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“For the People Act” Is for Bureaucrats, not the People – This is the most dangerous election bill I have ever seen. And I say that not only as a lawyer who has enforced federal voting rights law to stop discrimination, but as someone who has served as a local election official in two different states. H.R. 1 will interfere with the ability of states and their citizens to determine the qualifications and eligibility of voters, to ensure the accuracy of voter registration rolls, to secure the fairness and integrity of elections, to participate and speak freely in the political process, and to determine the district boundary lines for electing their representatives. Heritage expert: Hans von Spakovsky

Here’s What the Paycheck Fairness Act Is Really About — It’s Not Equal Pay for Equal Work – The Paycheck Fairness Act creates rigid pay scales and allows the government to determine workers’ value and paychecks. In practice, this system hurts women and minority groups—the very people it promises to help—because it eliminates choice and flexibility for employees, two things that are non-negotiables for most working women. Enacting laws that take away opportunities and choices for all workers is no way to help women. Lawmakers truly interested in helping women should take up policies that promote choice, such as the Working Families Flexibility Act and proposals to let workers choose who represents them in employer-employee negotiations. Moreover, state policymakers should eliminate unnecessary regulations that drive up the cost of child care. Heritage expert: Rachel Greszler

How the Equality Act’s Gender Ideology Would Harm Children – To protect the health and well-being of all American children, Congress should not pass the Equality Act. The Equality Act’s harms to children’s minds, bodies, and family relationships would be severe—and irreversible. The Equality Act would decrease children’s safety and security in private facilities in schools and public accommodations. The Equality Act would destroy opportunities for female athletes and put them at increased risk of injury. The Equality Act would almost certainly promote gender confusion through K–12 curriculum. By politicizing the treatment of gender dysphoria, the Equality Act would also reduce therapeutic choices for parents. Including gender identity as a protected class would impose destructive gender ideology in education and medicine—and undermine parental rights. Heritage expert: Emilie Kao

Princeton Drops Standards in Name of ‘Equity.’ Here’s Why That’s Pernicious. – Notice how modern academic shifts are moving away from both memorization and cultivating independent thought. Instead, these changes are increasingly aimed at reinforcing the dogma and ideology of left-wing identity politics or in concealing low standards with condescending justifications. What we are left with is a “meritocracy” without merit, little more than a class-based system where an “elite” maintains its status by its familiarity with arcane but shallow terminology that cloaks an overall decline in legitimate claims to that status. It seems most likely that the decision to drop Latin and Greek from Princeton’s requirements is being done to signal both that Western civilization is inherently unworthy of study and —perhaps just as perniciously—that we expect much lower standards for even the highest performing modern-day students, particularly racial minorities. Heritage expert: Jarrett Stepman