State and Local Policymakers Can Raise Standards and Build Power for Workers
States and cities can advance these 21 ideas in 2026 to build worker power, support unionized workers, and uphold workforce stability and standards.
States and cities can advance these 21 ideas in 2026 to build worker power, support unionized workers, and uphold workforce stability and standards.
Explore how the law’s historic cuts will affect uninsurance where you live.
Trump’s planned Alaska meeting with Putin risks becoming a “surrender summit” that pressures Ukraine into abandoning NATO aspirations and accepting imposed neutrality, rewarding Russian aggression.
This series of fact sheets provides insights into how the OBBBA and the administration’s policies will increase the costs of health care, food, energy, and borrowing in each state in the near future.
Across the country, nearly 60 electric and gas utilities are hiking or trying to hike utility bills this year, totaling nearly $38.3 billion for 56.7 million electric customers and $3.5 billion for 26 million natural gas customers; if the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passes, these bills will spike even higher.
Proposed cuts to vital programs would threaten Alaska families’ budgets and access to necessities.
Republican plans to slash Medicaid funding and let the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits expire will increase insurance costs for millions of Americans.
Retaliatory tariffs against the United States from China, the European Union, and Canada are likely to punish critical export industries in every state.
States across the country are passing new and expanded laws protecting workers’ right to time off to address needs in relation to violence.
The clean energy supply chain spurred by U.S. investment has created jobs and helped to lower electricity costs; repealing these investments midstream would increase electricity prices for households and businesses in nearly every state.
The Republican House budget resolution would cost congressional districts an average of $2 billion each and could eliminate coverage for 15.9 million people.
States save and invest fossil fuel revenue to build wealth and pay for essential services that benefit current and future generations—and Congress should take note when designing a federal sovereign wealth fund.