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Voters in Key States Support Expanded Unemployment Insurance
From the Document: "At the end of July, the expanded unemployment insurance (UI) benefit -- passed as part of the 'Coronavirus Aid and Relief Act' (CARES) -- expired. In the month of July, expanded UI provided approximately 30 million unemployed Americans an extra $600 per week. The goal of this policy was to ensure that workers would see 100 percent of their wage income replaced during the pandemic. In a survey conducted by Data for Progress at the end of the July into early August, we polled voters in four states that will be crucial for determining whether or not Democrats are able to win control of the Senate, specifically, North Carolina, Maine, Iowa, and Arizona. As part of this, we asked voters their opinions on the expanded UI program, namely, whether they thought it was necessary and if they wanted to see the program extended until the unemployment rate falls below pre-pandemic levels. We found that voters both think that this expansion was necessary and want to see the program continued."
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Winter, Ethan
2020-08
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Congress Must Provide Real Aid to People in the Next Stimulus Package
From the Executive Summary: "Congress has the ability to provide comprehensive aid to households in the next stimulus package. At its core, the new legislation must provide recurring, inclusive, and long-term relief for individuals and families. This relief must not end at an arbitrary date by which Congress wishes the coronavirus will magically disappear. It must give people money and money equivalents for their necessary expenses, not offer them what amounts to more credit by pushing off the due date for their debts. And it must provide ways for parents to take care of their children while they work."
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Foohey, Pamela; Greene, Sara Sternberg
2020-08
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Need for a Pandemic Merger Moratorium
From the Executive Summary: "During a pandemic, any greater consolidation of corporations is a risk to health, jobs, and small businesses. Instead of charging forward with more mergers during the coronavirus-created economic crisis, we should impose a moratorium until the Federal Trade Commission can determine that small businesses, workers, and consumers are no longer under the financial stress wrought by the pandemic. A pandemic merger moratorium, such as the Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act introduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, would: [1] Protect small and medium-sized businesses from pandemic profiteering; [2] Protect jobs and workers; and [3] Protect our healthcare system. Recent polling by Data for Progress shows wide, bipartisan support for a pandemic merger ban for big companies."
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Teachout, Zephyr
2020-08
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Climate Case for a National Investment Authority
From the Introduction: "The economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic creates a crucial opening for a speedy and deliberate move to a massive infrastructure-led rebuilding and 'greening' of the U.S. economy. In the wake of the worst health crisis in over a century, potentially followed by the worst economic depression in nearly as long a time, the political mood in the U.S. is increasingly open to big and bold solutions. As polls show, demand for comprehensive strategic solutions is especially strong in the context of addressing global climate change."
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Omarova, Saule T.
2020-08
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Voters Think the Existing Economic Order is Stacked Against Workers
From the Executive Summary: "Unemployment has skyrocketed due to the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout, with 38.6 million jobless claims filed in the past nine weeks. Food insecurity is significantly higher than at any time in the past twenty years, and many Americans may be falling into poverty. As lawmakers consider additional economic stimulus to help the economy and labor force recover, it is important for them to understand voters' opinions on unemployment, poverty, and the structure of the economy more generally. It allows lawmakers to fashion policies that are in line with public opinion. For progressives, it points to potentially useful rhetorical strategies for advancing their causes. As part of a May 2020 survey, Data for Progress polled registered voters about their opinions on the cause of unemployment, the cause of poverty, and the existing economic order."
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Wright, Kelsey; Winter, Ethan
2020-07
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Voters Strongly Oppose Cutting the Income of Millions of Americans, Support Extending Expanded Unemployment Insurance Benefits
From the Document: "The expanded unemployment benefits, passed as a part of 'The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security' (CARES) Act, gave out of work Americans an extra 600 dollars per week on top of their existing state unemployment benefits. The aim of this provision was to ensure that workers would maintain 100 percent of their pre-pandemic wages. This expanded benefit is set to expire on July 31, unless Congress and the White House extend it. In a poll at the end of June and into July, from Data for Progress, in collaboration with Groundwork Action, we tested support for extending this expanded UI benefit. We found strong support for renewal of expanded benefits, and an indication that voters would reward candidates for supporting its renewal."
