ProGov21 Policy Library

This paper evaluates the large number of progressive policies the city of San Francisco has enacted in the last decade. This includes increased labor protections, enhanced union rights, local earned income tax credits, and a universal health access program....

A child’s first three years of life is the most rapid and sensitive period of development, and it sets the foundation for long-term health and wellbeing. All children deserve the opportunity to be born healthy and raised in nurturing, stimulating, stable, and secure care environments...

This report analyzes health and income data from the U.S. Census Bureau. It finds that 2.2. million L.A. County residents lack health insurance; L.A. County is characterized by extremely high levels of income inequality; real median income for L.A. County residents has remained stagnant;...

Though the United States has a large and highly developed pharmaceutical industry, it operates on an extractive model that contributes to inequality and increasingly produces drug shortages, inefficiency, lagging innovation, misinformation and misuse of medications, and the world’s...

The United States’ current healthcare system is driven by profit and governed by insurance and pharmaceutical companies, rather than by the people. This platform calls for improved Medicare for all, which will shift power from corporations and the one percent (insurance & drug corporations),...

California recently received approval for the Low Income Health Program (LIHP). County-based LIHPs improve access to health services by offering comprehensive benefits to low-income adults who are currently ineligible for Medi-Cal coverage. This brief assesses the projected economic...