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Washington, D.C. — To keep track of the ever-changing status of U.S. diplomacy with North Korea, the Center for American Progress has launched an interactive feature that monitors the progress—or lack thereof—of efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. The North Korean Diplomacy Scorecard is a one-stop shop for current information on where things stand with...
Washington, D.C. — In a new report from the Center for American Progress, fishermen on the front lines of climate change—from Alaska and California to Maine and Florida—reveal the impact of warming oceans and what it means for America’s fishing communities. These fishermen understand the negative consequences of climate change on the commercial and recreational...
Washington, D.C. — Center for American Progress Economist Michael Madowitz released the following statement today on the August 2018 Employment Situation figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: The U.S. Department of Labor reports the economy added 201,000 jobs in July, with the unemployment rate falling to 3.9 percent percent. Wages grew 2.9 percent over the past year, continuing to tread water when rising...
Washington, D.C. — As day three of Senate confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh comes to a close, Jake Faleschini, director of the Federal Courts Program at the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement: For three shocking days, America has watched a split screen. On one side, there’s new evidence nearly...
Join CAP at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco Washington, D.C. — The Trump administration has twice proposed unprecedented, draconian budget cuts to the federal agencies and programs that support climate science research and data collection. Although Congress has so far roundly rejected those cuts and saved critical satellite missions and other programs...
Washington, D.C. — The United States must place democratic values at the heart of its foreign policy if it wants to strengthen democracy around the world and help other nations resist authoritarian influence, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told an audience Thursday at the Center for American Progress. Albright and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)...
Washington, D.C. — In a major new report, the Center for American Progress lays out the case for a democratic values-based U.S. foreign policy that makes defending democracy a national security priority. The report urges the U.S. to adopt bold new policies to regain the advantage in great power competition, help vulnerable democracies resist authoritarian...
Washington, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service (ERS) released new data showing that, in 2017, 15 million U.S. households—nearly 1 in 8—were food insecure. The data come just weeks after the Trump administration announced that it will move the ERS to a yet-to-be-determined location outside of the Washington metro area...
Washington, D.C. — With cities and communities on the front lines of rising seas, powerful hurricanes, and more intense downpours and heat waves, it is vital that Floridians prepare to withstand new threats in the 21st century. To tackle these problems, a new report from the Center for American Progress and the CLEO Institute suggests the...
Washington, D.C. — Unions help increase the wealth for all workers, but new research from the Center for American Progress shows that unions boost wealth the most for families of color, narrowing the racial wealth gap. Using data from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances, CAP found that union members have greater wealth than...
The analysis was exclusively reported on by Esther Cepeda of The Washington Post Writers Group. Washington, D.C. — The United States is undergoing demographic changes that continue to reshape entire communities, but little attention has so far been paid to how this impacts rural communities. A new Center for American Progress analysis provides a more complete...
Washington, D.C. — Last Friday, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) introduced—with bipartisan support—the Clean Slate Act, a bill that would expand second chances by automatically sealing federal criminal records for Americans with low-level nonviolent drug charges, including all nonviolent marijuana-related offenses. After decades of overcriminalization, up to 100 million people now have some kind of...
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Center for American Progress released a new analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data looking at the unequal expansion of access to paid sick days for private-sector workers. Over the past 12 years, the percentage of workers without access to paid sick time has fallen by roughly a third, from 43...
Washington, D.C. — The quality of instructional materials utilized in the classroom plays a significant role in shaping student outcomes and teacher performance and preparation. A new analysis of instructional materials utilized and recommended by the nation’s 30 largest school districts for fourth- and eighth-grade math and language arts finds that, for what can be a...
Washington, D.C. — Oil and gas companies could be using America’s public lands to pad their own bottom lines at the expense of U.S. taxpayers, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress. While nearly 26 million acres of federal land were leased to oil and gas developers as of 2017, less...