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Research Roundup: The Need for Health Care Reform, Protecting Labor Agreements in NY, and Responding to Right-Wing Media Stories
Jun 04, 2009

The Need for Health Care Reform:

  • More Bang for the Health Care Buck
  • Efficiency and Quality: The Role of Controlling Health Care Cost Growth in Health Care Reform
  • Health Reform: The Cost of Failure

Project Labor Agreements in New York State: In the Public Interest

Where Have All of Maryland’s Millionaires Gone? Nowhere — They’re Probably Just Not Millionaires Anymore 

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Research Roundup: Policies to Revive the Economy, Soaring Insurance Costs, Insurance Exchanges, and Much More
May 28, 2009
Reports on policies to revive the economy, soaring insurance costs, insurance exchanges, talking about human rights in policy debates, majority-signup procedures for public employees, and online learning for low-skill adults.
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Research Roundup: The Economic Crisis: Racial Disparities and Trade Dislocations, Closing Corporate Loopholes, and Much More
May 21, 2009

The Economic Crisis: Racial Disparities and Trade Dislocations

  • Sounding the Alarm: Update on the Economic Downturn
  • Race and Recession: How Inequity Rigged the Economy and How to Change the Rules 
  • Trade Adjustment Assistance: New Opportunities for Ohio Workers

Closing Corporate Loopholes

Ensuring Effective Teachers for All Students

Parents' Health Care and Paid Sick Leave

  • Making Parents' Health Care a Priority 
  • Contagion Nation: A Comparison of Paid Sick Day Policies in 22 Countries 

Global Warming and Green Jobs

  • Global Warming’s Six Americas 
  • Green Jobs/Green Homes NY: Expanding Home Energy Efficiency and Creating Good Jobs in a Clean-Energy Economy
  • Saving Dollars, Saving Democracy: Cost Savings for Local Election Officials through Voter Registration Modernization 

Electoral Competition and Low Contribution Limits 

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Research Roundup: The Political Ideology of the Millenials, Religious Groups Want Government to Address Climate Change & More
May 14, 2009
  • Public opinion in support of progressive policies
  • New reports on the role of higher education in promoting economic growth
  • Health care coverage for children and need for health care costs transparency
  • New resources on low-wage and immigrant worker rights from the National Employment Law Project
  • Money in State Politics
  • Green Jobs in Maine
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Research Roundup: No Paid Leave for Moms, The State and Local Drag on the Stimulus, Some New Important Reports on Health Care, U
May 07, 2009

No Paid Leave for New Moms  

The State and Local Drag on the Stimulus

More Americans Losing Health Insurance Every Day

How Effectively Does the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Help Laid-Off Workers and States Cope with Health Care Costs?

Health Insurance Coverage in Massachusetts:  Estimates from the 2008 Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey

Healthy Competition: How to Structure Public Health Insurance Plan Choice to Ensure Risk- Sharing, Cost Control and Quality Improvement

Improving Access to Language Services in Health Care: A Look at National and State Efforts

Health Insurance Coverage of New York State’s Home Care Aides

Is New York Prepared to Care? A Comprehensive Coverage Solution for Home Care

US Electorate Most Diverse in History

Saving Dollars, Saving Democracy - Cost Savings for Local Elections Officials Through Voter Registration Modernization

Public Attitudes on State Election Administration, Goals, and Reforms

The Youth Vote in 2008 

Stimulating Excellence: Unleashing the Power of Innovation in Education

Picturing Smart Growth

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Research Roundup: Identifying Obstacles that Hinder Voting, GDP Growth Report, Gender Based Wage Discrimination, New Health Care
Apr 30, 2009
Access to Democracy: Identifying Obstacles Hindering the Right to Vote 

Unusually Bad and Getting Worse 

Why Aren’t We There Yet?

New Health Care Reform Strategies:

Sales Tax Decline in Late 2008 Was the Worst in 50 Years: Early Data for 2009 Show Further, Sharp Drop in Tax Revenues for Most States

Realigning Resources for District Transformation 

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New analysis on income inequality & taxing the wealthy, transit & clean energy, life for immigrants in America & much more
Apr 23, 2009
  • New analysis on income inequality and taxing the wealthy
  • New transit and clean energy reports
  • Life for immigrants in America
  • New health care reports
  • Effects of race and changing gender on poverty and unemployment
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Research Roundup: The Failure of Inadequate Health Insurance for Families - and What Needs to be Done
Apr 16, 2009
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