President Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package offers much needed support to American workers, frontline workers and small businesses.
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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.
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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.
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Data for Progress conducted a poll of likely Georgia runoff voters with Be a Hero. Read more to see our key findings.
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The United States currently faces three deepening and converging crises.
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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.
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The 2020 Democratic presidential primary saw two candidates, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, make the case for a wealth tax.
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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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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
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State and local governments play a critical role in our economy, shaping the daily lives and the futures of families across the nation.
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The coronavirus pandemic has brought the country to the brink of economic collapse.
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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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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.
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Democrats have recently put forward a number of proposals to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
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The nation needs expanded and prolonged federal relief to help people weather this storm, followed by a renewed commitment to the institutions and approaches that can prevent looming social, economic, and environmental crises.
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Using government money to drive down costs for green technologies—when deployed alongside infrastructure investment, pollution standards, and equitable safeguards for vulnerable populations—will speed up our transition to a clean and vibrant economy.
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As part of a June survey, Data for Progress sought to test support among likely voters for a public option for health insurance.
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At the end of July, the expanded unemployment insurance (UI) benefit -- passed as part of the “Coronavirus Aid and Relief Act” (CARES) -- expired.
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Left-leaning policymakers will need to build new public financial institutions to aggregate and direct capital into this new clean energy economy.
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The economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic creates a crucial opening for a speedy and deliberate move to a massive infrastructure-led rebuilding and “greening” of the U.S. economy.
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