Here are the ten states with the highest levels of gun violence:
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Under the Gun
Weak Gun Laws & High Levels of Gun Violence Go Together
Today, our colleagues at the Center for American Progress put out an important new study examining the relationship between a state’s gun laws and its rate of gun violence. Unsurprisingly, the states with the weakest gun laws tend to also be the states with the highest rates of gun violence.
Here are the ten states with the highest levels of gun violence:
As both common sense and hard data indicate, 8 of these 10 states are among the 25 states with the weakest gun laws. Indeed, the 10 states with the weakest gun laws have more than double the rate of gun violence of the 10 states with the strongest gun laws.
On the flipside, states with strong guns have low levels of gun violence. The five states with the lowest levels of gun violence — New York, New Jersey, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Connecticut — are all among the ten states with the strongest gun laws.
Here’s a chart showing how all the states rank in term of gun violence:
To find out exactly where your state’s gun laws rank and where it ranks in terms of gun violence, please click HERE.
BOTTOM LINE: Gun violence prevention laws matter and they work. It’s time for Congress to act on strong gun violence prevention laws — especially universal background checks — so all Americans can be protected, no matter which state they live in.
Evening Brief: Important Stories That You Might’ve Missed
North Carolina Republicans propose ignoring the Constitution and establishing an official state religion.
Mike Huckabee: President Obama planning a gun grab in order to establish Nazi-style dictatorship.
Head of gun organization says it’s “time to hunt Democrats.”
Another Tennessee bill goes after Muslims.
GRAPHIC: Adam Lanza’s terrifying home arsenal.
Yes, background checks will reduce crime.
GOP frets over South Carolina special election.
Sportsmen’s group comes out for universal background checks.
The GOP’s “shameful” plan to filibuster gun violence prevention laws.
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A Trillion Dollar Boost
How a Path to Citizenship Will Boost the Economy
Reforming our broken immigration system and offering the 11 million undocumented immigrants already here a path to earned citizenship is morally right thing to do, but it’s also the economically smart thing. A new report out today from our colleagues at the Center for American Progress outlines how immigration reform will offer a tremendous boost to the economy — especially if reform includes the vital pathway to citizenship.
Here are some of the key numbers to know:
- Cumulative increase in GDP of $1.1 TRILLION.
- Cumulative increase in the income of all Americans of $618 BILLION.
- Increase in federal taxes paid by undocumented immigrants of $91 BILLION.
- Increase in state and local taxes paid by undocumented immigrants of $53 BILLION.
- Earnings of undocumented immigrants would increase by 25.1 percent, a cumulative increase in earnings of $515 BILLION.
- Average annual increase in jobs of 159,000.
(All figures are the gains over ten years based on undocumented immigrants acquiring legal status in 2013 and citizenship 5 years later.)
As this handy chart shows, the sooner undocumented immigrants become citizens, the bigger the boost to the economy:
It’s hard to appreciate what some of these figures mean in real life, so here are some examples of the economic benefits of immigration reform:
- Education: The GOP budget cuts education funding per capita by 47 percent; taxes from new citizens would fund 1.5 MILLION special education teachers.
- Infrastructure: While the GOP budget slashes spending on roads, bridges, schools, airports, and other infrastructure, taxes from new citizens could rebuild the San Francisco Bay Bridge 23 times over.
- College Affordability: The $91 BILLION in additional federal tax revenue paid by new citizens would fund more than 16 MILLION additional Pell grants over the next ten years.
- Teachers: The $53 BILLION in additional state revenue paid by new citizens would fund more than 1 MILLION new K-12 teachers over the next years.
For more information on how immigration reform will boost the economy, check out the full report HERE.
BOTTOM LINE: Undocumented immigrants are makers not takers and putting them on a path to earned citizenship will help these new citizens and their communities and boost the economy by over $1 TRILLION.
Evening Brief: Important Stories That You Might’ve Missed
The GOP still won’t own up to its real problems.
Local TV news shows the painful consequences of the sequester cuts.
Another football player accused of rape, another community blames the victim.
Why Sen. Reid must include universal background checks in the Senate gun violence prevention bill.
Colorado governor signed gun law reforms today, will sign civil unions tomorrow.
Senators parrot NRA talking points to oppose gun violence prevention laws.
Not everyone is terrible: Steubenville-area women’s shelter receiving donations from around the world.
Iraq War architect says it’s “unreasonable” to question whether the war was worth fighting.
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