ProGov21 Policy Library

Type Model Law

Year -

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source -

Policy Areas Economic Justice

This model ordinance requires every “covered employer,” or contractor that enters into a city contract where the annual value of payments is $25,000 or more, to pay their employees no less than a living wage. Beginning at $10.55 per hour, each year the living wage shall be adjusted...

2021 Prenatal-to-3 State Policy Roadmap

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level State

State(s) All States

Source Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center

Policy Areas Children & Families

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...

Frequently Asked Questions for San Francisco Paid Parental Leave Ordinance (PPLO)

Type Ordinance

Year 2017

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source City of San Francisco

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Children & Families

The San Francisco Paid Parental Leave Ordinance (SF PPLO) requires employers who have employees working in San Francisco to provide Supplemental Compensation to employees who are receiving California Paid Family Leave (PFL) benefits to bond with a new child, so that the employees...

Breastfeeding & Racial Equity

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source ChangeLab Solutions

Policy Areas Health, Children & Families

Racial disparities in access to money, time, and professional and social support deeply impact breastfeeding outcomes and contribute to disparities in breastfeeding success. This infographic outlines barriers to breastfeeding faced by women of color, along with their potential solutions....

What Does Good Child Care Reform Look Like?

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town, State

State(s) All States

Source Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Policy Areas Children & Families, Economic Justice, Education

Achieving high-quality early care and education for all children will require meaningful public policy interventions and investments. Effective childcare reform must tackle the current system's main problems: lack of resources for parents to stay home with very young children, lack...

Assessing & Addressing Preemption: A Toolkit for Local Policy Campaigns

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source ChangeLab Solutions

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Health

Local policy is more likely to generate lasting change if it responds to the needs and priorities of local residents and is grounded in their lived experiences. However, some state legislatures are using the legal doctrine of preemption to block local policy innovations. This report...

Preempting Progress in the Heartland: State Lawmakers in the Midwest Prevent Shared Prosperity and Racial, Gender, and Immigrant Justice by Interfering in Local Policymaking

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source EARN

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance

Across the midwest, conservative state lawmakers have increasingly used preemption—a tactic whereby a higher level of government limits or eliminates the power of a lower-level government to regulate an issue—to reduce the policy tools and power available to local lawmakers. This...

2017 Cook County Ordinance 16-4229 Earned Sick Leave

Type Ordinance

Year 2017

Level County

State(s) Illinois

Source Cook County Board

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Health

Under this ordinance, any covered employee who works at least 80 hours for an employer within any 120-day period shall be eligible for earned sick leave. For every 40 hours worked after a covered employee's earned sick leave begins to accrue, they shall accrue one hour of earned sick...

Why Do We Focus on the Prenatal-to-3 Age Period? Understanding the Importance of the Earliest years

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level State, National

State(s) All States

Source Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center

Policy Areas Health, Children & Families

The first three years of life are the most sensitive for a child’s developing brain and body. Exposure to chronic stressors during these years can lead to physical, cognitive, and emotional health problems in the future that can be costly for families and society to navigate. This...

Voters Express Broad Support for Paid Family & Medical Leave

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2018

Level County, City or Town

State(s) All States

Source SiX Action

Policy Areas Health, Housing, Public Safety, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Children & Families

Polling conducted in advance of the 2018 legislative session in key battleground states showed broad support among likely voters for policies that provide working families with economic security. In particular, the polling found high levels of support for expanded healthcare coverage...

Rigging the Gig: How Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash’s Ballot Initiative Would Put Corporations Above the Law and Steal Wages, Benefits, and Protections from California Workers

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level State

State(s) California

Source Partnership for Working Families

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

In California, Uber, Lyft, Instacart, DoorDash, and Postmates workers are all classified as employees under California law entitled to the same benefits and protections enjoyed by all California employees. However, these companies are funding a ballot initiative – Proposition 22 or...

Raising Wage & Benefit Standards

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice

This guide differentiates between the various types of paid leave (i.e. sick, medical, family, and parental leave) and highlights their respective benefits. It discusses options cities can take to enact local paid leave legislation, such as enacting ordinances that expand coverage...

Relief, Recovery and Reimagination: A Federal Policy Agenda to Meet this Moment in Rural and Small Town America

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, State

State(s) All States

Source People's Action

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Democracy & Governance, Community Development, Public Safety, Health

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, politicians have chosen to sacrifice rural communities for the profits of corporate monopolies. In response, this report provides a vision of Relief, Recovery, and Reimagination necessary to positively transform rural communities and small towns....

