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Policymakers must protect tenants from records that can effectively banish people from civil society.

By prioritizing incarcerated people and correctional officers in COVID-19 vaccine plans, we will better be able to stem the virus, protect our most vulnerable, and our community at large.

New polling shows substantial support for a number of measures that will dramatically reduce the county jail’s population amid the surging threat posed by COVID-19.

A new poll shows substantial support among Los Angeles County voters for a number of measures to reduce the jail population.

While Governor Gavin Newsom prepares to name California’s next attorney general, a new statewide poll shows overwhelming, bipartisan support for an attorney general who is independent from the police and prioritizes police accountability. 

Detaining people who pose no danger to the public in crowded, unsanitary jails and prisons not only endangers those who are incarcerated, it also subjects staff and the broader community to needless risk as new, more virulent strains of COVID-19 make their way into the United States. 

New Jersey voters broadly support their senators recommending more civil rights lawyers and public defenders to serve on the federal judicial bench.

Voters in New York and California—two states with large numbers of federal judicial vacancies—overwhelmingly support their senators recommending more civil rights lawyers and public defenders for the federal bench. 

A new national poll shows that a majority of American voters support supplementing the existing social safety net with targeted, direct cash payments at the local level.

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting financial crisis have exposed the fragility and gaps within the American caregiving model.

To make real progress on immigration, the president must address not just four years of bad policy, but the last 40 years.

Today, more than 44 million Americans hold a total of about $1.6 trillion in student debt, creating significant financial hardship that had reached crisis proportions even before the pandemic triggered massive job losses. 

Consumer protection laws can pick up where the Affordable Care Act left off.

In a survey of a selection of frontline districts, including many that flipped for Republicans in 2020, majorities of voters expressed support for progressive reforms on healthcare, the environment, and policing. In other words, the very policies blamed for electoral defeats in frontline districts in fact have majority support among those same voters.

New polling from Data for Progress and The Lab, a policy vertical of The Appeal, shows that voters across party lines overwhelmingly support direct payments of $2,000.

There is also a growing bipartisan consensus that we send too many people to prison for too long, and clemency is one tool that can be used to limit the carceral state. Unfortunately, the process by which clemency petitions are evaluated is fundamentally broken.

Voters of all stripes—Democrats, Republicans, and independents—support a range of policies by overwhelming margins.

The old-school default of keeping people who are presumed innocent in jail unless they can afford bail has always been unfair, destructive, and dangerous, and that is especially true amid a pandemic that poses a unique threat to incarcerated people.

New polling shows that Americans overwhelmingly support the creation of a CCC-like program to tackle today’s economic, social, and environmental crises.