Health Care

How Medicaid Cuts Could Threaten Public School Students and Teachers in Every State
How Medicaid Cuts Could Threaten Public School Students and Teachers in Every State
If federal lawmakers’ attacks on Medicaid succeed, states could be forced to fill the resulting budget holes with cuts to public education, leading to lower salaries for teachers or higher tuition for college students.
By Heidi Schultheis, Eliza Schultz, and Rachel West
Health Care

Economy

The Importance of NEPA Review for Infrastructure Projects
The Importance of NEPA Review for Infrastructure Projects
NEPA provides the public with information about the potential impacts of infrastructure projects and helps coordinate federal agency review and enforcement of numerous environmental, civil rights, and historic preservation statutes.
By Kevin DeGood
Economy
Purchasing Public Benefits Through Public-Private Partnerships
Purchasing Public Benefits Through Public-Private Partnerships
The high-speed rail line proposed to run between Dallas and Houston demonstrates the potential value of investing public dollars in privately financed, for-profit transportation projects to purchase certain public benefits.
By Kevin DeGood
Economy
Workers’ Wages Remain Stagnant Despite Gains to Top Earners
Workers’ Wages Remain Stagnant Despite Gains to Top Earners
A closer look at wage levels shows the economic reality facing many workers.
By Daniella Zessoules and Michael Madowitz
Economy

International issues

What Turkey’s Political Changes Mean for U.S.-Turkish Relations
What Turkey’s Political Changes Mean for U.S.-Turkish Relations
The United States should take a harder line with Turkey and begin to prepare for the potential implications of Erdoğan’s aggressive nationalism.
By Max Hoffman, Alan Makovsky, and Michael Werz
Foreign Policy and Security

Events

2018 Smart on Crime Innovations Conference
The 2018 Smart on Crime Innovations Conference will emphasize the need to maintain a commitment to criminal justice reform and tackle the unexplored and difficult questions that must be faced in order to move forward toward a smarter, fairer, and more just system.
524 West 59th Street, NY, New York 10019, USA
Center for American Progress

Past Events

Supreme Court

Brett Kavanaugh Threatens Americans’ Fundamental Right to Vote
Brett Kavanaugh Threatens Americans’ Fundamental Right to Vote
Senators should demand a U.S. Supreme Court Justice who will protect the right to vote for all Americans.
By Connor Maxwell
Race and Ethnicity

Women

The Trump-Pence Administration Uses Alternative Facts to Drive Major Policy Decisions Around Women’s Health
The Trump-Pence Administration Uses Alternative Facts to Drive Major Policy Decisions Around Women’s Health
The Trump-Pence administration has launched a wholesale attack on women’s health programs and is using fake evidence to back up their actions.
By Osub Ahmed and Jamila Taylor
Women
Gender Matters
Gender Matters
Strategies to combat sexual harassment must include expanding opportunities for women to decrease occupational segregation and remove barriers to high level jobs and senior leadership.
By the Women's Initiative
Women
Valuing Black Women’s Work
Valuing Black Women’s Work
Persistent pay disparities demand intentional, concrete policy solutions to combat bias and systemic barriers in order to expand opportunities for black women.
By Jocelyn Frye
Women

Education

A Well-Rounded Education
A Well-Rounded Education
America’s high school students need a rich and varied curriculum in order to be successful in high school, college, and beyond.
By Laura Jimenez and Scott Sargrad
Education, K-12

Progressive Pulse

Generation Progress
TalkPoverty
ThinkProgress (CAP Action)

Environment

Abuse of Power: Debunking the Trump Administration’s National Security Argument for Coal
Abuse of Power: Debunking the Trump Administration’s National Security Argument for Coal
The Trump administration seeks to reward political favorites at coal companies by falsely claiming a national security threat to the electric grid, opening the door to more egregious abuses of power.
By Luke Bassett and Ned Price
Energy and Environment

Immigration

Amid Legal and Political Uncertainty, DACA Remains More Important Than Ever
Amid Legal and Political Uncertainty, DACA Remains More Important Than Ever
A survey of DACA beneficiaries finds the program has had an outsize effect on participants, their families, and the U.S. economy as a whole—even as recipients face uncertainty about the future.
By Tom K. Wong, Sanaa Abrar, Tom Jawetz, Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec, Patrick O'Shea, Greisa Martinez Rosas, and Philip E. Wolgin
Immigration
Women and LGBTQ Deportees Face Compounded Dangers Upon Return
Women and LGBTQ Deportees Face Compounded Dangers Upon Return
Forcing women and LGBTQ immigrants to return to Mexico and Central America could put them in grave danger.
By Binh X. Ngo
Immigration
Trump’s Public-Charge Rule Would Threaten Disabled Immigrants’ Health and Safety
Trump’s Public-Charge Rule Would Threaten Disabled Immigrants’ Health and Safety
This column identifies the consequences of Trump’s redefined public-charge test for disabled immigrants’ health and safety.
By Rebecca Cokley and Hannah Leibson
Disability

LGBT

Protecting Basic Living Standards for LGBTQ People
Protecting Basic Living Standards for LGBTQ People
New data show that nutrition and housing assistance, Medicaid, and unemployment benefits are critical to LGBTQ people’s economic security.
By Caitlin Rooney, Charlie Whittington, and Laura E. Durso
LGBT