How States Are Expanding Apprenticeship
This issue brief contains a correction. As postsecondary education or training has become more essential for economic success, policymakers have begun to give apprenticeship a closer look. At the...
View ArticleHead Start in Rural America
See also: “A Compass for Families: Head Start in Rural America” by Rasheed Malik and Leila Schochet Head Start is a federally funded preschool program that brings comprehensive services to hundreds of...
View ArticleRELEASE: New Poll Finds Broad, Bipartisan Support in Minnesota for Boosting...
St. Paul, Minn. — Today, the Center for American Progress released a new report detailing the findings of a public opinion survey on the state of child care in Minnesota and voters’ priorities for...
View ArticleNewly Elected Governors Support Expanding Early Childhood Programs
While many states are still finalizing the vote counts, it is clear that Americans elected 20 new governors and re-elected 16 incumbent governors last night. Many of these elected leaders ran on a...
View ArticleBoundary Waters at Risk
In early April, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) faced off against Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue during a hearing of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related...
View ArticleFast Facts: Economic Security for Women and Families in Minnesota
Click here to view other state fact sheets in this series. Authors’ note: CAP uses “Black” and “African American” interchangeably throughout many of our products. We chose to capitalize “Black” in...
View ArticleThe Impacts of Climate Change and the Trump Administration’s...
Just in the past three years, the Trump administration has attempted to roll back at least 95 environmental rules and regulations to the detriment of the environment and Americans’ public health....
View ArticleState Climate Leadership Is Coming to the Nation’s Capital in 2021
More so than any election in history, climate action was on the ballot on November 3, and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won with a bold vision for climate action—putting forward an ambitious agenda,...
View Article5 Discussions That Shaped the Justice Reform Movement in 2020
During summer 2020, the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and too many other Black Americans sparked a national dialogue around the failings of the U.S. criminal justice system. People...
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