As part of their jobs and justice-centered climate agenda, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned and won on achieving a 100% clean, carbon-free power sector by 2035, investing $2 trillion in clean energy and infrastructure, and ensuring 40% of new clean energy investments go to disadvantaged communities.
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For decades, Supreme Court Justices with narrow professional backgrounds have infused the law with a one-sided and often false view of policing, favoring police power over civil liberties. Diversifying the bench is both a necessary and, new polling shows, popular corrective.
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Asthma rates in the United States are intimately connected with environmental policy choices.
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President Trump has spent his years in the White House undermining U.S. immigration policy.
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The United States is in the midst of a housing crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic catastrophe are making it worse.
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In a series of September and October surveys, Data for Progress assessed voters’ concerns about the impacts of pollution, inequality and climate change on their own lives as well as support for several policies and approaches Evergreen Action addresses in this memo.
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The issue of Puerto Rico’s future has historically been used by both Democrats and Republicans to draw support from an ever growing diaspora without ever really taking decisive action once elected.
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As peaceful protesters throughout the United States challenge the police killings of Black women and men, they are confronted today with fully militarized police forces.
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For decades, prosecutors and advocates strove to make the criminal legal system more victim-centered.
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With the November election right around the corner, voters across the country are making their electoral choices in the midst of two major crises: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and the climate crisis.
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Momentum is building for an economic recovery plan that creates good jobs, counteracts racial injustice, supports public health, and tackles the climate crisis.
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As the coronavirus has spread throughout Florida, not all communities in the Sunshine State have been impacted equally.
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As the coronavirus continues to spread throughout the country, farmworker communities have been particularly hard hit.
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Racial disparities in health and wellbeing are well documented.
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Amidst significant legal challenges and pushback from protestors, several major oil and gas pipeline projects were halted in July 2020.
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Amid the push to reduce the footprint of policing in the United States, there is increasing attention on shifting crisis response away from law enforcement.
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The already unequal distribution of environmental costs and benefits has been gradually exacerbated in the United States, as elsewhere, by climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Over the past several months, protests against police violence and the criminalization of communities of color have increased focus and attention on calls to defund the police and limit their political influence.
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To reduce police violence and abuses of power, officers’ contacts with the public can be limited by transferring some policing functions to non-police agencies that can better promote individual and societal well-being.
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Same-day voter registration—where a voter can both register and vote on Election Day—improves democracy in the United States by making it easier for people to vote.
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