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Over 100 community, civil rights, consumer, and student advocacy organizations urge House and Senate leadership to insist on student debt cancellation for all borrowers during negotiations over the next coronavirus relief package.
Testimony and Public Comment
July 15, 2020
This presentation outlines the ways that student debt both contributes to, and is a cause of, America’s historic and persistent racial wealth divide.
Testimony and Public Comment
May 22, 2020
Ways to increase access to the ballot for people who are released from incarceration and for eligible voters who are currently incarcerated.
Policy Briefs
May 20, 2020
Naila Awan
Shruti Banerjee
Progressives must see every policy fight as about more than its issues —it's an opportunity to shift power to Black and brown communities and working families.
Policy Briefs
April 28, 2020
The three sets of steps policymakers and election officials must take to ensure that Black and brown Americans—and all Americans—can exercise their fundamental right to vote in 2020 and beyond.
Policy Briefs
April 28, 2020
One New York State bill would interrupt the cycle of discrimination that comes with employment credit checks.
Testimony and Public Comment
March 3, 2020
The Supreme Court should hold that Title VII bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The suspension of driver’s licenses for unpaid criminal justice fines and fees should be found unconstitutional.
Litigation
May 29, 2019
Demos
National Council for Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women
The Department's proposed "EAP Rule" fails to sufficiently safeguard working people.
Testimony and Public Comment
May 21, 2019
The CCPA is a climate bill, a racial justice bill, a public health bill, and an economic development bill. We need it to be all of these things.
Testimony and Public Comment
May 17, 2019
How We Can Fix the Housing Affordability Crisis
Policy Briefs
April 26, 2019
How the Climate & Community Protection Act will Increase Resiliency for New York’s Latinx Communities
Policy Briefs
April 15, 2019
Lew Daly
Priya Mulgaonkar
We stand in solidarity with Representative Ilhan Omar and firmly against the rise of Islamophobic attacks and attempts to divide us as a people.
Testimony and Public Comment
April 15, 2019
New York State’s Climate and Community Protection Act (CCPA) is a bold climate action policy for the people of New York.
Policy Briefs
March 20, 2019
H.R. 1, the For the People Act, is the boldest and most comprehensive proposal to strengthen our democracy since the aftermath of Watergate.
Testimony and Public Comment
February 14, 2019
Adding a question on citizenship status to the decennial census to which every household in the United States is required to respond is entirely unnecessary for the proper performance of the Census Bureau’s functions, and will greatly impair the quality, utility and clarity of the 2020 Census.
Testimony and Public Comment
August 7, 2018
Brenda Wright
Chiraag Bains
The Debt-Free College Act of 2018 would create a new federal-state partnership that re-funds our neglected system of public colleges and job training.
Policy Briefs
March 22, 2018
"We know this: the super rich and corporations don’t need a tax cut. The 1 percent are doing just fine."
Testimony and Public Comment
December 1, 2017
The American Society of Civil Engineers has graded our infrastructure a D+, poor and at risk. Congress must act.
Testimony and Public Comment
June 22, 2017
Why Protections for Schools, Hospitals and Courthouses Are Essential
Policy Briefs
March 20, 2017
Katherine Culliton-González