Posted by Keiva Hummel | February 11th, 2021
With Presidents’ Day this coming Monday, we have some great reading for our network to dig into over this holiday weekend! The National Civic League, an NCDD member organization, released the 2020 Winter Edition of the National Civic Review (NCR) and NCDD members receive a digital copy of NCR for
free! (Find the access code below.). This esteemed quarterly journal offers insights and examples of civic engagement and deliberative governance from around the country.
Friendly reminder that the League is always seeking articles for NCR on community-based examples of civic engagement, public deliberation, co-production, and democratic innovation – more info here! Submissions for the Spring 2021 edition of NCR are due March 15th, and Summer edition submissions are due by July 15th. You can read about NCR in the post below and find it on NCL’s site here.
16-year-olds pay 246% more for car insurance than 55-year-olds in California, on average.
Drivers with a DUI pay 144% more for car insurance than drivers with a clean record in California, on average.
61 million Americans have reduced their car insurance coverage due to COVID-19.
105 million Americans say they’re not getting their money’s worth from their car insurance.
55 million Americans have second thoughts about owning a car due to COVID-19.
WalletHub Q&A
How has COVID-19 affected people’s car insurance choices?
“COVID-19 has had a significant impact on people’s car insurance choices, considering that 61 million Americans have already reduced their car insurance coverage because of the pandemic, according to WalletHub’s new car insurance survey,” said Jill Gonzalez, WalletHub analyst. “This trend of reducing car insurance coverage seems likely to continue through 2021, given current sentiment. Roughly 105 million say they’re not getting their money’s w