| February Wed, 2024
Power & Politics: Federal scrutiny into Trenton police practices; Rep. Gottheimer on Israel-Hamas war
And two and half weeks until Election Day. All 120 seats in the statehouse are up. A look at the issues that could move the needle among voters with Ashley Koning, director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers.
| February Wed, 2024
Virginia sees more women of color on ballots on this year
According to the Center for American Women and Politics, there are currently 2,412 women state legislators, of whom 715 identify as people of color.
| February Wed, 2024
Men give more money in Oregon politics
The underrepresentation of women in political contributions is intertwined with the disproportionately low number of women candidates nationally, Kira Sanbonmatsu, a Rutgers political science professor and the report's lead researcher tells Axios.
| February Wed, 2024
Just one third of state political donors are women
Women donors made up just 29% to 33% of the contributions to general election candidates at statewide and state legislative levels between 2019 and 2022. That's according to a new report on the "Donor Gap" from Rutgers' Center for American Women and Politics using data from OpenSecrets.