Here are some other highlights from DFP over the past week:
Voters want to rein in private equity
Everyone hates private equity — and new Data for Progress polling proves it. We find that voters widely support the provisions of the Stop Wall Street Looting Act, a bill re-introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren this week.
The bill includes reforms aimed at protecting workers, boosting transparency for consumers, and holding private equity investors accountable for predatory practices. Our poll shows that, by a +30-point margin, voters support the bill — including 60 percent of Independents and 35 percent of Republicans. Even when provided with arguments in opposition to the bill, the bill holds a +22-point margin of support.
Sen. Ed Markey for Data for Progress: “No Climate, No Deal.”
This week, Sen. Ed Markey guest-wrote for the Data for Progress blog! Sen. Markey held a press conference earlier this month emphasizing the importance of keeping climate provisions central to the Build Back Better bill. In his blog, he stresses the urgency of climate change and its implications for future generations, who proved to be a powerful voting bloc in his own primary against former Rep. Joe Kennedy — and cites new Data for Progress polling showing that the climate provisions in the reconciliation bill, even the establishment of a Civilian Climate Corps, are still widely popular with voters.
Sen. Markey says it best: “We will not compromise away the future of our young people and the climate they will inherit. We must keep climate central to the reconciliation package. I was proud to stand with young changemakers last week before the steps of the Capitol to make it clear to those who want to gut the President’s agenda. No climate, no deal.”
Read the full blog here.
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