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 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 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 | Dec 9, 2021 | California Politics, Public Service, Vaccine
Cheryl Clark at Medpage Today: The president of the Medical Board of California described a “terrifying” ambush, threats, and intimidation from four men she said were wearing jackets indicating they were part of “America’s Frontline...
by jpitney | Dec 7, 2021 | Congress, Polarization, Public Service
At AEI, Kevin Kosar talks to Stanford political scientist Andrew Hall: So what, according to your research, is driving polarization in the House? To explain polarization, we have to answer the question: Where have all the moderate candidates gone? My argument...
by jpitney | Nov 29, 2021 | civic virtue, Public Service, Texas
🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/CKIYE7V6v6 — Matthew McConaughey (@McConaughey) November 29, 2021
