Over 150 million US households file their taxes every year. What if tax filers, like those renewing their driver’s license, were given the opportunity to register to vote? An experiment from Vanessa Williamson tested this idea and found promising results: The program doubled the likelihood of unregistered tax filers registering to vote, and new registrants voted in the following election at slightly higher rates than the state average.
A national survey shows an uptick in confidence in the Mueller report, driven almost entirely by a complete reversal in Republican respondents’ opinions of the special counsel and the investigation. However, a significant portion of the public overall believes additional investigation is still needed.
With women making up just 5% of the board of directors at the world's 500 largest mining companies, it's clear that greater representation of women’s voices is needed for advancing sustainable development worldwide. But things are moving in the right direction, as the extractives community just took an important—if incremental—step toward gender inclusivity in the natural resource space.
You don’t really need an executive order for a lot of this stuff, but it makes for a good show. ... If you want it to actually happen, you’ve got to have people in the department who know what they’re doing."
