President Trump’s HHS budget request to Congress slashes funding for civil rights enforcement and patient privacy protections while increasing funding for religious exemptions.
Policymakers should ensure that religious liberty extends to all Americans—and that it is not misused as a license to discriminate.
Faith leaders across the United States are showing support for the Equality Act, a bill that would grant members of the LGBTQ community consistent protections.
President Trump’s end run around Congress would take nutrition assistance away from at least 755,000 people.
The right to religious freedom is an essential American protection, yet it has been distorted in recent years to cause harm and discrimination.
John Freml—whose foster daughter was taken from his home—is one of a growing number of LGBTQ individuals who has faced discrimination in adoption and foster care.
Religious exemptions allowing child placing agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ prospective parents will likely reduce the number of families available to adopt, further overburdening the child welfare system and harming the best interests of children in care.
Religious organizations and people of faith affirm that LGBTQ individuals should be allowed to adopt and foster children from child welfare organizations without facing discrimination.
A new analysis from the Center for American Progress shows key differences in health, economic security, and other indicators between bisexual and monosexual people.
New data show that nutrition and housing assistance, Medicaid, and unemployment benefits are critical to LGBTQ people’s economic security.
Forcing women and LGBTQ immigrants to return to Mexico and Central America could put them in grave danger.
Lack of data prevents analysis of the true health of a tighter labor market, especially with the LGBTQ community.
Private prison companies—which often do not operate in immigrants’ best interests and have donated large sums of money to President Trump—stand to make billions of dollars from the administration’s policy.
New analysis finds that LGBT immigrants in ICE custody are 97 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than the general population.
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.
