Amendment 4 needs 60 percent support to pass. Organizers are fanning out across the state to get the votes.
Ramenda Cyrus
Ramenda Cyrus is a freelance reporter and writer based in Florida, and a former Prospect writing fellow.
Posted inPolitics
Clawing Their Way Back to Relevance
The Florida Democratic Party aims to take advantage of Republican miscues and sweep up the voters who are fed up with them.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Breaking a Lifeline to the Internet
A popular federal program helps people with few resources stay connected—but its funding is running out.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Judges Who Were Consumer or Worker Advocates? Not Many.
Biden has diversified the bench by many metrics, but corporate-side attorneys still fill most federal judgeships.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Assaults on the Right to Vote
The latest challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 concerns who is allowed to sue to enforce it.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Dollar General Overcharges ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of Customers, Lawsuit Alleges
The prices paid at the register do not match the price tags, according to a class action lawsuit working through the courts.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Best of 2023: Ramenda Cyrus
Our John Lewis Writing Fellow offers her favorites from this year.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Getting the Lead Out
The Biden administration sets a goal of removing all lead water pipes throughout the country in the next ten years.
Posted inWorking in America
A Gaming Company’s Workers Unionized. But the Union Busting Didn’t End There.
TCGplayer, a subsidiary of eBay, has stalled negotiations on a first contract, despite the union winning an election in March.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Race Bends Science
The clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia has been applied disproportionately to Black men, an artifact of a changing culture.