The Equality State Policy Center is a non-profit broad-based coalition of more than 30 social justice, conservation, and labor organizations in Wyoming.
The Equality State Policy Center is a non-profit broad-based coalition of more than 30 social justice, conservation, and labor organizations in Wyoming.
August 1, 2021 Our latest Fair Elections focus? Redistricting. Every ten years, the Wyoming Legislature is tasked with redistricting the legislative boundaries of each House and Senate District in the state. This process has started and final decisions will be made in the 2022 legislative session. New to redistricting? The Brennan Center has a great overview of Wyoming’s redistricting rules. Want …
July 30, 2021 ESPC continues to track how American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds will be deployed and how you can get involved in the process. Here’s the latest: Governor Gordon assembled a Strike Team to develop Wyoming’s Proposal to Survive, Drive & Thrive. Read that report or listen to members of the Strike Team discuss their findings here. Learn more …
July 8, 2021 Laramie, Wyo. — As part of its monthly People’s Review: LIVE! series, the Equality State Policy Center will host an online discussion with four prominent members of the team charged with developing the strategy to deploy federal COVID-relief funds and other resources and spur Wyoming’s post-pandemic recovery. Panelists, all part of Governor Gordon’s handpicked “Strike Team,” will …
from the Casper Star Tribune, July 6, 2021 We talk a lot about jobs and family in Wyoming. They are the cornerstone of our lives together, the foundation of our values, and the backbone of our state. What we don’t talk enough about is who’s holding up these essential mainstays: Wyoming women. It is time we start that conversation. A …
June 16, 2021 ESPC is proud to announce the release of Wyoming Women as Economic Drivers! This new, nonpartisan report is the result of an ongoing partnership between ESPC, the Wyoming Women’s Foundation and the Wyoming Council for Women and highlights the crucial role of women in the Equality State’s economy. The report also offers key policy recommendations for ensuring women’s robust participation in Wyoming’s …
May 6, 2021 The Management Council of the Wyoming Legislature meets at 2 p.m. tomorrow, Friday, May 7, to discuss proposed changes to their remote participation policies. They’ll be discussing the rules for the interim session—including a proposal that would have committee chairs decide whether to allow remote testimony from the public. Lawmakers have done a commendable job of ensuring …
April 9, 2021 Powerful grassroots momentum helped garner broad, historic support for a number of important bills at this year’s legislative session, including a bill to expand Medicaid eligibility and one to repeal the death penalty in the state. Next week, policy experts and advocates from the ACLU of Wyoming, the Wyoming Outdoor Council, the Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence and …
When all of us here at ESPC paused recently to take stock of what your support accomplished for the people of Wyoming in 2020—a year filled with challenges—we were truly blown away. I hope you’ll read our inaugural impact report and feel as proud as we are of what you helped us achieve for Wyoming! I also hope you’ll stay …
February 25, 2021
The Legislative Services Office supplied the following update about the “hybrid” session that starts on Monday, March 1st. Read on for details!
February 19, 2021 As Wyoming lawmakers prepared to take up House Bill 75, legislation that would make it harder for voters to cast their ballots in the name of “preventing fraud,” ESPC convened a top-notch panel of voting rights and elections experts via Zoom for some real talk around election integrity. First, let’s dispense with the “fraud” myth. As Linda …