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Swasey, Charlotte
2020-07
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Sheriff Discretion and Evictions
From the Executive Summary: "Sheriffs are the so-called 'tip of the spear' in eviction proceedings. While they do not instigate eviction proceedings or participate in court processes, sheriffs and their deputies in most states participate in the physical eviction process, which includes serving the writ that notifies tenants of their evictions, forcibly removing tenants from the property, and disposing of tenants' possessions, which can include either putting them on the curb or placing items in storage (generally for a fee). As states and municipalities lift eviction moratoriums imposed in the immediate wake of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019], sheriffs and their deputies will be the ones charged with physically evicting occupants who are unable to pay rent or their mortgage. But most voters think sheriffs should refuse to do so, at least during the current public health crisis. New polling from Data for Progress and The Justice Collaborative Institute shows that most voters oppose physically ejecting people from their homes, sometimes violently, during a pandemic."
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Pishko, Jessica
2020-07
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Eviction Cliff Years in the Making and the Need for Comprehensive Action
From the Executive Summary: "The challenges around eviction and housing affordability predate the pandemic, which means the response must also extend well beyond it to protect renters now and from ongoing housing instability going forward. While COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] is pushing tens of millions of people over the eviction cliff, the staggering lack of affordable housing, particularly for the lowest income households, has made that cliff especially high. Prior to COVID-19, nearly 90 percent of renters with income below $20,000 were housing cost burdened, as were nearly half of all renters. The pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the limitations of our affordable housing infrastructure and failures in the social safety net. In a new national poll conducted by Data for Progress, large majorities of voters across party affiliations expressed support for measures to prevent eviction, including rent forgiveness and city, state, and federal funding to compensate landlords and lenders."
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Howell, Kathryn; Reina, Vincent J.
2020-07
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National Investment Authority: Financing America's Future
From the Executive Summary: "The coronavirus pandemic has exposed deep structural flaws in the design and operation of the U.S. economic and political systems. At the same time, it presents a rare opportunity for innovative rethinking and remaking of both our private markets and our public institutions, so that they better serve the needs of the American people. A National Investment Authority (NIA) could be the institutional platform for pursuing this goal. The NIA would mobilize private capital to rebuild America's obsolete public infrastructure. It would do this by acting directly inside financial markets--through a lending subsidiary and a separate venture capital arm. The NIA would identify infrastructure projects important to the country's long-term stability and growth, and create mechanisms to align the individual incentives of private investors with the social imperatives of inclusive and sustainable long-term development. The NIA proposal draws on the long-standing American tradition of hybrid public-private finance. It is the 21st-century update of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), created by Herbert Hoover and later successfully used by Franklin Roosevelt to finance the nation's epic recovery from the Great Depression. During economic crises, such as the current one, the NIA would perform an additional function as the entity responsible for managing federal bailouts of private businesses."
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Omarova, Saule T.
2020-07
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Case for a Right to Counsel in Housing Court
From the Executive Summary: "The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically and ominously shifted the scale of the eviction crisis in the United States. Short of extensive, multipronged legislative action, estimates suggest that anywhere from 19 to 23 million renters (or 11 million renter households) are at risk of eviction between summer and fall 2020. Congress must take immediate action to address the eviction crisis by providing states and localities with the resources needed to ensure that individuals receive full legal representation in housing court. With no constitutionally guaranteed right to representation in U.S. civil courts, roughly 90% of tenants do not have lawyers, and face striking disadvantages as they navigate complex housing courts. Guaranteeing legal representation to individuals facing eviction is one way to address the most imminent need. There is strong bipartisan support for increasing legal protections to prevent evictions: Polling by Data for Progress shows that 60% of likely voters support increased funding for legal services to prevent evictions. And 59% of likely voters support, while only 19% oppose, a right to counsel in eviction cases."
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Michener, Jamila, 1981-
2020-07
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Case for a Community Health Corps: Responding to COVID19 with a Jobs Program to Build a New Infrastructure of Care
From the Introduction: "COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has caused intertwined health and economic crises: the virus threatens the health of millions of Americans, and the resulting economic harm is devastating, especially for working people and families. The burden of these crises has not fallen equally. Communities of color, especially Black and Latinx people, have borne the brunt of the deaths from COVID-19 and levels of unemployment now rivaling those experienced during the Great Depression. Despite asking Americans to make huge sacrifices and stay at home, the Trump Administration has failed to put in place or provide adequate support for essential measures, including testing and contact tracing, that we need to get the virus under control. [...] To address the threat we face today, we need a massive new program that addresses these twinned crises: a federally-funded, locally-implemented Community Health Corps that puts millions of Americans back to work in high-quality jobs stopping the spread of COVID-19. The urgency of this endeavor cannot be overstated. Unless we reset the American response to COVID-19, the return to normalcy in the United States may take years, not months."
