Second Chances
What to know: April is Second Chance Month, which highlights ways to help former prison inmates returning from incarceration.
The TPPF take: Mississippi’s elected leaders have made notable strides over the past few years to create a safer and stronger state by enacting reforms, such as expanding parole eligibility in 2021.
“Between 2009 and 2019, 37 states experienced reductions in both crime and imprisonment, with crime falling faster in states that reduced imprisonment than in states that increased imprisonment,” says TPPF’s Scott Peyton. “In fact, allowing more people to earn their way home makes them more likely to follow prison rules, provides strong incentives to participate in rehabilitative programs that prepare them for the workforce and help reduce recidivism.”
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DEI Doesn’t Work
What to know: Spiked—an enthusiastically liberal website—says the end of “diversity, equity and inclusion” efforts could be near. A new study shows zero evidence that “measures of executive racial/ethnic diversity” lead to any measure of company success.
The TPPF take: DEI is a failure, and Americans are rejecting it.
“Viewing the world through the DEI ideology requires pronouncing virtually everything that humans have accomplished since time began as the result of white supremacy, racism or colonialism,” says TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester. “It rejects the principles of individual freedom and autonomy, science, research, advancement, inquiry and discovery. Their worldview is a dark place where everything humans value is proclaimed to be bad and everything human decency condemns as bad is said to be good.”
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Pretty Rank
What to know: The city of Dallas is considering ranked-choice voting for city elections.
The TPPF take: The state of Texas bans ranked-choice voting—for good reason.
“Essentially, candidates are rewarded for being second-best, as the voting power for voters who have one strongly favored candidate is diluted while voters with multiple preferences have their voices heard in each round of RCV,” says TPPF’s John Bonura. “This occurred recently during Alaska’s 2022 at-largest congressional race, when Democrat Molly Peltola won despite the two Republican candidates, Sarah Palin and Nick Begich III, receiving 59.6% of first-choice votes.”
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