Demetria McCain, director of Policy at the Legal Defense Fund, will moderate a panel discussion about state voting rights acts.

States have many opportunities to leverage Medicaid to expand home visiting. For this reason, interventions that help families provide a nurturing, healthy environment are absolutely critical.

The poor, the professionals, and the missing middle need policies that allow them to achieve the American Dream, write Heather Boushey and Joan C. Williams in this report. Work-family conflict is ...

The authors conducted online research to investigate the consolidation of early childhood education programs in 11 states that either have long-standing consolidated agencies or have recently ...

There is no single, standard model for how to improve entry into the teaching profession. What a district, institution of higher education, or nonprofit organization might choose to do is ...

Growing vaccine hesitancy, driven by misinformation and disinformation, threatens the health of American children and ...

The Center for American Progress is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong ...

Shortly after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway claimed that false statements coming from the White House were actually “alternative facts ...

Washington, D.C. — Today Cecile Richards, longtime activist and former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America died at the age of 67. In response, Patrick Gaspard, president and CEO ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and increasing intensity of extreme weather conditions and natural disasters have exposed the many inequities and weaknesses in the United States’ public health infrastructure.

Mitchell Kapor is a pioneer of the personal computing revolution. He is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" which made the ...