Reports

Memo: Federal Investments in Clean Energy, Infrastructure, and Innovation Enjoy Bipartisan Support

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned on a Build Back Better plan to make a historic $2 trillion investment in putting Americans back to work transforming the nation’s infrastructure and energy grid.

Guest UserMarch 18, 2021Infrastructure, Climate, Taxes and Spending, Economy

Memo: Electrifying America’s Public Transportation Systems - An Economic and Environmental Evaluation

Greening America’s public transportation infrastructure is a vital component of tackling the climate crisis.

Guest UserMarch 18, 2021Climate, Infrastructure, Healthcare, Workers Rights, Economy

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 Want More Resilient Electoral and Economic Institutions

As part of a December survey, Data for Progress polled national likely voters about increased funding for election administration.

Guest UserMarch 15, 2021Democracy

Memo: Voters Want to Expand Medicaid

In all eight states we find high levels of support for Medicaid expansion

Guest UserMarch 5, 2021Healthcare, Justice, Disability

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: Voters Oppose State Level Budget Cuts and Want Public Sector Employees Protected

We find that likely voters are extremely concerned about the prospect of additional cuts to the services state and local governments provide.

Guest UserMarch 3, 2021Taxes and Spending, Workers Rights, Justice

Memo: Support for State and Local Aid is Highly Popular When Framed Around Pandemic Relief Efforts

We find that specifying aid around pandemic relief measures boosts support for state and local aid as part of a pandemic relief package.

Guest UserMarch 2, 2021Coronavirus, Taxes and Spending, Healthcare

Memo: Reclaiming Regulation - Making the Public’s Values Heard in Regulatory Analysis

For nearly 40 years, the federal government has evaluated new regulations using a peculiar yardstick known as cost-benefit analysis.

Guest UserFebruary 25, 2021Democracy, Climate

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: Guaranteed Income for Kids Transitioning out of Foster Care

More and more in America, young adults rely on their parents and other relatives for housing and financial support well into their 20s.

Guest UserFebruary 5, 2021Guest Writers, Children and Families, Taxes and Spending, Justice, Healthcare

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 Overwhelmingly Support a People’s Vaccine and Bold Coronavirus Relief for Working Families

As part of a January 2021 survey, Data for Progress and Oxfam America asked 1,140 likely voters nationally about their attitudes towards coronavirus relief broadly and, more specifically, how vaccines should be distributed.

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

Memo: Combating The Opioid Epidemic - A Bipartisan Platform

Nearly 72,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2019—a record number—according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and an increase of nearly 5% from 2018.

Guest UserFebruary 3, 2021

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: Building a Progressive Regulatory Agenda - How a Better Cost-benefit Analysis Process Can be Used to Tackle Climate Change

Despite common political narratives that cast regulations in negative terms — describing them as burdensome red tape or confusing legalese — we find that likely voters are actually quite receptive to more assertive uses of regulations.

Guest UserFebruary 2, 2021Climate, Democracy

Memo: Voters Across the Political Spectrum Want For-Profit Colleges to Invest in Students, Not Shareholders

For-profit colleges have a long and well documented history of consumer abuses, deception, and fraud.

Guest UserJanuary 28, 2021Education

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

Resolving Our Medical Debt Crisis: The Case for Health Care Consumer Financial Protection

Unfair health care pricing and aggressive medical debt collection practices have created financial devastation for millions of Americans.

Guest UserJanuary 12, 2021Guest Writers, Healthcare, Disability

Memo: The Google Antitrust Suit and the Forward March of Anti-Monopoly Policy

Antitrust has long been treated as a wonkish field outside the political mainstream, the last few years have seen a revival in widespread interest in antitrust policy.

Guest UserDecember 29, 2020Antitrust, Big Tech