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Carbon Pricing & Equity
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level County
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Health, Community Development, Public Spaces, Democracy & Governance
Carbon pricing is one major set of market mechanisms that states can use to promote the advancement of clean energy adoption. Whether a state or region chooses to implement a cap-and-trade, carbon tax, or some other mechanism, it is critical that issues of equity and justice for the...
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College Affordability
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level County
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Education, Housing, Public Safety, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families
In the modern economy, a college education or technical degree is more important than ever - higher education greatly increases a person's access to high-paying jobs and future earnings. Implementing free tuition or free college at public institutions at the state level can increase...
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Week of Action: Fighting for Families Messaging and Policy Guide
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2017
Level County
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Education, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Children & Families, Community Development, Public Spaces, Housing, Public Safety, Health, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy
Outdated workplace policies have failed to keep pace with the demands on today's workforce, limiting our economic growth....
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Automatic Voter Registration
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level County
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance
Our registration and voting system generally works well, but in the age of computers, modernizing our outdated, paper-based voter registration system is just common sense. A system of automatic voter registration (AVR) is a small but important change that would replace our current...
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Bail Reform
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level County, City or Town
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Public Safety, Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This report examines issues with the cash bail system and proposes policy solutions for reforming pretrial detention and release practices. It highlights that many individuals are detained in local jails pretrial, despite being legally innocent, particularly affecting low-income individuals...
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Wage Theft
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level County
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Children & Families
Wage theft is a catchall term for a range of situations in which an employer fails to pay an employee, and it can take many forms - from employers paying employees less than the minimum wage or failing to pay overtime to withholding tips, not providing employees with their final paycheck,...
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In-State Tuition for All
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level County
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Education, Economic Justice, Civil Rights
There are 2.1 million undocumented college-age individuals in the country who have overcome significant obstacles in order to pursue their education and the American dream. Given some encouragement and support, these students, often called Dreamers, could reach their potential and...
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Immigration Fights
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Children & Families, Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance
The estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. face massive challenges under President Donald Trump's administration. Increased anti-immigrant rhetoric, deportations carried out through U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Department of Justice's threats...
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Preventing and Mitigating Police-Involved Violence
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety, Public Safety, Civil Rights
Alarming rates of police brutality and abuse of power persist across U.S. cities and states, with 987 people shot and killed by law enforcement officers in 2017 alone. Victims of police-involved violence are disproportionately people of color, and a quarter of victims struggle with...
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Addressing Bump Stocks
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level County
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Housing, Public Safety
Bump stocks and other similar devices are marketed to shooters seeking to convert their weapon to simulate the rapid, continuous fire of an automatic firearm while using a semi-automatic gun. In October 2017, a gunman in Las Vegas used multiple bump stock devices to convert semi-automatic...
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Paid Sick Days
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level County
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Health, Housing, Public Safety, Children & Families, Health, Economic Justice, Civil Rights
More than 40 million Americans still do not have access to paid sick time, and these numbers are concentrated among the lowest-wage workers - 80 percent of whom lack access. The health impacts on employees and on the workplace can be jarring; those without paid sick days are 1.5 times...
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Paid Family & Medical Leave
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level County
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Housing, Public Safety, Children & Families, Health, Economic Justice, Civil Rights
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) was a momentous piece of federal legislation that secured the right of working Americans to take up to 12 unpaid weeks off of work for the birth of their child, to care for their newborn, to care for a loved one with a serious illness,...
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Clean Energy
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level County, City or Town
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Health, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Community Development, Public Spaces, Democracy & Governance
A majority of Americans across party lines support action to address climate change and promote clean energy. Unfortunately, the Trump administration has taken a page from the establishment playbook and set up its federal agencies to do the bidding of polluters by taking us back to...
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Predatory Debt Traps
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level County
State(s) All States
Source State Innovation Exchange
Policy Areas Education, Finance & Procurement, Children & Families, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Community Development, Public Spaces, Housing, Public Safety, Children & Families
In the United States, the average annual percentage rate paid on a payday loan is 391%. But payday loans are only one of the many mechanisms that impose triple-digit interest rates on low-income and vulnerable communities. High-cost loans that collateralize a car title, fixed pensions,...
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