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The Center for American Progress is a think tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action.
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Center for American Progress Smart immigration strategies will increase tax revenue, help American businesses, and give a boost to all workers.
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Melissa Boteach of the Half in Ten Campaign and Jim Weill of the Food
Research and Action Center call on Congress and the President to act by
investing in nutrition assistance and job creation.
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Volunteer Ken Newman sorts donated food at the Cherry Street Food Bank, run by Northwest Harvest, near downtown Seattle, a week before many Americans will sit down to Thanksgiving dinner.
Center for American Progress Colin Cookman and Brian Katulis outline India’s strategic importance to the United States on global and regional issues as India’s prime minister arrives for the first state visit hosted by President Obama.
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President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meet at the G-20 summit in London on April 2, 2009. Singh is visiting Washington this week for a four-day state visit to discuss a range of issues with the Obama administration.
Center for American Progress The public favors more investment in preventing diseases and other health problems.
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A blizzard of health care polling is being produced as we get closer and closer to final resolution of the issue in Congress. Much of this polling tends to be duplicative and doesn’t really tell us anything new. ...
Center for American Progress Policy attention should focus on job creation to ensure that the recent improvements are not short lived.
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Lingering weakness in the labor market is threatening the fledgling economic recovery. Millions of jobs have been lost and unemployment has risen to the highest level in almost three decades. The labor ...
Center for American Progress Obama’s “spending binge” should be put in context of what he inherited from the previous administration.
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President George W. Bush meets with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in O'Neill's office on March 7, 2001, to discuss Bush's tax cuts. When the cuts sunset at the end of 2010, the previous administration will have left the government holding the bag for well over $2 trillion in lost revenue.
Center for American Progress If you’re considering new furniture these tips will help you green your space.
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If you’re looking for new furniture, it may be hard to know where to start, especially if you consider that some types of furniture are the result of questionable environmental production, and some may even affect your health. ...
Center for American Progress A fact sheet looks at several different elements of the growing clean energy economy in the United States.
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Workers unload a trailer filled with pieces of a windmill in Aurora, CO. The number of clean-energy jobs in the United States grew 9.1 percent between 1997 and 2008, while jobs overall only grew by 3.7 percent.
Center for American Progress Ruy Teixeira shows the public isn’t listening to conservative misinformation about health care reform.
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Conservatives are putting up a last ditch effort to stop health care reform. They’re doing their level best to scare the public, telling them that passing health care reform will take the country down the road to socialism and ruin the economy, among other things. ...
Center for American Progress Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks at CAP on why we need comprehensive immigration reform.
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The pressing need for immigration reform cannot be met by “a single initiative or regulation,” said Center for American Progress CEO and President John Podesta at an event today headlined by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. ...
Center for American Progress Eric Alterman wonders when The Washington Post will finally address the conflict of interest with its media critic Howard Kurtz.
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Howard Kurtz, left, shakes hands with Bob Schieffer as they arrive for Walter Cronkite's funeral on July 23, 2009. Kurtz is employed by The Washington Post and CNN, but has frequently failed to disclose this.
Center for American Progress The closure of Guantanamo is within the reach of the Obama administration, but it still must take certain steps to get the detainee population down to zero.
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The process for closing Guantanamo has not gone as smoothly as the Obama administration had hoped. It was always going to be difficult, but some unforeseen obstacles were thrown in its path, and the new ...
Center for American Progress A state-by-state report card on educational innovation from CAP, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Frederick M. Hess of the American Enterprise Institute.
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Interactive | Report | Findings | Recommendations | State Profiles | Methodology & Data | FAQs | Help | 2007 Report Card
Center for American Progress The public supports the Obama administration’s new attitude toward international law
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In the bad old days of the Bush administration, our nation’s leaders did not seem too interested in abiding by international law and, in fact, seemed to take some pride in asserting our right to ignore it. ...
Center for American Progress There is some good news in today’s employment report, writes Heather Boushey, but the prospects for American workers remain grim.
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Unemployment rose to 10.2 percent in October 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The economy shed 190,000 jobs in October for a total of 7.3 million jobs lost since the recession began in December 2007. ...
