Recent Briefs
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill signing, Social Security Administration layoffs, and Department of Education elimination order are sparking the most backlash.
A majority of voters believe households making more than $400,000 should pay more in taxes.
After reading a brief description of the AmeriCorps program, voters across party lines overwhelmingly support it.
Voters see the value of obtaining a college education but are very concerned about the cost associated with a degree.
Although a central part of Trump’s education agenda involves closing the Department of Education, 53% of voters oppose this action.
Swing voters see Harris as more competent than Trump and as someone who is better at working across the aisle and fighting for people like them.
Recent Reports
Alaska voters, especially parents, support the majority caucus’s push for a broad increase in per-student funding.
Data for Progress and Student Borrower Protection Center consistently find broad support for loan cancellation, including among majorities of voters with no bachelor’s degrees and voters with no current student loan debt.
Student debt has increased dramatically in past decades and currently affects 45 million Americans, with about 4.4 million borrowers who have been making payments on student loans for more than twenty years.
A guide to the key pillars of the American Jobs Plan and how they compare with other progressive proposals.
For-profit colleges have a long and well documented history of consumer abuses, deception, and fraud.
In the space of a few years, the prospect of cancelling outstanding student loans has moved from the far-out fringe of higher education policy reforms to the center of the policy debate, and it could become actual executive branch policy in the very near future.