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Happy IRAnniversary!

She’s beauty and she’s grace, she’s popular in all 50 states. That’s right: she’s the Inflation Reduction Act! Last year, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, a landmark piece of legislation that lowered healthcare costs, confronted climate change, and created jobs for millions of Americans.

To mark this momentous paper anniversary, Data for Progress surveyed ([link removed]) national voters to assess how support for key climate provisions of the IRA has shifted since the midterm elections. And no surprise, we find that support for the IRA’s key climate provisions remains strong across partisan lines. For example, 73% of national voters support ramping up the production of American-made clean energy technologies, including 84% of Democrats, 68% of Independents, and 67% of Republicans. Slay!

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Another crucial slay to mention: Republican support for climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act has increased in the past year. Clean energy tax credits for businesses saw an 8 percent increase in support (from 49% to 57%), and Republican support for the IRA’s fair wage and Made in America standards also rose from 69% to 75%. A bipartisan queen!

So on the IRA’s first birthday, let’s celebrate how much it has accomplished already. Keep up the good work, kid! You’re helping to save the planet one clean energy tax credit at a time.

Read the full brief and polling here ([link removed]) .

Here are some other highlights from DFP this week:

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If you have somehow caught up on every show that’s been “on your list” for the last 10 years and now you have nothing new on the horizon to watch, don’t blame yourself for spending your summer in front of the TV. That’s completely acceptable behavior. Blame the Hollywood studios for ruining everything that’s nice in this world. Especially Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and his corporate jet and his $39 million pay package. ([link removed]) Shout out to the Boston University students ([link removed]) for all of their heroic booing.

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has been on strike for over 100 days now, and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA – don’t you love a good acronym?) has been on strike for over a month. Considering that writers and actors are the backbone of the entertainment industry, their demands are pretty reasonable: fair compensation, stronger workers’ rights, and greater employment protections. Yet, studio executives are not only dragging their feet but are “willing to let writers lose their homes ([link removed]) ” before they end the strike. Aren’t millionaires great?!?

Data for Progress finds ([link removed]) voters overwhelmingly support the demands from the WGA and SAG-AFTRA. Eighty-seven percent of voters agree that actors and writers should receive the appropriate compensation for reruns and streaming services and 85% agree that actors have the right to their own images, voice, and likeness (ya know, so they aren’t unceremoniously edited into shows without their consent a la SeinfeldVision ([link removed]) ).

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Yes, it’s absolutely a major bummer that actors like Tyler James Williams won’t be gracing our screens this fall. And sure, we will absolutely be up until 4:00 am falling down a Reddit-thread rabbit hole on The Bear, stressing over when we’ll get a season 3. But despite the depressive state that we’ll enter without Stranger Things, we find 86% of voters still support the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes even if they cause delays on movies and TV shows.

It shouldn’t be a hot take to say that writers and actors deserve to be paid fairly. Hollywood executives couldn’t write The Sopranos and they couldn’t pull off a performance that makes viewers sympathize with the Roy Siblings. So, why are they benefiting the most from these incredible works of art? Voters want writers and actors to be paid fairly, and they don’t want to see ChatGPT writing the next HBO (sorry, Max) drama. Quite frankly, AI just isn’t that clever anyway (at least not yet).

Read the full brief and polling here ([link removed]) .

Stop letting Jared Kushner and Friends into Harvard.

After the Supreme Court (read: the conservative majority on the Supreme Court) eliminated affirmative action, people were quick to point out the actual policy that keeps college admissions unfair: legacy admissions. Legacy admissions is a practice in which universities are more likely to accept the children of alumni or donors. It’s how the Jared Kushners of the world get into prestigious universities – when your parents donate $2.5 million ([link removed]) so Harvard can build a shiny new building with your name on it, it helps get your foot in the door!

Data for Progress finds ([link removed]) 65% of voters believe that children of alumni and major donors to a university often have an unfair advantage when applying to that specific college or university. This includes 69% Democrats, 67% Independents, and 58% Republicans.

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In order to ensure that qualified students have a shot at getting into universities over Chad and his trust fund, Democrats in Congress have introduced the Fair College Admissions for Students Act. Other lawmakers at the state and federal levels have made similar proposals to end legacy admissions. We find that 68% of voters support this type of legislation to ban legacy admissions, including 72% of Democrats and 66% of both Republicans and Independents.

It’s time to put an end to legacy admissions. If nepo babies want a shot at getting into their parent’s alma mater, they need to struggle through the Common App with everyone else. There’s a universe where Donald Trump couldn’t scam his way into Wharton ([link removed]) , and we would like to live there.

Read the full brief and polling here ([link removed]) .

DFP In The News

Variety: Poll Shows 67% of Americans Surveyed Support the WGA and SAG-AFTRA Strikes ([link removed])
The Chronicle of Higher Education:Will Lawmakers Ban Legacy Admissions? The Public Wants Them To. ([link removed])
Politico:Abortion rights activists set their sights on Arizona after Ohio win - POLITICO ([link removed])
Roll Call:Ohio voters reject push to hinder abortion rights amendment ([link removed])
Politico:Abortion rights won big in Ohio. Here’s why it wasn’t particularly close. ([link removed])
The Guardian:US utilities oppose Biden efforts to make gas power plants cleaner ([link removed])

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