DACA recipients collectively earn nearly $27.9 billion and contribute nearly $2.1 billion to Social Security and Medicare each year, making the economy and their communities stronger. Activists ...

We must continue to invest in research, technology, and innovation in a manner that ensures participation and benefits communities that are too often left behind. Only through such an approach can ...

Reducing costs and improving ESI affordability is a priority for the business community: A 2021 KFF and Purchasers Business Group on Health survey found that 87 percent of business leaders ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Proposed National Marine Sanctuaries Provide a Pathway Toward Indigenous-Led Ocean Conservation The United States can move closer to its dual goals of increasing access to nature for all Americans ...

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Winning the Fight for Voting Rights: State Voting Rights Acts ...

We focus on developing policies to shrink the justice system’s footprint, improve public health and safety, and promote equity and accountability. We work to advance meaningful alternatives to ...

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 ...

We promote policies to ensure disabled people of color and those most marginalized by ableism and other forms of oppression can participate in the economy and democracy. We broaden the public ...