Follow the latest news coverage and media releases from the Fairness Project as we work to win and protect ballot measures across the country.
In a blow to for-profit lenders and predatory debt collectors, voters in Arizona overwhelmingly passed a ballot measure that will substantially rein in debt collection practices and protect working families burdened with medical debt.
“South Dakotans know their families and neighbors deserve health care without going into debt or avoiding check-ups, procedures, and medication they need,” Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, which worked with the ballot initiative’s supporters in South Dakota and has helped other states win Medicaid expansion.
In a win for patients, providers, farmers, small businesses, and thousands of working families, South Dakotans voted today to expand Medicaid, becoming the 40th state to do so since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2009.
“We’re looking forward to passing more ballot measures to protect abortion rights wherever we can,” Fairness Project Executive Director Kelly Hall said in a statement Tuesday evening.
In addition to defeating Issue 2, the Fairness Project led the charge to defeat a similar measure in South Dakota earlier this year that also would have required a supermajority for ballot measures.
“Despite swaths of disinformation, opposition spending, and outright lies from anti-choice extremists, our coalition succeeded to restore the protections of Roe for millions and guarantee reproductive rights for generations to come."
This success of the Raise the Wage Nebraska campaign, an effort supported by the Fairness Project, means that about 150,000 workers will see a raise starting next year — more than a fifth of the state’s workforce.
A Fairness Project-supported campaign, Vermont for Reproductive Liberty, was behind the effort to pass Prop 5. When race was called shortly before 10 p.m. ET, “Yes” votes were leading 76% to 24%.
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