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Kapczynski, Amy; Gonsalves, Gregg; Hansmann, Lisa
2020-07
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Concern Over the Coronavirus Pandemic Remains High; Voters Support Continued Economic Relief
From the Document: "On May 15, the United States House of Representatives passed the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act. The $3 trillion dollar relief package included another round of $1200 cash payments, aid to states and cities, Native American tribes, protection for essential workers, and other measures. It has since sat in the Senate with the Republican Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, refusing to bring the bill to the vote. House Democrats intended the HEROES Act to be a second relief bill that would have built upon and augmented the other major relief bill, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The law passed in March, 2020 included, among other components, two major provisions for individuals and households impacted by the economic crisis, a one time, means tested cash payments of $1200 and the addition of $600 per week to unemployment benefits. Both these measures have been successful in blunting the force of the economic crisis and research has been published that shows has capped the rise of poverty in the United States.As part of a June survey, Data for Progress sought to test support for both the HEROES and CARES Act, other relief proposals, as well as to measure voters' ongoing concern about the current twin economic and public health crises."
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Sheyman, Ilya; Winter, Ethan; Wright, Kelsey
2020-06
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Plan for a Clean Jumpstart to Rebuild America's Economy: Policy Proposals and Guidance
From the Introduction: "The global Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented economic crisis for the United States and the world. Leaders at each level of government must now confront this crisis with solutions scaled to the scope of the challenge, and the foresight to rebuild the economy for resilience and justice in the 21st century. [...] The Clean Jumpstart plan calls for major clean energy and infrastructure investments in stimulus legislation. This document provides a concrete and detailed plan with 11 policies and $320 billion in investment directly to state-run relief programs, giving states and cities greater access to federal financing, and investing in proven state-federal partnership programs for clean energy development and infrastructure. The plan further calls for 21 areas totalling over $1.2 trillion in immediate investment for federal programs that can help to stimulate and rebuild the economy right now."
Data for Progress
2020-05
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Clean Jumpstart to Rebuild America's Economy: Public Opinion Polling and Analysis
From the Executive Summary: "[1] Voters support a host of proposals that could constitute a green stimulus package, and all fourteen proposals we tested enjoyed considerable margins of support. [2] The most popular proposal we tested was directing federal aid to small, independent, and family farms rather than to agribusiness. Voters supported this policy by a margin of 66 percentage points. [3] Support for a green stimulus is also bipartisan. For example, Republicans support the creation of a Climate Conservation Corps by a margin of 34 points."
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Winter, Ethan; NoiseCat, Julian Brave
2020-05
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What Americans Think About Worker Power and Organization: Lessons from a New Survey
From the Document: "The coronavirus pandemic has led to an unprecedented public health and economic crisis. But it also represents a crisis of worker voice. As recent labor protests and strikes have made clear, many essential workers are being asked to return to jobs where they have little or no control over their pay and working conditions. Meatpackers, warehouse workers, food deliverers, grocery store clerks, and health care aides are all having to choose between unemployment or low-wage jobs that put themselves, their customers, and their families at risk of coronavirus infection. Yet the pandemic only exacerbated longstanding inequalities in workplace standards: well before the coronavirus outbreak, many American workers lacked the voice they wanted from their jobs, including input over pay, benefits, and work routines. To better understand how Americans are thinking about worker power and organization in the coronavirus era, this memo summarizes results from a new survey of 1,181 likely voters."
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Hertel-Fernandez, Alexander, 1986-
2020-05
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Automatic Stabilizers Are Popular with Voters
From the Executive Summary: "[1] By a two-to-one margin, voters support Congress implementing policies to automatically increase social spending when there is an increase in unemployment. [2] Sixty-three percent of voters strongly prefer assisting those in need even if it increases government debt. [3] Voters are supportive of the unemployment insurance system, supporting it by a 61-percentage-point margin."
