Founded in 2001, the Progressive Maryland Education Fund (PMEF) is an educational nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that improves the lives of working families in our state through non-partisan leadership training, non-partisan voter registration of historically disenfranchised minorities, public policy research, public education, and advocacy. As working families in Maryland are disproportionately of-color, our work often focuses on the needs of minority communities. PMEF's research on living standards, public education, campaign finance and tax policy has been covered by most of the major media outlets in the state.
Progressive Maryland Education Fund Reports:
ELECTION REFORM: Public Campaign Funding
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Reports and Resources by Various Policy and Advocacy Groups:
- The Progressive Agenda for the States 2007: Values & Vision for America
The Center for Policy Alternatives, December 2006
This Seventh Annual Edition features 50 of the most innovative policy solutions being debated and enacted by states. Issues include: Identity Theft, Global Warming, Fair Share Health Care, Sudan Divestment, and Predatory Lending.
- Take Back America 2007: Reports and Videos from the June 18-20 conference
Inspiring and informative documentation of plenaries and key panels at this popular national annual event for progressive activists. Included are videos of congressional and organizational leaders and top 2008 presidential candidates.
- Inequality.org website launched by Demos and the Project on Inequality and the Common Good, Institute for Policy Studies. For advocates, policymakers, journalists, academics and citizens on the magnitude, causes and far-reaching consequences of the growing economic divide.
- The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America is a Myth
Campaign for America's Future, June 2007
- War and Occupation in Iraq, Global Policy Forum, June 2007
While most studies focus on the sectarian bloodshed, this 117-page report highlights the enormous violence of the occupation forces. The increasing air war results in heavy casualties as well as the daily killing of civilians at checkpoints, during house searches, by snipers, and by ground bombardment. Nearly a million Iraqis have died due to the effects of the occupation and 4 million have fled from their homes. A dozen cities have been destroyed by U.S. attacks. It includes a map of the major prisons and U.S. bases. The five biggest bases are gigantic and built for decades of use. Their airfields can launch air strikes around the clock. The new U.S. embassy complex is the biggest U.S. diplomatic facility in the world.
- Discounting Rights: Wal-Mart's Violation of US Workers’ Right to Freedom of Association, Human Rights Watch, May 2007. Details Wal-Mart's anti-union efforts, with stories from employees like Terry Daly, whose job was to prevent shoplifting, but was told to turn security cameras on workers trying to form a union.
- Teaching Economics As If People Mattered, United for a Fair Economy, 2007.
Includes topics such as "War & the Economy" plus other workshops and reports.
- NCLB/ESEA Action Guide, National Education Association, spring 2007
Online tools and resources to promote NEA's campaign to reform "No Child Left Behind." The site is full of fact sheets, including the impact of President Bush's 2008 education funding budget proposal, by state and congressional district.
- Maine Senate President on Public Financing, Short video of Maine Senator Beth Edmonds describes the virtues of voluntary, public funding of campaigns, which has worked great in Maine and Arizona for four election cycles.
- Paid Sick Days Would Help Both Employees and Employers, Center for American Progress, December 2006. Details how worsening job growth, wages and benefits hurt families.
- Naughty & Nice 2006, Center for American Progress, December 2006
- What Everyday Americans Really Think (and Elites Don't Get) About the Economy, Economic Policy Institute, December 2006
- The Wealth Primary: The Role of Big Money in the 2006 Congressional Primaries, US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), November 2006
- Cities on the Right Track: Building Public Addiction Treatment Systems, June 2006. Videos, audio clips, and presentations from the conference sponsored by Open Society Institute-Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the City of Baltimore.
- 99% of Marylanders Are Net Losers Under Bush Tax and Spending Policies, Citizens for Tax Justice documents in its new study how 99% of Marylanders lose from President Bush's fiscal policies.
2007 Progressive Maryland Education Fund Legislative Scorecard
PMEF's 2007 Legislative Scorecard: Find out how your lawmakers voted on key issues
Master Scorecard
Scores By Last Name - html table
Scores By District - html table
Printable Scorecards for All 47 Districts - pdf format
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2006 Progressive Maryland Education Fund
