties in the U.S., both in terms of the political ideas it’s putting forward, but also, its embrace of...
by jpitney | Jan 12, 2022 | Congress, Public Service, Staff, Youth
Layla Zaidane at The Fulcrum: Millennials are sweeping into public office: From 2018 to 2020, the United States saw a 266 percent increase in young people running for Congress. In 2021, young people made history with candidates like Nadarius Clark, the youngest...
by jpitney | Jan 11, 2022 | Congress, House of Representatives
At Axios, Hans Nichols (who attended CMC for his freshman year) reports on proxy voting: Why it matters: Proxy voting was enacted to allow representatives to reduce their risk of contracting the virus, but it has also undercut the convening of the People’s House...
by jpitney | Jan 10, 2022 | Civility
In Upstate New York, a release from Stewart’s Shops: This pandemic has gone on longer than expected and people seem more frustrated and stressed than ever before. A report published in the Washington Post, “Civility in America”, cited that 93 percent of...
by jpitney | Jan 9, 2022 | Civility, Religion
Could the decline of #religion in communities be at fault for the decrease in civility? Read what our panelist @LaraMBrownPhD had to say about it. pic.twitter.com/1lwRRRYae7 — To The Contrary (@ToTheContrary) January 8, 2022
by jpitney | Jan 8, 2022 | Congress, Public Service, Staff
William Gray at LegBranch.org: In 2011, the Congressional Management Foundation surveyed more than 1,400 congressional staff and asked an open-ended question: What does working in Congress mean to you? They received more than 600 responses and the answers are just as...
by jpitney | Jan 6, 2022 | House of Representatives, Insurrection
I am deeply disappointed at the failure of many members of my party to recognize the grave nature of the January 6 attacks and the ongoing threat to our nation.” – Former VP Dick Cheney (2/2) — Rep. Liz Cheney (@RepLizCheney) January 6, 2022 Anyone who denies...
