SACRAMENTO –  Today California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the COMPETE Act (AB 1776), legislation authored by Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry that updates California’s antitrus...

States are expanding public childcare through broader subsidies, investments in the childcare workforce, coordinated governance, capital funding, and community engagement. This brief examines Connecti...

Executive Summary Childcare is a critical public need, but the market meant to provide it is broken. The United States is the only economically advanced nation that doesn’t recognize childcare as a pu...

Access to affordable medicine is a human right. Yet across the United States, drug prices remain out of reach for millions,  with the heaviest burdens falling on Black, Latino, Indigenous, and other c...

Infant care is incredibly expensive to provide. But one solution could reduce the burden on both states and parents.

Executive Summary Childcare is a critical public need, but the market meant to provide it is broken. The United States is the only economically advanced nation that doesn’t recognize childcare as a pu...

Mike Koncza on "The Julie Mason Show"

Mike Koncza on "The Julie Mason Show"

“It seems like every other week President Trump rolls out a new cash promise because he knows cash is popular with the American people. Now, he’s floating cash as a ploy because his actions have only ...

“The Trump administration is using strained Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) resources to uphold its vision of what a family should look like. The CCDF was designed to help parents afford care while...

Executive Summary Over the past decade, more than 250 guaranteed income pilots, programs that provide people with regular cash with no restrictions on how they use it, have run across 40 states and th...

A common question about cash programs is how they impact work. This memo examines how guaranteed income affects employment by reviewing employment outcomes from over 40 cash pilots across the United S...

Among the numbers used to demonstrate the need for a basic income today, one sticks to the ribs like no other: almost half of Americans…

In late 2024, Zohran Mamdani, then a member of New York State’s assembly, posted a video of himself talking directly to the camera in a grocery store aisle. “Grocery prices are out of control. The cos...

Childcare. Healthcare. Groceries. Gas. Every essential costs more since the pandemic.

Childcare. Healthcare. Groceries. Gas. Every essential costs more since the pandemic.

Childcare. Healthcare. Groceries. Gas. Every essential costs more since the pandemic.

Childcare. Healthcare. Groceries. Gas. Every essential costs more since the pandemic.

Executive Summary Over the past decade, more than 250 guaranteed income pilots, programs that provide people with regular cash with no restrictions on how they use it, have run across 40 states and th...

Grocery access should be treated like any other essential public service.