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Issue Reports
Civil Rights, Liberties, and Justice
- The Erosion of Rights: Declining Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Bush Administration
- The ID Divide: Addressing the Challenges of Identification and Authentication in American Society
Economy
- Access Denied: Low-Income and Minority Families Face More Credit Constraints and Higher Borrowing Costs
- An Oldie but Goodie: The Importance of Social Security as Source of Retirement Income
- Ignoring Productivity at Our Peril
- From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half
- From Boom to Bust: Helping Families Prepare for the Rise in Subprime Mortgage Foreclosures
- Building 401(k) Wealth One Percent at a Time: Fees Chip Away at People’s Retirement Nest Eggs
- Risks Rise for Middle Class: Economic Security Continues to Fall
- The Economic Costs of Poverty in the United States: Subsequent Effects on Children of Growing Up Poor
- The End of the Great American Housing Boom
- Safety Sells: The Case for Incentive-Based Credit Card Disclosure System
- The Case for Reviving the Doha Trade Round
Education
- Ensuring Equal Opportunity in Public Education: How Local School District Funding Practices Hurt Disadvantaged Students and What Federal Policy Can Do About It
- Leaders and Laggards: A State-By-State Report Card on Educational Effectiveness
- Expanding Learning Time Through Supplemental Educational Services
- Teacher Compensation in Charter and Private Schools
- The Massachusetts Expanding Learning Time to Support Student Success Initiative
- Teacher Pay Reforms: The Political Implications of Recent Research
- Addressing America’s Dropout Challenge: State Efforts to Boost Graduation Rates Require Federal Support
Energy & the Environment
- Job Opportunities for the Green Economy: A State-by-State Picture of Occupations that Gain from Green Investments
- Investing in a Green Economy: Using Cap-and-Trade Auction Revenue to Help American Families and Spur Clean Energy Innovation
- Progressive Growth: Transforming America’s Economy through Clean Energy, Innovation, and Opportunity
- Global Warming and the Future of Coal: The Path to Carbon Capture and Storage
- Fueling a New Farm Economy: Creating Incentives for Biofuels in Agriculture and Trade Policy
- Energizing Rural America: Local Ownership of Renewable Energy Production is Key
- American Energy: The Renewable Path to Energy Security
- Energy Security in the 21st Century: A New National Strategy
Foreign Policy
- Enough report: Let's Make a Deal: Leverage Needed in Northern Uganda Peace Talks
- Enough report: How to Protect Civilians in Eastern Chad
- Enough report: Peacekeeping for Protection and Peace in Darfur
- The Answer to the Lord’s Resistance Army
- Rethinking U.S.-Colombia: The US and Colombia Can Break Cycles of Violence and Repression Policy
- Strategic Reset: Reclaiming Control of US Security in the Middle East
- Contain and Engage: A New Strategy for Resolving the Nuclear Crisis with Iran
Health Care
- Caring About Long-Term Care: An Ethical Framework for Caregiving
- Immigrants in the US Health Care System: Five Myths that Misinform the American Public
- Navigating American Health Care: How Information Technology Can Foster Health Care Improvement
- Opportunity Costs and Opportunities Lost: Businesses Speak Out about the US Health Care System
- Divided We Fail: The Need for National Stem Cell Funding
- The SCHIP Shortfall Crisis: Ramifications for Minority Children
- Community Health Interventions: Prevention’s Role in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
- Promoting Prevention and Preventing Costs: A New Wellness Trust for the United States
- The Human Dimension: Strengthening the Prevention Workforce
- Joining Hands: Partnerships Between Physicians and the Community in the Delivery of Preventive Care
Media & Culture
- The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio
- Local Media Diversity Matters: Measure Media Diversity According to Democratic Values, Not Market Values
National Security
- Caught Off Guard: The Link Between Our National Security and Our National Guard
- Keeping Bombs Off Planes: Securing Air Cargo, Aviation’s Soft Underbelly
- Toxic Trains and the Terrorist Threat
- Katrina and the Common Good
- No Mere Oversight: Congressional Oversight of Intelligence is Broken
- The Terrorism Index
Open Government
- Governing by the Numbers: The Promise of Data-Driven Policymaking in the Information Age
- The Citistat Model: How Data Driven Government Can Increase Efficiency and Effectiveness