Increasingly, corporations and right-wing state legislators are successfully driving preemption bills that make it harder for women and women of color in particular to work with their local governments to build communities that work for them and their families.
Read MoreAcross the United States, local governments have developed and implemented innovative solutions to improve their communities, and in some cases, that has led to wider adoption of those policies by other communities or even the state.
Read MoreLocalities can look at this New Orleans City Council resolution as a model for empowering local governments to set their own minimum wages and worker protection policies.
Read MoreThis slideshow summarizes a 2019 survey of Missouri voters on preemption-related issues.
Read MoreThis slideshow summarizes a 2019 survey of Minnesota voters on preemption-related issues.
Read MoreThis slideshow summarizes a 2019 survey of Florida voters on preemption-related issues.
Read MoreThis slideshow summarizes a 2019 survey of Texas voters on preemption-related issues.
Read MoreIn this brief, we synthesize the evidence on the effectiveness of local rent control laws and suggest areas in which further research could help policymakers, advocates, and the public improve state and local laws regarding rent control.
Read MoreIn this brief, we synthesize the evidence on the effectiveness of local inclusionary zoning laws and suggest areas in which further research could help policymakers, advocates, and the public improve state and local laws regarding inclusionary zoning.
Read MoreIn this brief, we synthesize the evidence on the effectiveness of paid-sick-days laws and suggest areas in which further research could help policymakers, advocates, and the public improve local paid-sick-days laws.
Read MoreLocal minimum-wage laws can help ensure that workers can afford housing, food, and other basic necessities in locations where the cost of living is higher than in other parts of the country or state.
Read MoreThis pathbreaking reader presents and analyzes in concise form the most important preemption statutes and cases, along with commentary from the leading scholars in the field.
Read MoreThis is the summary of the findings from research based on 17 In-depth (live telephone) interviews conducted in total, including with members of Republican state legislatures.
Read MoreThere is now an active anti-sanctuary movement aimed at eliminating the discretion that local communities have traditionally exercised over their involvement in the federal immigration enforcement efforts.
Read MoreThis September 2020 amicus brief in the case ‘City of San Antonio & Marilyn Washington v. Associated Builders & Contractors of South Texas’ deals with preemption of San Antonio’s paid sick leave policy.
Read MoreThis October 2018 amicus brief (by the Campaign to Defend Local Solutions) in the case ‘Cleveland v. Ohio’ deals with preemption of Clevaland’s local hire law.
Read MoreIt is essential that state legislatures accurately represent the statewide public’s views when legislating with respect to local power. In too many states, highly gerrymandered state legislatures do not accurately represent the public’s views.
Read MoreAll preemption laws are in tension with local democracy, but punitive preemption is especially threatening. Many state preemption laws are vague around the edges; some may violate the state’s constitution or legal doctrines.
Read MoreThis Article describes this politics by way of assessing the nature of—and reasons for—the hostility to city lawmaking. It also provides a current accounting of state preemptive legislation and assesses the cities’ potential legal and political defenses.
Read MoreThis Essay examines the spread of the new preemption and explores the legal doctrines available to local governments for challenging it.
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