Editorials
On September 30th, my Black Belt constituents were dealt yet another devastating blow when it was announced by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency that it would close 31 driver's license offices.
I joined President Obama when he came to Birmingham in late March to push for stricter requirements for payday lenders. That same day, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unveiled its proposals to protect consumers from predatory lending practices.
Access to quality and affordable healthcare should be a right and not a privilege.
As the Representative of Alabama's 7th District where so many fought, bled, and died in the struggle for racial equality, I take very seriously my role as a protector of the legacy. And as a daughter of Selma and a lifetime member of the historic Brown Chapel AME Church, such a role is very personal to me.
In September, we got insight into the depravity of domestic violence as we watched the video of Ray Rice knocking his fiancé unconscious and dragging her motionless body out of that elevator. We cringed at the police report detailing the phone call made by U.S. District Judge Fuller’s wife in which she cried, “He’s beating on me.
When we talk about the gender pay gap, most of us are already familiar with the fact that women make just 77 cents for every dollar that a man makes. While this remains true, not all women are even that fortunate. For African-American women the wage gap is even larger.
By Terri Sewell
Since being elected to Congress in 2010, I have placed getting Americans back to work at the top of my priority list. While our national economy is slowly recovering, we still have far to go. This is why my office has implemented a results-driven approach to addressing the unemployment crisis in our country.
Student loans are the most recent casualty of the political gridlock in Washington. This week, Congress was unable to pass bipartisan legislation to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling for millions of students and middle class families before the July 1 deadline. Due to this failure to act, interest rates on student loans will rise to 6.8 percent from 3.4 percent Monday.
After almost 50 years of expanding and protecting voting rights, a new threat comes from an unlikely place – the U.S. Supreme Court.