To better prepare rural students for postsecondary opportunities, federal and state policymakers must increase rural access to high-quality, rigorous coursework.

Jun 17 The Destruction of Disaster Relief: The Trump Administration’s Attack on Emergency Disaster Preparedness and Relief Aid. Join the Center for American Progress for the next in a series of ...

Join us for a conversation with Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as part of CAP’s “What’s Next: Conversations on the Path Forward” series ...

When NATO leaders gather this week in The Hague for the alliance’s 76th summit, the mood will be far from celebratory. With ...

In America, gunshots rattle communities every 11 minutes.Amid this cycle of tragedy, community violence intervention (CVI) programs are addressing the root causes of violence to end cycles before ...

This year is the 60th anniversary of the Head Start program. Since 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson established the program as part of his “war on poverty,” it has provided comprehensive ...

A new state-by-state analysis estimates that 48 million women would lose guaranteed access to no-cost emergency contraception if the Project 2025 agenda were implemented.

Budget reconciliation (or simply “reconciliation”) is a special congressional procedure that allows for easier passage of tax and spending changes—as long as the changes adhere to certain rules.

The 5th Circuit is arguably the most right-wing federal appellate court in the country and has achieved outsize power in shaping this Supreme Court’s disruptive jurisprudence. 8 Although the 5th ...

The Trump administration appears to be sending the U.S. economy into a period of slower growth and higher inflation.In the past few weeks, the administration enacted steep tariffs on a wide range ...

Food is a fundamental human right, much like air and water. Yet hunger and food insecurity are widespread in the United States. In 2020, almost 14 million households—10.5 percent of the ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters is seen on February 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C., following Elon Musk’s announcement that he and U.S. President Donald Trump ...