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State Fact Sheets: How the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans Are Increasing Costs for American Families Fact Sheet
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State Fact Sheets: How the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans Are Increasing Costs for American Families

This series of fact sheets provides insights into how the OBBBA and the administration’s policies will increase the costs of health care, food, energy, and borrowing in each state in the near future.

Amina Khalique, Kennedy Andara, Natalie Baker, 2 More Sara Partridge, Kyle Ross

10th Annual DACA Survey: 2024 Findings Reveal What’s at Stake for Recipients and the United States Report
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10th Annual DACA Survey: 2024 Findings Reveal What’s at Stake for Recipients and the United States

The 10th annual DACA survey illustrates the positive contributions that DACA recipients have made to America and reveals the significant, widespread disruptions that would result from ending DACA, highlighting more than ever the need for congressional action to provide pathways to citizenship for recipients.

Tom K. Wong, Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec, Diana Pliego, 4 More Karen Fierro Ruiz, Silva Mathema, Ben Greenho, Rosa Barrientos-Ferrer

With Americans Facing Utility Bill Increases This Year, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Threatens To Drive Costs Even Higher Article
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With Americans Facing Utility Bill Increases This Year, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Threatens To Drive Costs Even Higher

Across the country, nearly 60 electric and gas utilities are hiking or trying to hike utility bills this year, totaling nearly $38.3 billion for 56.7 million electric customers and $3.5 billion for 26 million natural gas customers; if the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passes, these bills will spike even higher.

Akshay Thyagarajan, Shannon Baker-Branstetter

Research in Ruin: Slashing the NIH Will Stifle Development of Lifesaving Medical Treatments and Harm the Economy Past Event

Research in Ruin: Slashing the NIH Will Stifle Development of Lifesaving Medical Treatments and Harm the Economy

Please join the Center for American Progress for the next in a series of virtual events highlighting the impact that DOGE’s cuts are having on the lives of everyday Americans; this event will focus on how cuts to NIH will limit progress in preventing and curing diseases and damage the economy in the process.

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Congressional Republicans’ Plan To Cut Clean Energy Investments Would Cause Higher Energy Bills and Job Losses Across States Article
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Congressional Republicans’ Plan To Cut Clean Energy Investments Would Cause Higher Energy Bills and Job Losses Across States

The clean energy supply chain spurred by U.S. investment has created jobs and helped to lower electricity costs; repealing these investments midstream would increase electricity prices for households and businesses in nearly every state.

Shannon Baker-Branstetter, Jamie Friedman

How Cuts to NIH Research Funding Would Hurt States Article
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How Cuts to NIH Research Funding Would Hurt States

Proposed changes to the National Institutes of Health’s $48 billion budget would risk jobs, threaten state economies, and hamper progress toward prevention and treatment of diseases such as cancer.

Marquisha Johns

Project 2025 Proposes Eliminating Aid for Families and Businesses Rebuilding After Storms Article
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Project 2025 Proposes Eliminating Aid for Families and Businesses Rebuilding After Storms

As climate change makes extreme weather events more common and more costly for Americans, the far right’s new authoritarian playbook would leave communities with fewer resources to rebuild after disasters like Hurricane Debby strike.

David Ballard

New Samsung Semiconductor Plant in Taylor, Texas Article
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New Samsung Semiconductor Plant in Taylor, Texas

An investment by Samsung, spurred by funding from the CHIPS and Science Act, will create a new semiconductor plant in Taylor, Texas, to complement the company’s previous investment in chips in Austin, Texas.

Event Recap: State Policy Efforts To Enhance Consumer Protections in Health Care and Improve the Value of Insurance Article
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Event Recap: State Policy Efforts To Enhance Consumer Protections in Health Care and Improve the Value of Insurance

The second session in the Center for American Progress’ state health care affordability series highlighted policies that Connecticut, Tennessee, and Texas have implemented to address common barriers that undermine affordability and compromise access to care.