Race, Sex, and Social Equality Roadmap

Type Roadmap

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source ProGov21

Policy Areas Children & Families, Civil Rights, Economic Justice

Centuries of political, legal, and economic discrimination against women and people of color have entrenched inequality in the United States. ProGov21's Race, Sex, and Social Equality Roadmap outlines steps local governments can take to address the root causes of racial and gender...

California’s Hero Labor Law: The Private Attorneys General Act Fights Wage Theft and Recovers Millions from Lawbreaking Corporations

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level State

State(s) California

Source Partnership for Working Families

Policy Areas Economic Justice

Though California has enacted numerous laws that help workers recover stolen wages, access paid leave from work, and enforce safe and humane working conditions, such legislation fails to deliver economic security to working Californians unless accompanied by strong enforcement mechanisms....

Towards Gender Liberation

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level State

State(s) All States

Source The Democracy Collaborative

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health, Children & Families

This paper focuses on gender-based oppression since it is both one of the fundamental characteristics of the current system and one that must be eliminated from any desirable alternative future system. The first section attempts to provide working definitions for key terms and a brief...

A Transit Agenda for the COVID-19 Emergency

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Transit Center

Policy Areas Public Safety, Health, Transportation & Mobility

The effects of COVID-19 pose serious challenges for safe and reliable transit service. This report summarizes current epidemiological knowledge about COVID-19 and transit, and explores how city dwellers feel about utilizing public transportation again. Using this information, the...

For All of Us, By All of Us: Challenging State Interference to Advance Gender and Racial Justice

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town, State

State(s) Colorado, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Tennessee

Source Partnership for Working Families

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance

Corporations and their political allies deploy state preemption to stop local progress and block the abilities of local governments to act on the values and needs of their communities. This report uses data from Colorado, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee to demonstrate how communities,...

2009 Los Angeles Century Boulevard Ordinance 178432 Establishing Minimum Wage and Paid Leave Requirements

Type Ordinance

Year 2007

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Council of the City of Los Angeles

Policy Areas Economic Justice

This ordinance requires hotel employers to pay hotel workers in Los Angeles's Airport Hospitality Enhancement Zone at least $9.39 per hour with health benefits or $10.64 per hour without health benefits. These rates shall be adjusted annually to correspond with adjustments to the...

Costs and Benefits of Paid Sick Leave: Reviewing the Research

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2011

Level City or Town

State(s) All States, California, Colorado, District of Columbia

Source Bell Policy Center

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health

This policy brief examines the effects of Denver's 2011 Initiative 300 which enables employees to acquire sick time hours depending on the size of their business and how many hours they work. This brief examines the experiences of San Francisco and Washington D.C. in implementing...

2011 Seattle Ordinance 123698 Paid Safe and Sick Leave

Type Ordinance

Year 2011

Level City or Town

State(s) Washington

Source City of Seattle

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health, Children & Families, Public Safety

This ordinance requires employers to provide a certain number of hours annually, depending on business size, to employees for sick leave. It also requires employers to grant safe leave for issues related to domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking....

2014 Chicago Ordinance 02014-1511 Requiring Employers to Provide Paid Sick Leave

Type Ordinance

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) Illinois

Source Chicago City Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health

This ordinance requires all employers in the City of Chicago to offer employees the opportunity to earn and accumulate sick time. The ordinance requires employers to provide one hour of sick time for each 30 hours worked, with a cap of 40 accumulated hours for small employers and...

2014 Jersey City Ordinance Requiring Employers to Provide Paid Sick Leave

Type Act or Session Law

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) New Jersey

Source Jersey City Municipal Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Health

This ordinance states that businesses operating in Jersey City with 10 or more employees must provide up to five paid sick days to their employees each year. ...

2014 Newark Ordinance 2010 Requiring Employers to Provide Paid Sick and Family Leave

Type Ordinance

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) New Jersey

Source Newark City Council

Policy Areas Health

This ordinance requires employers to provide a minimum level of paid sick time, including time for care for family members. The purpose of this ordinance is to protect the public’s health in Newark by reducing the risk of and spread of contagion, and to promote preventative health...

Balancing Work and Family: The Economic Effects of Earned Paid Sick Time

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) Massachusetts

Source MassBudget

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Children & Families, Health

This brief examines challenges faced by working families and the role that earned paid sick time can play in helping families meet those challenges. It finds that paid sick time allows families to meet basic needs, increases long-term employment, and prevents unnecessary health expenses....

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