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Winter, Ethan
2020-05
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Voters Support Native American Healthcare and Treaty Rights
From the Executive Summary: "[1] Voters support five proposals aimed at improving healthcare in Native American communities. The most popular was increasing funding for the Indian Health Service, which enjoyed a 54-percentage-point margin of support. [2] Voters support holding the federal government legally responsible for failing to uphold treaty obligations with Native American tribes, by a margin of 54 percentage points. [3] Support for all five of these proposals is bipartisan. For example, Republicans support targeting federal aid to hospitals and other essential services used by communities of color and Native American tribes, by a margin of 23 percentage points."
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NoiseCat, Julian Brave; Winter, Ethan
2020-05
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Clean Jumpstart to Rebuild State Economies: Voters Support Flexible Aid for Cities and States
From the Executive Summary: "The coronavirus crisis has taken a sledgehammer to state budgets. Business closures have plummeted tax revenue at the exact same moment that expenditures are spiking. [...] States urgently need aid from the federal government so that they can, among several things, keep essential services running in the midst of this pandemic and continue to invest in long-term goals like fighting climate change."
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Winter, Ethan; Ganz, Jason; NoiseCat, Julian Brave
2020-05
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Role of Overdose Prevention Sites in Coronavirus Response
From the Executive Summary: "The coronavirus pandemic has compounded North America's overdose crisis. [...] In responding to these overlapping public health emergencies, we must draw on the full spectrum of science-driven prevention measures. Such measures include rapid scale-up in access to critical overdose prevention medications, including methadone, buprenorphine, and the opioid antidote naloxone. But we must also expand the limited toolkit of overdose prevention efforts in the United States to include overdose prevention sites. Also known as 'supervised consumption facilities' or 'safe injection sites,' these are safe, supervised spaces to use previously-obtained drugs and access essential care and support services. With nearly 300 such facilities operating worldwide, overdose prevention sites have shown overwhelming evidence of their public health benefit and cost-effectiveness. Despite these well-documented successes, advocates have been unsuccessful at opening a legally-sanctioned overdose prevention site in the United States. In the context of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, such sites are especially vital because of their potential to prevent both overdose fatalities and the spread of infectious diseases. By handling numerous medical emergencies, they also promise to conserve health care system resources during a time when these resources are acutely scarce. As coronavirus is fundamentally redefining the status quo, the imperative for overdose prevention sites has never been more urgent. The American public agrees: In new polling, we found substantial bipartisan support for overdose prevention sites and other harm reduction solutions as part of the response to coronavirus."
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Johnson, Sterling; Beletsky, Leo
2020-05
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Need for a True Wealth Tax to Support Those Most in Need Due to the Coronavirus
From the Executive Summary: "It is time for a wealth tax. The medical and economic hardships produced by the coronavirus pandemic are falling most heavily on people who were already most disadvantaged. [...] A wealth tax to fund the relief effort gives meaning to shared sacrifice in the face of a universal threat. An extraordinary catastrophe, which afflicts the entire nation, should be paid for not out of income-flows that fund ordinary public policy in normal times, but rather by a one-time charge against the nation's accumulated stock of wealth. In other words, a wealth tax. This one-time wealth tax--of 5 percent levied on the richest 5 percent of American families--is good politics. It generates deep and wide support as shown by recent polling conducted by Data for Progress."
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Markovits, Daniel, 1969-
2020-05
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Americans Urgently Need More Aid to Alleviate the Economic Impact of Coronavirus: 19 Percent of Voters Have Already Missed Payment on a Regular Bill
From the Document: "As Congress debates another round of aid to Americans and businesses, many people are already struggling. The $1,200 checks provided in the CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] act are a positive step, but have failed to meaningfully change the financial situation of Americans who are struggling with an unprecedented financial pinch due to the coronavirus. A new poll from Data for Progress, conducted on May 4th 2020, finds that the financial situation of many Americans is extremely precarious, and that without additional aid we risk severe personal and economic harm. Americans are already having to make hard tradeoffs due to the economic situation, and they lack the cushion of savings or aid needed to survive the crisis. Nearly 20 percent of Americans report already skipping a bill, and a majority of voters anticipate having trouble covering basic costs within the next 3 months, 35 percent within one month. Among those who have already struggled to meet all obligations, the most commonly skipped is a utility bill (power, water, gas), followed by a rent or mortgage payment."
