The Center for American Progress’ signature event, now celebrating its 15th year, where CAP convenes the big thinkers and doers on the center-left for a day of not only identifying the problems facing ...

From travel to cookouts, costs are rising due to the Trump administration’s wide-ranging tariffs and its war of choice with ...

As Congress considers reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank of the United States, this moment should be leveraged to improve ...

Trevor Higgins, senior vice president of the Energy and Environment department at the Center for American Progress, filed written testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s ...

Some of the country’s leading elected officials, policy experts, journalists, and thinkers came together to share their ideas on the path forward.

CAP’s plan would save households more than $900 in energy costs over four years while building a better energy system that ...

Rising gas and fertilizer prices tied to the Trump administration’s war in Iran are driving up costs for rural families, farmers, and consumers across the country, according to a new Center for ...

Rising electricity costs are forcing families to make difficult choices and reshaping how voters think about energy affordability. Spring 2026 polling from the Center for American Progress and Blue ...

Since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020, 1 the United States has seen a proliferation of cases, record-breaking unemployment, and economic ...

On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law—enacting the largest-ever cuts to basic needs programs in U.S. history in order to ...

The Trump administration’s failure to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent economic fallout has exacerbated both crises in the United States.