Voter registration at tax time, the post-’90s generation in China, and demographic change in nonmetropolitan U.S.
| Rural America’s diversity and demographic change “Rural areas account for over 70% of our nation’s land. Rather than trying to pigeonhole them into an antiquated framework, our policies must value the diversity that is both their present and future.” DW Rowlands and Hanna Love present three demographic trends from the 2020 Census that upend outdated assumptions about nonmetropolitan America. Read more |
| Voter registration at tax time More than 150 million households file their annual income taxes and 99.5% of the U.S. population appears on at least one federal tax document every year. Registering people to vote when they do their taxes could play a crucial part in the protection and expansion of ballot access in America, argue Vanessa Williamson and Jackson Gode. Read more |
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