Natasha Murphy

2024 Affordable Care Act Marketplace Plan Selections by Congressional District Interactive
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2024 Affordable Care Act Marketplace Plan Selections by Congressional District

A new CAP interactive explores the proportion of nonelderly people who made federally facilitated marketplace plan selections during the 2024 open enrollment period by congressional district. Without congressional action, consumers will lose the enhanced financial assistance that supported record levels of enrollment.

Nicole Rapfogel

Monthly Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Savings by State Interactive
Farxiga, Xarelto, Entresto, and Eliquis are made available to customers at the New City Halsted Pharmacy in Chicago.

Monthly Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Savings by State

Medicare drug price negotiation will result in thousands of dollars in net price savings for 30-day supplies of the first 10 drugs undergoing negotiation; here’s how those savings add up state by state.

Nicole Rapfogel

Reforming the Governance of Metropolitan Planning Organizations Report
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Reforming the Governance of Metropolitan Planning Organizations

The lack of geographic balance on the policy boards that govern metropolitan planning organizations skews transportation investment decisions toward highway expansion and unsustainable land use.

Kevin DeGood

Fact Sheet: 3 Trends in K-12 Assessments Across the Country Fact Sheet
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Fact Sheet: 3 Trends in K-12 Assessments Across the Country

Reforms of state assessment systems could measure student learning more accurately and effectively, providing educators the information they need to close achievement gaps.

Allie Pearce

A Flawed Environmental Analysis Underpins I-35 Expansion in Austin, Texas Article

A Flawed Environmental Analysis Underpins I-35 Expansion in Austin, Texas

Instead of supporting the expansion of I-35, Austin should redirect funds toward expanding public transportation to provide residents with robust alternatives to driving.

Kevin DeGood

CFPB Complaints State Fact Sheets: The CFPB Helps Consumers Nationwide Article
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CFPB Complaints State Fact Sheets: The CFPB Helps Consumers Nationwide

The CFPB has stood up for everyday consumers and fought against unfair treatment across the United States, addressing consumer complaints nationwide.

Crystal Weise, Lilith Fellowes-Granda, David Correa

1 Year Without Roe Personal Story
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1 Year Without Roe

Doctors, doulas, and nurse practitioners detail their experiences since the overturn of Roe v. Wade and their fears in the rapidly evolving legal landscape of abortion care.

Reforming the TIFIA Loan Program To Advance National Policy Goals Report
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Reforming the TIFIA Loan Program To Advance National Policy Goals

Major transportation projects should be judged on their long-term social, environmental, and economic consequences—not just their ability to generate revenue to meet debt obligations.

Kevin DeGood

Making Castner Range a National Monument Would Help Nature-Deprived Communities Report
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Making Castner Range a National Monument Would Help Nature-Deprived Communities

President Biden can use the Antiquities Act to close El Paso’s nature gap by designating Castner Range as a national monument, for which the area’s majority Latino and low-income community has been advocating for more than 50 years.

Sam Zeno, Shanna Edberg, Brenda Gallegos

Continuing Efforts To Slow Violent Crime Report
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Continuing Efforts To Slow Violent Crime

Houston, Boston, and Newark have improved public safety through violence prevention efforts outside traditional law enforcement.

Rachael Eisenberg, Allie Preston

Some States Are Ready To Punish Abortion in a Post-Roe World Report
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Some States Are Ready To Punish Abortion in a Post-Roe World

For generations, Americans have known abortion to be a fundamental right; if Roe v. Wade is overturned, some states will quickly make it a crime.

Elyssa Spitzer

What Counties and Cities Can Do To Curb Gun Violence in Texas Report
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What Counties and Cities Can Do To Curb Gun Violence in Texas

While intransigent elected officials in Texas impede action at the state level, city and county officials can take meaningful steps to prevent gun violence that do not require legislative action.

Marissa Edmund, Alex Barrio, Nicole Golden

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