Amerikas Verfassung

Folge 5: Gewerkschaftsgründung bei Amazon und die Wahlrechtsreformen der US-Bundesstaaten

(aufgenommen am 31. März 2021)

Housekeeping

• Online-Conversation: TV Thursday - Serial Politics

Newsstories

Child Tax Credit 

• A Safety Net for American Children (Podcast, The Daily, New York Times)
•  To Juice the Economy, Biden Bets on the Poor (The New York Times)
•  New child tax credit could slash poverty now and boost social mobility later (Brookings Institute)
•  The Biden Child Allowance: Examining the Impact of Welfare on Work (The Heritage Foundation)
•  The Child Tax Credit: Temporary Expansion for 2021 Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA; P.L. 117-2) (Congressional Research Service)
• Coverbild: Congressional Research Service

Millionenklage gegen die Ex-Trump Anwältin Sidney Powell

• Fact-Checking Falsehoods on Mail-In Voting (The New York Times)
• Trump’s Repeated False Attacks on Mail-In Ballots (FactCheck.org)
• Sharp Divisions on Vote Counts, as Biden Gets High Marks for His Post-Election Conduct, 3. The voting experience in 2020 (PewResearchCenter)
• Lou Dobbs, and the most problematic claims Trump allies made about voting machines (The Washington Post)
• Sidney Powell’s Tucker Carlson-esque defense: ‘Reasonable people’ wouldn’t take her wild voter-fraud claims as fact (The Washington Post)
• Dominion Voting sues Trump lawyer Powell for defamation, seeking $1.3 billion in damages (CNN)
• After Lawsuit Against Fox News, Here’s Who Dominion Has Sued So Far—And Who Could Be Next (Forbes)
• Sidney Powell: Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss

Deep Dives
Gewerkschaften und Amazon

• Ihr Kampf könnte Geschichte schreiben (ZEIT Online)
• Today Explained: Alabama shakes up Amazon (Vox Podcast)
• On the Overnight Shift with the Amazon Union Organizers (The New Yorker)
• ‘Taking on a behemoth like Amazon is going to take an army.’ Labor unions, inspired by Alabama drive, are joining the fight nationwide. (Chicago Tribune)
• Don't be fooled: Joe Biden is no friend of unions (The Guardian)
• Inside Joe Biden’s decision to dive into the Amazon union drive (Politico)
• Biden Needs Unions to Force His Hand (The Atlantic)
• Martin Thunert, Hyper-Pluralismus? Die Welt der Interessengruppen, Gewerkschaften, Lobbyisten und Think Tanks, in: Handbuch Politik USA, Springer VS, 2016. 
• Sanierung des bröckelnden Tarifsystems? Gewerkschaften und Arbeitsbeziehungen in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung)
• Union Members 2020 (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• Most Americans view unions favorably, though few workers belong to one (Pew Research Institute)
• Video von Joe Biden (Twitter)
•  House Democrats Pass Bill That Would Protect Worker Organizing Efforts (NPR)
•  Fired, interrogated, disciplined: Amazon warehouse organizers allege year of retaliation (NBC News)
•  Coverbild: Unsplash

Wahlrechtsreformen der US-Bundesstaaten (Georgia)

•  Who runs elections in the United States? (Ballotpedia)
•  Philipp Adorf: Hindernisse auf dem Weg zur Wahl (BpB)

• Article I, Section. 4. U.S Constitution (National Archives)
• The Constitution: Amendments 11-27 (National Archives)
• Congress and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (National Archives)
• Shelby County v. Holder (Supreme Court of the United States)
• Supreme Court Invalidates Key Part of Voting Rights Act (The New York Times)
• America Votes by 50 Sets of Rules. We Need a Federal Elections Agency (The New York Times)
• Scot Schraufnagel, Michael J. Pomante II, and Quan Li: Cost of Voting in the American States: 2020 (Election Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4)
• Voting and Elections (State of Oregon)
• Elections (Georgia Secretary of State)
• Analyzing the Relationship Between Cost of Voting and Partisan Lean (Montgomery Blair High School)
• What Does Georgia's New Voting Law SB 202 Do? (Georgia Public Broadcasting)
• For the People Act of 2021 (Congress.gov)
• House Democrats’ massive voting rights bill, explained (Vox)
• Georgia’s shameful new voting laws are a product of GOP desperation (The Washington Post)
• Georgia’s restrictive new voting law, explained (Vox)
• ‘Jim Eagle’ and Georgia’s Voting Law (The Wall Street Journal)
• Joe Biden Botches the Georgia Voting Law (National Review)

Transatlantic Treats 

Which Side Are You On?

• Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reece)
• Which Side Are You On? (Natalie Merchant)
• Which Side Are You On? (Dropkick Murphys)
• Coverbild: Unsplash