Reports

Data for Progress and Student Borrower Protection Center consistently find broad support for loan cancellation, including among majorities of voters with no bachelor’s degrees and voters with no current student loan debt.

Guest UserJune 16, 2022Education

Holding Corporations Accountable: The Assault on LGBTQ+ Youth

Data for Progress has compiled a set of polling, policy, and data visualization resources to inform activists, corporate employees, and policymakers of the many tools available to them in our collective fight to protect the LGBTQ+ community from bigotry.

Guest UserJune 9, 2022LGBTQ, Children and Families

Measuring the Economic Benefits of the Build Back Better Agenda’s Direct Pay Provisions

The Data for Progress Jobs Model estimates the impact that a Direct Pay option would have on jobs and economic output from the expansion of credits in the BBB agenda.

Guest UserJune 6, 2022Infrastructure, Economy

Voters Strongly Disapprove of Companies Funding LGBTQ+ Hate

Corporate accountability is a key lever for activists and LGBTQ+ allies to create political accountability for the politicians behind some of the most harmful and bigoted anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in over a decade.

Guest UserMay 26, 2022LGBTQ

Economic Impacts of the CHIPS for America Act

The Data for Progress Jobs Model analysis finds that the emergency semiconductor appropriations of USICA would create or preserve over half a million jobs over the next five years while contributing more than $60 billion to GDP.

Guest UserMay 19, 2022

On the Offense: A Playbook for States to Protect and Expand Abortion Access

Fellow Arielle Swernoff outlines Data for Progress’ analysis of the context for the current abortion policy landscape and details policy recommendations.

Guest UserMay 13, 2022Healthcare

Direct Pay: Avenues Toward a Clean Energy Economy

By developing innovative ways to scale existing technologies and make them accessible to all Americans, we can finally make good on our pledge to make the U.S. a leader in the ever-growing climate movement.

Guest UserApril 21, 2022Infrastructure, Climate, Economy

Political Effects of the expanded Child Tax Credit

We find an initial CTC effect on Biden approval of roughly four percent among monthly CTC recipients.

Guest UserMarch 23, 2022

Automatic Voter Registration Report

AVR designs can be most successful in achieving increased electoral participation, greater turnout equality, and a straightforward, secure registration process.

Guest UserMarch 18, 2022Justice, Elections

It’s Time to Listen to Young Voters on Climate Action

Young voters are eager to see their leaders take action to declare a National Climate Emergency and secure a Green New Deal.

Guest UserMarch 17, 2022Climate

Economic Impacts of the US Innovation and Competition Act

Passage of USICA would be a landmark achievement for U.S. innovation policy and would help to preserve America’s historical stature as a leader in science and technology

Guest UserMarch 10, 2022Infrastructure, Economy

Introduction to Industrial Policy

The tenets of industrial policy offer a seemingly unique opportunity for building a broad coalition that cuts across polarization.

Guest UserMarch 8, 2022Infrastructure, Economy, Foreign Policy

Introduction to the Data for Progress Jobs Model

This memo serves to reintroduce the Data for Progress Jobs Model, and to provide a basic outline of our methodology as well as the results of a “backcasting” exercise in which we use our model to analyze the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.

Guest UserMarch 7, 2022Workers Rights

Messaging on Lowering Utility Costs

Climate Power and Data for Progress conducted message testing to better understand the most effective ways to frame investments in clean energy as a way to lower energy costs.

Devi RuiaFebruary 22, 2022Infrastructure, Economy

Texas’ Grid Resiliency in a Changing Climate

Texas power outages are a result of governance failures, corporate greed, and an unwillingness to recognize the need to climatize our energy infrastructure.

Devi RuiaFebruary 18, 2022Climate, State-level Polling, Economy

Corporate Crackdown Project: Report — Commerce and Transportation

This memo assesses how agencies within the DOC and the DOT can use their powers to combat supply chain and trade issues through prioritizing citizen well-being over corporate profits.

Devi RuiaFebruary 14, 2022Justice, Economy

Widely Supported Child Tax Credit Is Associated With Better Perceptions of the Economy and Greater Trust of Democrats

Voters trust in Democrats increases when they hear about efforts to continue the Child Tax Credit into 2022.

Devi RuiaFebruary 3, 2022Children and Families, Taxes and Spending, Taxes and spending, Economy

A Breath of Fresh Air: Policies for Comprehensive Asthma Mitigation in New York State

The history of environmental injustice in the U.S. is well documented and has direct correlations with asthma and other respiratory conditions.

Guest UserJanuary 26, 2022State-level Polling, Climate, Disability

Voters Equally Concerned by the Omicron Variant and Future Pandemics, Support Supplemental Pandemic Spending

Voters are supportive of authorizing funding that combats omicron and prepares for future pandemics.

Devi RuiaJanuary 24, 2022Healthcare

MaxDiff for Message and Policy Testing

Priorities USA and Data for Progress worked to verify the efficacy of the MaxDiff (Best-Worst Scaling) question format for political-message testing.

Devi RuiaJanuary 24, 2022Elections