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The ID Divide: How Barriers to ID Impact Different Communities and Affect Everyone...............
The ID Divide: How Barriers to ID Impact Different Communities and Affect Everyone
https://www.mapresearch.org/id-documents-report
Movement Advancement Project
Identity documents (IDs) like driver’s licenses are keys that unlock virtually every aspect of daily life, but there are many barriers to obtaining ID, affecting everyone but impacting different communities in different ways. A complicated patchwork of policies, combined with unnecessarily high fees and ongoing discrimination, means that millions of people are unable to access some of the most basic needs and services or to participate in everyday life, simply because they don’t have a valid ID. Click on the links and see below for additional details................................
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Overlapping barriers to getting and updating ID include:
Complicated and circular documentation requirements
Needlessly expensive fees
Limited availability of ID services
Confusing patchwork of state policies
Discrimination
