CAP’s Jobs Blueprint addresses the wage stagnation and employment challenges facing working class Americans and communities left behind by investing in millions of new jobs nationwide to meet some of our nation’s most pressing economic and social needs and creating a job guarantee in the hardest-hit areas.
Americans are ready for states—the laboratories of democracy—to offer a new progressive vision for shared prosperity. This report presents a menu of state policy priorities to help people secure good jobs and good wages and to support strong and healthy communities in which all people are treated fairly and equitably.
Racism in the United States is killing black mothers and babies—here’s why where they live, learn, work, and play matters.
African American women face maternal mortality rates three to four times higher than non-Hispanic white women, and several factors within the health care system contribute to this disparity.
Both black mothers and women have long been devalued in American society, and racism must be acknowledged and confronted in the effort to reduce black maternal mortality.
Cuts to programs that provide children with health care, nutritious food, and stable housing will compromise their development during a critically important time.
State payment and delivery system reforms in Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Arkansas have been promising.
California’s Reproductive FACT Act ensures that women are informed about their reproductive health options; yet the anti-choice movement would prefer to keep them in the dark.
Through its support for fake women's health centers in NIFLA v. Becerra, the anti-choice movement again demonstrates its willingness to manipulate women's right to make informed decisions about their reproductive health.
Two decades of restrictions on public health research into gun violence has left us willfully ignorant about the full scope of this problem and the most effective interventions to prevent it.
Conservatives rely on old, inaccurate myths about Medicaid to defend their proposals to cut this essential program.
Federal cuts to advertising and outreach as well as shorter open enrollment periods appear to have dampened enrollment on HealthCare.gov.
The president's budget pays for his tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations by slashing health care, education, and other critical investments.
As Puerto Rico continues to recover from hurricanes Irma and Maria, relief efforts must emphasize gender equity.
New data from the Center for American Progress show that LGBTQ people frequently avoid health care and experience discrimination in these settings, underscoring the importance of ACA.