This week was the biggest week ever for Data for Progress. We rolled out a new website with our fellows program and a new report on how Medicaid Expansion affects turnout. We worked with Ayanna Pressley on her Justice Guarantee and worked with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to study the jobs and emissions reduction from their Green New Deal for Public Housing. The Atlantic used our work to show how the Green New Deal is winning. In The Hill, we showed that aggressive action to take on big pharma has broad public support. And to top it off, we showed what a Democratic President could do through executive actions to fight climate change through the executive branch, and that an executive order agenda has broad support.
Most importantly, we changed the conversation about what’s possible through a Green New Deal.
Covering the new AOC and Sanders Green New Deal legislation, the Washington Post said “The bill would cost between $119 billion and $172 billion over the next decade, according to estimates developed by Data for Progress, a progressive think tank. It would create up to 240,723 jobs a year, the group estimated.” We’re making the media cover the Green New Deal on our terms, not letting Fox News drive the narrative.
Our work was covered in Vox, Mother Jones, Huffpost and a wide range of other publications.
Using our data, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the Public Housing Green New Deal Act for the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the nation. Data for Progress led policy and public opinion research to develop this legislation. We want to expand our capacity to do this work, and would love your support so that we can continue similar research moving forward. Even better, if you would become a sustaining donor, we can we can have a sustainable resource base to help progressive politicians change the narrative about their legislation. We work hard to deliver narrative change at a low cost.
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