Courts and the Affordable Care Act

STATEMENT: CAP Praises President Biden’s Executive Order Relaunching White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
STATEMENT: CAP Praises President Biden’s Executive Order Relaunching White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Test blurb
By Abbey Meller
Criminal Justice

Coronavirus

STATEMENT: CAP Praises President Biden’s Executive Order Relaunching White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
STATEMENT: CAP Praises President Biden’s Executive Order Relaunching White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Test blurb
By Abbey Meller
Criminal Justice
The Opportunity and Counseling Corps: Helping K-12 Students and Young Adults Recover From the Coronavirus Crisis
The Opportunity and Counseling Corps: Helping K-12 Students and Young Adults Recover From the Coronavirus Crisis
Investing in an Opportunity and Counseling Corps would provide tutoring, counseling, and other supports to students as well as employment and skill development for young adults to help them recover from the effects of the coronavirus.
By Neil Campbell, Abby Quirk, and Roby Chatterji
Education, K-12
10 Ways the Trump Administration Has Failed Rural America (and 10 Ways To Overcome It)
10 Ways the Trump Administration Has Failed Rural America (and 10 Ways To Overcome It)
After four years under siege, rural America deserves equitable investment and a meaningful partnership with Washington.
By Zoe Willingham
Economy

#WeBuildEdu

Acting ICE Director Albence Commits to Deporting DACA Recipients, Highlighting the Real Stakes of the Pending Supreme Court Case
Acting ICE Director Albence Commits to Deporting DACA Recipients, Highlighting the Real Stakes of the Pending Supreme Court Case
The Supreme Court must take note of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s stated intention to deport DACA recipients when it decides whether to allow efforts to terminate the program to move forward.
By Tom Jawetz and Sofia Carratala
Immigration

Events

Past Events

Postsecondary Education

The Looming Student Loan Servicing Crisis
The Looming Student Loan Servicing Crisis
The Trump administration’s inability to complete a new student loan servicing competition has set 33 million borrowers up for potential disaster next year.
By Ben Miller
Education, Postsecondary

Taxes

Capital Gains Tax Preference Should Be Ended, Not Expanded
Capital Gains Tax Preference Should Be Ended, Not Expanded
Congress should close—not expand—capital gains loopholes and tax income from wealth the same as income from work.
By Galen Hendricks and Seth Hanlon
Economy
IRS Budget Cuts Let Wealthy Tax Cheats Get Away With It
IRS Budget Cuts Let Wealthy Tax Cheats Get Away With It
New reports illustrate the toll that IRS budget cuts have taken on tax enforcement.
By Galen Hendricks and Seth Hanlon
Economy
Foreign Investors Were Big Winners From Trump’s Tax Law
Foreign Investors Were Big Winners From Trump’s Tax Law
The 2017 tax law gave bigger tax cuts to foreign investors than middle- and working-class Americans in all of the states Trump carried in 2016.
By Seth Hanlon
Economy

Poverty

Count People Where They Are
Count People Where They Are
The U.S. Census Bureau must address past and current operational challenges to ensure that decennial censuses to come can better address homelessness and provide support for lifesaving programs.
By Jaboa Lake, Jae June Lee, Meghan Maury, and Cara Brumfield
Poverty

Progressive Pulse

Generation Progress
TalkPoverty

LGBTQ Rights

The State of the LGBTQ Community in 2020
The State of the LGBTQ Community in 2020
A comprehensive new study from the Center for American Progress finds that many LGBTQ people continue to face discrimination in their personal lives, in the workplace and the public sphere, and in their access to critical health care.
By Sharita Gruberg, Lindsay Mahowald, and John Halpin
LGBTQ Rights

The Solutions We Need

Systematic Inequality and Economic Opportunity
Systematic Inequality and Economic Opportunity
Eliminating racial disparities in economic well-being requires long-term, targeted interventions to expand access to opportunity for people of color.
By Danyelle Solomon, Connor Maxwell, and Abril Castro
Race and Ethnicity
17 Ways Companies Can Help Americans Vote Safely
17 Ways Companies Can Help Americans Vote Safely
This election, forward-looking businesses can provide an essential service to their communities—preserving the right to vote while also protecting their stakeholders from COVID-19.
By Alex Tausanovitch, Sarah Bonk, and Richard Eidlin
Democracy and Government
The True Cost of Providing Safe Child Care During the Coronavirus Pandemic
The True Cost of Providing Safe Child Care During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Thousands of child care providers are at risk of permanent closure without significant public investment.
By Simon Workman and Steven Jessen-Howard
Early Childhood

K-12 Education

Early High School STEM Perceptions Associated With Postsecondary Outcomes
Early High School STEM Perceptions Associated With Postsecondary Outcomes
A new CAP study finds that the future success of ninth graders—from high school graduation to college enrollment—is correlated with how they rate the usefulness and engagement of their math and science classes.
By Abby Quirk, Neil Campbell, and Ulrich Boser
Education, K-12