Tag: Center for American Progress

5 Things U.S. Policymakers Must Understand About China-Africa Relations (Jordan Link, Center for American Progress)

The eighth convening of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), likely to be held late this year, marks more than 20 years of high-level...

Creating a Domestic U.S. Supply Chain for Clean Energy Technology (Mike Williams and Trevor Sutton, Center for American Progress)

The global clean energy industry is at an inflection point. The trajectory of generating and deploying clean energy has risen globally, in spite of the...

The Forbes 400 Pay Lower Tax Rates Than Many Ordinary Americans (Seth Hanlon and Nick Buffie, Center for American Progress)

A study by White House economists released on September 23 found that the 400 wealthiest U.S. families paid an average income tax rate of just 8.2...

The SEC’s Regulatory Role in the Digital Asset Markets (Todd Phillips, Center for American Progress)

The market capitalization of digital assets—for example, cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens—was valued at $1.95 trillion in mid-August 2021; just a month later, it was...

The Freedom to Vote Act Would Counteract State Laws That Undermine Elections (Danielle Root, Michael Sozan, Alex Tausanovitch, Center for American Progress)

The U.S. Senate recently took another step toward passing transformative voting rights and election reform legislation, with Senate Democrats introducing the Freedom to Vote Act on...

The Climate Needs a Balanced Judiciary (Maggie Jo Buchanan, Center for American Progress)

As the world continues to grapple with the climate crisis, the U.S. federal courts are set to play a key role in efforts to...

Investing in Home Care and Early Childhood Educators Has Outsize Impacts on Employment (Marina Zhavoronkova and Rose Khattar, Center for American Progress)

Home care workers and early childhood educators are a critical—and sizable—part of the American labor market. Almost 3.2 million Americans—overwhelmingly women, and disproportionately women...