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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

Memo: Voters Overwhelmingly Support a Range of Policies to Cancel Student Debt

Student debt has increased dramatically in past decades and currently affects 45 million Americans, with about 4.4 million borrowers who have been making payments on student loans for more than twenty years.

Guest UserOctober 7, 2021Education, Justice, Taxes and Spending, Taxes and spending, Economy

Memo: Progressive Guide to the American Jobs Plan

A guide to the key pillars of the American Jobs Plan and how they compare with other progressive proposals.

Lew BlankJune 16, 2021Justice, Children and Families, Climate, Coronavirus, Taxes and Spending, Housing, Education, Economy

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: 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: Voters Support Accountability for Predatory Colleges and Executives, Support Tackling Student Debt Issues

As part of a September survey of likely voters in 11 swing states, including Florida, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, Data for Progress along with Student Defense tested attitudes towards for-profit colleges, Department of Education regulations (ED), and loan forgiveness.

Guest UserSeptember 25, 2020Education

Memo: Ending Dispossession Through Student Loan Collection - Policies & Polling

The student loan debt crisis is leading to tremendous dispossession of wealth and income from borrowers.

Guest UserAugust 5, 2020Education, Justice, Taxes and Spending, Economy

Memo: Congress Must Provide Real Aid to People in the Next Stimulus Package

Congress has the ability to provide comprehensive aid to households in the next stimulus package.

Guest UserAugust 3, 2020Guest Writers, Taxes and Spending, Coronavirus, Workers Rights, Housing, Education, Children and Families, Economy

Memo: Voters Support the Biden-Sanders Task Force Recommendations

Over the last two years, Data for Progress and YouGov Blue have fielded twenty-five national surveys—totaling over 1,600 questions—to measure public opinion across various policy areas.

Guest UserJuly 28, 2020Climate, Justice, Education, Taxes and Spending, Healthcare, Immigration, Economy

Memo: The Public Favors Supporting Students, Not Policing Them

Amidst the larger debate about funding for law enforcement, Data for Progress and The Justice Collaborative conducted a national survey to examine attitudes toward police presence in schools.

Guest UserJuly 22, 2020Education, Children and Families, Justice

Progressive Cabinet Project

Portfolio Description: The Department of State is perhaps the most visible and prestigious of any cabinet departments. The department presides over a wide array of tasks relating to the United States’s external affairs, including representing America abroad and advising the President on matters of foreign policy.

Green New DealGuest UserJune 11, 2020Elections, Children and Families, Climate, Education, Healthcare, Housing, Justice, Workers Rights

Memo: Voters Across the Political Spectrum Support a Host of Progressive Reforms

The ongoing coronavirus emergency has exposed existing inequalities.

CoronavirusGuest UserMay 28, 2020Workers Rights, Education, Healthcare

Memo: Voters Support Sweeping Action to Address the Economic Fallout of the Coronavirus Pandemic

The economy is in free fall. The clearest indicator of this grim reality is the latest unemployment numbers: The United States Department of Labor registered 6.6 million initial unemployment claims for the week ending on March 28. This surpassed the previous record (3.3 million), which was set the week prior. This rapidly deteriorating situation is one that most voters are acutely aware of.

CoronavirusGuest UserApril 10, 2020Coronavirus, Taxes and Spending, Housing, Workers Rights, Education, Economy

Memo: Green Industrial Policy for Domestic and Global Climate Justice Is Popular

The global economy is hurting and conditions are likely to worsen substantially. The spread of COVID-19 has reached global pandemic status—if it is not there already. And increasing disruption is triggering underlying weaknesses in the global and domestic US economies. Besides the terrible short-term costs of illness and recession, we must worry about a fossil fueled reboot where “retaliatory emissions” would result from a return to oil, gas, and coal-fueled growth. Ongoing carbon pollution threatens runaway climate chaos.

HousingGuest UserMarch 12, 2020Climate, Justice, Taxes and Spending, Education, Economy

Memo: Voters Support Overhauling America's School Meal Programs

Nearly two-thirds of Americans, including a majority on both sides of the aisle, want the federal government to ensure that school lunches are fresh, healthy, prepared onsite, and locally grown. This polling indicates strong support for overhauling meal programs in America’s schools, which would create structural change in the country’s food economy and lead to a number of benefits for schoolchildren, farmers, and workers.

Green New DealSean McElweeOctober 16, 2019Children and Families, Education, Climate, Workers Rights, Taxes and Spending