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Voters Have Moved in Favor of DC and Puerto Rico Statehood
While abolishing the Electoral College has received well-deserved attention, the Senate is an even more biased institution. As we showed in a DFP analysis last year, while the Electoral College created a 1.5 percent bias towards Republicans in 2016, the Senate created double the bias — 3 percent — towards the GOP.

Granting statehood to Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico would counteract the partisan and racial imbalances of the Senate. When we initially polled this issue in January of 2019, we found 53 percent support for making Puerto Rico a state, but a far lower 35 percent support for making D.C. a state. Now, our new polling shows that support for D.C. statehood is catching up — its support has grown to 43 percent, driven by a major leap in the number of Democrats favoring the idea.



Support for Puerto Rican statehood has slightly increased, moving from 53 percent last year to 54 percent today.


Voters Support the THRIVE Agenda
On Thursday, hundreds of grassroots organizations — ranging from unions to racial justice and environmental groups — teamed up with 82 members of Congress to launch the THRIVE agenda. It’s a bold new plan to renew the economy with a specific focus on environmental sustainability and racial justice. DFP helped out by providing research to inform the campaign and task force’s work.

In new research, we polled voters in 11 key swing states and found that a majority of voters support every single plank of the agenda. This includes: 

• 66 percent support for fully decarbonizing the electricity grid by 2035.

• 63 percent support for strengthening relations and recognizing the sovereignty of Native American Nations.

• 51 percent support for giving all workers access to unions, and penalizing employers if they try to stop union organizing.
   

Voters Want DeJoy to Resign
If one thing is consistent during these turbulent times, it’s that voters really don’t like Trump’s crusade against the Postal Service. In new polling shared by Forbes, we show that 56 percent of voters want Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to resign or be removed from office.

And in a new piece on our blog, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney shared new polling showing that her bill — the Delivering for America Act, which would reverse changes made to the USPS since January 1st and prevent the GOP from damaging its service standards — has bipartisan support.




Best Practices to Support Farmworkers During Coronavirus
Farmworkers across the U.S. have been uniquely susceptible to getting infected by the coronavirus. This is largely due to crowded living and transportation conditions, lack of hospital care, lack of testing and other public-health resources, and difficulty socially distancing in the fields.

In a new memo, released on Wednesday in collaboration with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the Fair Food Standards Council, and Partners in Health, we lay out urgent best practices for local officials and employers to support farmworkers and their families. For local officials, these include providing free testing and PPE to farmworkers and offering local healthcare options through local clinics, medical schools, or hospitals. For employers, these include providing sick pay and ensuring social distancing during trainings, meal breaks, and other group gatherings.

To little surprise, we find that supporting farmworkers is a clear political winner. 70 percent of voters think the government should target aid specifically to these workers.




Data Bytes

• Biden is Looking Good in Texas: In a new poll of Texas, we find Joe Biden in a strong position, with a 48 percent to 45 percent edge over Donald Trump. Democratic Senate candidate MJ Hegar has a steeper challenge, however: our polls show him down by 6 points to Republican incumbent John Cornyn.
   
• Voters Support Environmental Justice for All: The Green New Deal is highly popular — and that popularity remains strong when voters are told that the programs would be targeted to communities of color.
  
  In a new blog post, we show that the Environmental Justice for All Act and the Climate Equity Act both have net support of at least 25 percentage points, including a majority of both Democrats and independents. We also find support for placing an “equity score” on environmental legislation to gauge its impact on communities of color.
  
  
   

From The Blog
Voters Want to Protect U.S. Postal Service Standards
Voters Have Moved in Favor of DC and Puerto Rico Statehood
Voters Support Environmental Justice for All


Memos
Memo: Voters Support the Fair Food Program and Coronavirus Relief for Farmworkers
Guidebook: Best Practices to Support Farmworkers During Coronavirus
Memo: Voters Support the THRIVE Agenda
Memo: The Case for a Federal Job Guarantee Program


Media Hits
DC Statehood Gets Increasing Support from Democrats @Washingtonian
Behind the scenes of Generation Green New Deal @GreenBiz
Opinion: Stop the revolving door — Americans don’t support fossil fuel industry leaders running climate policy @Houston Chronicle
Democrats are running on the most progressive police reform agenda in modern American history @Vox


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