The restrictive categories that disproportionately benefit urban districts include aid for summer school, bilingual education, homeless students, incarcerated youth and magnet schools.
Since the Supreme Court gutted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, Republicans have used every trick in the book to pass restrictive voting measures that disproportionately impact communities of color, women, and young people". .
Republicans across the country have pushed restrictive voter ID laws, which disproportionately make it more difficult for people of color and low-income Americans to vote.
The Republicans did all they could to suppress turnout- including restrictive "voter ID" laws that disproportionately affect African Americans, young people and other Democratic voters.
"Regardless of the intent, it is incontrovertible that Florida's highly restrictive civil rights restoration policies disproportionately impact minorities, more specifically those identified as black, when one reviews Florida Department of Corrections statistics," Schlakman told me.
During his last year as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, Tillis, indeed, helped to pass restrictive voter laws that many believe disproportionately affect young, black, and Latino constituents (among the proposed cuts was a program that helps to register high-school students).
"There's three main performance differentiators if you like, the driver, the chassis and the engine, and with the current regulations, the engine is disproportionately important, whilst the chassis regulations have become very, very restrictive," he says.
Where restrictive laws are in place, the homeless are disproportionately singled out for enforcement, advocates state.
Particularly in the days after Shelby County, however, jurisdictions have enacted restrictive, discriminatory, and clearly unnecessary voter ID laws that disproportionately prevent some populations from casting their ballots.
The report adds that economic benefits will flow disproportionately to the states that give drone makers tax breaks and avoid restrictive local rules on drone use.
