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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 ...

Smart tariffs are an important part of industrial policy, but Trump’s tariff agenda is ill-conceived, self-defeating, and harmful to workers. Commercial freight trucks line up to cross into the ...

Multiple federal agencies manage 622 million acres of public lands, which make up 27 percent of the United States’ land area 31 and 48 percent of the land area of the 11 Western states. 32 ...

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.

Increasing levels of consolidation among private payers, driven by vertical integration and market specialization, are undermining competition and fueling higher health care costs. Over the past ...

Washington, D.C. — Today, President Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100. Following the announcement of his death Patrick Gaspard, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, released the ...

The U.S. economy has achieved staggering growth over the past several decades, with the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growing 115 percent from 1979 to 2024. 6 The post-pandemic period ...

This column provides background on Section 14(c) and guidance on how to submit a comment on the Biden administration’s proposed rule to eliminate subminimum wages for disabled people. Disabled ...

Washington, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Office of Management and Budget released a notice for proposed rulemaking eliminating Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act ...

The state of South Carolina has both some of the weakest gun laws and some of the highest levels of gun violence in the country. Nearly 100 confiscated illegal firearms—many from out-of-state ...

Without a national paid leave program, too many people today are unable to take the time they need to address their own serious health needs or those of a loved one, or to welcome a new child ...