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Sheyman, Ilya; Swasey, Charlotte
2020-05
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Helping People Transition from Incarceration to Society During a Pandemic
From the Executive Summary: "In the best of times, the reentry process is extraordinarily difficult and emotionally taxing. Returning people are rarely truly free, as they typically must navigate a long list of onerous rules. [...] But these are not normal times. The coronavirus pandemic is drastically compounding the challenges of reentry. With the economy in freefall, some requirements of supervised release-- like obtaining housing and employment--are virtually unattainable. People reentering society are facing increased risk of homelessness, as halfway housing is unavailable and their own families may be reluctant to take them in if they come from facilities with COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] infections. Increased reliance on communication over the phone and the web for health and other services make the digital divide among returning people literally a matter of life and death. The bottom line is that systems designed to assist reentry--crude and insufficient as they were--are no match for these times. Prisons and jails must release more people to reduce the risk of infection behind bars, but this effort must be coupled with major scale-up in reentry services."
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Johnson, Sterling; Beletsky, Leo
2020-05
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HEROES Act and Progressive Response to the Coronavirus is Popular with Voters
From the Document: "On May 15, 2020, House Democrats passed an expansive, three trillion dollar economic relief and healthcare package. The bill, called the 'Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act' or HEROES act, would send additional aid to states and cities hardpressed by a decline in tax revenue and an upsurge in expenses associated with the crisis. In addition, another round of $1,200 dollar checks would be distributed. Republicans are largely opposed to the measure and President Trump has already threatened to veto the law. As part of a survey conducted from May 13 to May 15, 2020, of 1212 likely voters weighted to be representative of the national electorate, Data for Progress sought to test support for the HEROES Act as well as several other proposals currently being debated."
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McElwee, Sean; Winter, Ethan
2020-05
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Voters Support Raising the Minimum Wage for All Workers
From the Executive Summary: "The brutal economic fallout of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has not been felt equally. As is always true in times of economic crisis, it is the lowest-paid, least-protected workers who suffer most. As is especially true now, when the economic downturn is the result of orders to stay at home and close certain businesses, it is workers in service industries, many of whom rely on tips for most of their pay, who have borne the greatest impact. While many white collar jobs have shifted from the office to the home, service industry jobs--long plagued by poverty wages and poor working conditions to begin with--have simply disappeared. Unfortunately, initial research is showing that a majority of these workers are not able to access unemployment benefits because they received a subminimum wage plus tips that did not total enough income to qualify for benefits. In new polling, we found overwhelming bipartisan support for policies that will build a more fair economy for all workers, and that will level the playing field between service workers who depend heavily on tips and the wider workforce. These policies have already been gaining popularity at the city, state, and national level. Now, as a still-spreading pandemic puts a spotlight on the vulnerability of low-wage workers, American voters are rejecting a 'return to normal,' and instead demand policy change to reimagine a more fair economy that allows everyone to earn a liveable wage."
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Jayaraman, Sarumathi, 1975-; Barry, Kyle C.
2020-05
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New York Voters Support Providing Equal Pay Protections for All Workers
From the Executive Summary: "New polling reveals bipartisan support for policies that will build a fairer economy for all workers and level the playing field for service workers who depend heavily on tips and the wider workforce. These results show that New Yorkers support changing the status quo and do not want the economy to simply return to how it was pre-pandemic. Instead, officials and political actors should seize on these results to guarantee that we move toward a society in which all workers earn a liveable wage--one fair wage for all workers."
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Barry, Kyle C.; Jayaraman, Sarumathi, 1975-
2020-05
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Government Must Increase SNAP Benefits and Eligibility to Avoid a National Food Emergency
From the Executive Summary: "The coronavirus pandemic has created a global food security crisis that threatens to eclipse the disease itself. A recent survey by the Brookings Institution revealed unprecedented numbers of children going hungry in the United States. In late April, close to one in five households with young children did not have enough food for their kids, a rate three times higher than at any point during the 2008 recession. One of the government's band-aid solutions was to allot funds to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to buy food from farmers to give to food banks. This ad hoc measure has proven clumsy and inefficient. Millions of desperate, newly-unemployed people, from Egg Harbor, New Jersey, to Honolulu, Hawaii, wait in miles-long lines to receive food that is often inadequate, low-quality, and unhealthy. The only real solution to rampant food insecurity is a more generous and flexible food assistance program. Democrats reintroduced legislation in April that would expand the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as 'food stamps,' to stave off the hunger awaiting many families. Unlike food banks, SNAP uses existing infrastructures to get food to people quickly and effectively. As an anti-hunger program, SNAP works."
