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Fighting to Understand

The Fulcrum
By The FulcrumJan 13, 2020
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Let's see. ... The Constitution still works. Capitalism still works. Americans even agree on many basic human values. Yet something is amiss. It is as if we have forgotten how to be We The People. We will explain.

The organizations who are members of Citizenconnect.us were founded by people from all walks of life, political parties, races, identities, and religions. What they have in common is a conviction that America is stronger if we, the people, work together. It isn’t about agreeing on everything; it’s about finding what we can agree on and making it happen. This means that all the organizations on this site also share a set of core principles:

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We treat one another with dignity and respect.

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Citizen Connect has over 500 organizations focused on everything from election reform to civic education to restoring civil dialogue. They’re run by people who span the political spectrum – Republicans, Democrats and Independents. Check out our featured organizations below – or use our search tools to find your perfect match. Explore, learn more, then get connected!

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States are quietly cutting child care funding — and families are out of options

Several states face devastating cuts to child care funding that are raising day care costs while often lowering caregiver pay.

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States are quietly cutting child care funding — and families are out of options

For the past year, families in need of child care assistance in Indiana have been sitting on a waitlist that has ballooned from 3,000 to 30,000 kids. It’s still climbing — and no one is coming off of it.

Emily Pike, the executive director of New Hope For Families in Bloomington, which cares for children experiencing homelessness, can’t remember a time when no families were coming off the waitlist. Before this year, she said, low-income families could expect to be on the list just a few weeks before they found placement at a center that took child care vouchers, which for most brought their costs down to zero.

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Fulcrum Roundtable: Militarizing U.S. Cities
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Fulcrum Roundtable: Militarizing U.S. Cities

Welcome to the Fulcrum Roundtable.

The program offers insights and discussions about some of the most talked-about topics from the previous month, featuring Fulcrum’s collaborators.

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Have Males Always been the Problem?

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Have Males Always been the Problem?

Have you ever wondered why there have been so many bad happenings in human history? Why are there so many bad actors? Sadly, I came to realize that it was largely caused by the male sex. That's not to say that women can't act badly, but the statistics are clearly weighted toward males as the cause of most of the bad events throughout all of history.

United States FBI statistics of 2012 document that 73.5% of criminal behavior is male-caused versus 26.2% by women of the 10 million criminal acts across all categories. Noted psychologist Steven Pinker argues in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011) that historically high levels of male violence can be explained by psychological mechanisms that he calls "inner demons," such as predation, dominance, and revenge. Males commit more crimes than females, particularly violent ones, a trend supported by arrest and victimization data globally. This disparity is attributed to a combination of factors, including socialization into roles that may emphasize aggression, evolutionary differences, and potential biological factors. As of February 2017, 93.3 percent of federal inmates were men, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

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California’s clean energy shift: how ending coal power impacts Latino communities

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California’s clean energy shift: how ending coal power impacts Latino communities

California has taken another step away from fossil fuels. For the first time in decades, the state will no longer buy electricity produced from coal, ending a long-standing reliance on out-of-state power plants such as the Intermountain facility in Utah. The move is both symbolic and practical. It confirms that California’s grid, one of the largest in the world, has officially cut ties with the dirtiest source of energy still used in the United States.

The Intermountain Power Plant once sent electricity hundreds of miles through transmission lines that connected Utah’s coal fields with Los Angeles. That arrangement allowed California to meet part of its growing energy demand without technically burning coal at home. Now that contract has expired, and the plant itself is being converted to operate on natural gas and hydrogen. California officials say the end of coal imports is a turning point in the state’s decades-long effort to cut emissions and accelerate renewable energy.

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