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Memo: Voters Support Federal Investments to Improve Household Energy Efficiency

President Biden campaigned and won on a Build Back Better agenda to make much-needed investments in American infrastructure, create new jobs to help Americans recover from the coronavirus economic downturn, and address systemic environmental injustices.

Guest UserMarch 17, 2021Housing, Climate, Justice, Infrastructure, Economy

Memo: Voters Support Biden Using Executive Action To Advance Workers’ Rights

With the power of presidency, Biden wields a potent tool to improve working conditions, promote the clean energy sector, and strengthen labor unions in this country.

Guest UserMarch 3, 2021Workers Rights, Democracy, Infrastructure, Climate, Economy

Memo: A Roadmap to 100% Clean Electricity by 2035

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned and won on a bold platform for confronting the climate crisis and building a clean energy economic recovery

Guest UserFebruary 5, 2021Climate, Infrastructure, Justice, Democracy, Economy

Memo: Voters Support 100% Clean Electricity by 2035

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.

Guest UserFebruary 4, 2021Climate, Taxes and Spending, Justice, Infrastructure, Economy

Memo: Voters Want Immediate, Substantial Coronavirus Relief Aid

President Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package offers much needed support to American workers, frontline workers and small businesses.

Guest UserFebruary 3, 2021Coronavirus, Taxes and Spending, Economy

Memo: Voters Want A Public Option for Broadband, Child Care and Housing

Data for Progress polled 1,116 likely voters nationally to measure attitudes toward the creation of public options for broadband, child care, and housing, and government-directed investments in infrastructure.

Guest UserJanuary 26, 2021Children and Families, Housing, Taxes and Spending, Economy

Memo: The Case for Cancelling Student Debt

In the space of a few years, the prospect of cancelling outstanding student loans has moved from the far-out fringe of higher education policy reforms to the center of the policy debate, and it could become actual executive branch policy in the very near future.

Guest UserDecember 17, 2020Education, Taxes and Spending, Economy

Memo: Georgia Voters Support Progressive Issues

Data for Progress conducted a poll of likely Georgia runoff voters with Be a Hero. Read more to see our key findings.

Guest UserDecember 9, 2020State-level Polling, Elections, Healthcare, Taxes and Spending, Economy

Memo: Struggling to Breathe - Asthma, Pollution, and the Fight for Environmental Justice

Asthma rates in the United States are intimately connected with environmental policy choices.

Guest UserDecember 3, 2020Guest Writers, Climate, Healthcare, Justice, Infrastructure, Economy, Disability

Memo: We Why Need a New Civilian Conservation Corps—And How to Do It

The United States currently faces three deepening and converging crises.

Guest UserOctober 9, 2020Guest Writers, Climate, Taxes and Spending, Economy

Memo: New Yorkers Support Raising Taxes on the Rich and Inclusive Relief Efforts

As part of a September survey of likely voters in the state of New York, Data for Progress tested attitudes towards a slate of progressive proposals and measured attitudes towards raising revenue or cutting public services.

Guest UserSeptember 30, 2020State-level Polling, Taxes and Spending, Housing, Immigration, Economy

Memo: Voters in Key States Support a Wealth Tax

The 2020 Democratic presidential primary saw two candidates, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, make the case for a wealth tax.

Guest UserSeptember 22, 2020Taxes and Spending, Economy

Memo: Texas Voters Support Bold Climate Actions

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.

Guest UserSeptember 17, 2020State-level Polling, Climate, Workers Rights, Justice, Taxes and Spending, Economy

Memo: End Corporate Tax Avoidance and Tax Competition - Collect the Tax Deficit of Multinationals

In recent decades, governments have steadily lowered corporate tax rates in an attempt to gain jobs, investment, and tax base at the expense of other countries

Guest UserSeptember 17, 2020Taxes and Spending, Guest Writers, Economy

Memo: Voters See States as Essential and Want Them to Receive Aid

State and local governments play a critical role in our economy, shaping the daily lives and the futures of families across the nation.

Guest UserSeptember 14, 2020Taxes and Spending, Economy

Memo: The Case for a Federal Job Guarantee Program

The coronavirus pandemic has brought the country to the brink of economic collapse.

Guest UserSeptember 10, 2020Guest Writers, Coronavirus, Workers Rights, Taxes and Spending, Economy

Memo: Voters Support the THRIVE Agenda

Momentum is building for an economic recovery plan that creates good jobs, counteracts racial injustice, supports public health, and tackles the climate crisis.

Guest UserSeptember 10, 2020State-level Polling, Healthcare, Taxes and Spending, Justice, Climate, Economy

Memo: Voters Demand Protection and Funding for the USPS

By substantial margins, nearly all segments of voters prefer the USPS be funded as an essential service like the military, rather requiring it to cover its own costs like a business.

Guest UserSeptember 2, 2020Taxes and Spending, Economy

Memo: Water Regulation and Injustice in the United States

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.

Guest UserAugust 27, 2020Guest Writers, Climate, Justice, Infrastructure, Economy

Memo: Voters Support a Progressive Climate Innovation Agenda

Democrats have recently put forward a number of proposals to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

Guest UserAugust 27, 2020Climate, Taxes and Spending, Economy