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Freeman, Andrea, (Associate Professor of Law)
2020-05
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Securing American Elections in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
From the Executive Summary: "[1] Voters support extending poll hours to ensure voting can proceed while respecting social distancing guidelines by a 77-12 percentage-point margin. [2] Voters support using vote-by-mail if 25 percent of the states have declared a state of emergency, backing it by a 71-17 percentage-point margin. [3] Voters support a reform measure stipulating states offer fifteen days of early in-person voting, no-excuse absentee voting, and the option to mail everyone a ballot during times of emergencies, backing this proposal by a 68- 17 percentage-point margin. [4] Support for many of these proposals is bipartisan. Self-identifying Republicans support, for example, extending polling hours by a 77-14 percentage-point margin and the use of vote-by-mail by a 60-27 percentage-point margin if 25 percent of states have emergency declarations in place."
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Winter, Ethan
2020-05
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Gig is Up: Coronavirus Pulls Back the Curtain on the Independent Contractor Epidemic
From the Executive Summary: "Beginning in the 1930s, the U.S. government established social safety net programs to protect American workers from sickness, unemployment, poverty, and unsafe working conditions. Over the years, however, those programs have been reduced and restricted, providing less and less actual protection. Now, as our nation's economy craters in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, federal and state officials scramble-- paper clips and duct tape in hand--to stand up the wreckage of these social insurance programs. Nursing home and meat packing workers continue to labor under conditions that threaten to infect them with coronavirus, while the federal government refuses to issue mandatory workplace safety standards to protect them. Millions of unemployment insurance claims suffocate under backlogs of applications at state agencies whose funding was long ago cut not just down to-- indeed into--the bone. As workers lose their jobs, they lose their health insurance coverage as well, just as their risk of incurring catastrophic medical expenses skyrockets. The coronavirus pandemic has also pulled back the curtain on an often unexplored dimension of the U.S. economy and its workforce: the level of unprotection the government affords the millions of people working in the 'gig' economy, which includes freelancers, independent contractors, and project-based 'platform' workers such as Uber and Lyft drivers."
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Krieger, Linda Hamilton, 1954-
2020-05
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Voters Support Green Bailouts of Industry
From the Executive Summary: "The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is jeopardizing the bottom lines of the cruise, airline, clean energy and fossil fuel industries, among others. Many companies in these sectors have already received federal funds as part of the recently passed CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act, while others are requesting bailouts in future bills. On Tuesday May 5, Rep. Nanette Barragán (CA) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (OR) introduced the ReWIND Act, [Resources for Workforce Investments, not Drilling Act] which would prevent the Trump Administration from using CARES Act funding to bail out the fossil fuel industry. Federal bailouts provide progressives with an opportunity to apply regulations, invest in research, and take an equity stake in these companies; key strategies to tackle the climate crisis as we restart the economy after the coronavirus pandemic. Rather than simply rescuing the economy by, at least in part, bailing out affected industries, we also have the opportunity to restructure it, setting us on course to reduce carbon emissions and other detriments to the environment."
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Winter, Ethan; NoiseCat, Julian Brave
2020-05
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Voters Approve Active Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Oppose Trump's Fed Chair-In-Waiting
From the Document: "The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the economy into recession. Unemployment has spiked and growth has stalled. In the meantime, nominees Judy Shelton and Chris Waller are being considered for positions on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. [...] The Fed, unlike fiscal authorities, is all but prohibited from helping households directly. Therefore, two key questions we test in this poll are: how much support there is for a more active fiscal policy? And how much support is there for new Federal Reserve powers that would allow direct support to households? [...] To test voters' attitudes towards the Fed, Data for Progress conducted two surveys. The first was of 2,427 likely voters and conducted from February 17 through February 18, 2020. The second ran from April 25, 2020 to April 26, 2020 and consisted of 1,741 likely voters. Questions ranged from specific policies the Fed could adopt, perceptions of the economy more generally, and opinions about proposals that Judy Shelton, a President Trump appointee to the Fed, has historically supported."
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Winter, Ethan; Bell, Sam
2020-05
