Issues
The Center for American Progress Action Fund is dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action. Building on the achievements of progressive pioneers such as Teddy Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr., our work addresses the most pressing 21st century challenges for our nation and our world.
Priorities
Topics
- Access to Affordable Early Care and Education
- Accreditation
- Affirmative Action
- Affordable Care Act
- Afghanistan
- Africa
- American Jobs Plan
- American Rescue Plan
- Anti-Hate
- Arctic and Global Warming
- Asia-Pacific
- Biden Administration
- Budget
- Build Back Better
- Census
- Child Care
- China
- Clean Power
- Clean Slate
- Climate Change
- College, Career, and Civic Readiness
- Common Core
- Competitiveness
- Congressional Review Act
- Consumer Protections
- Coronavirus
- Courts
- Courts and the Affordable Care Act
- COVID-19
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Justice Reform
- DACA
- Defense
- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
- Democracy
- Disability
- Domestic Policy
- DREAM Act
- Drug Policy
- Early Childhood
- Economic Development and Governance
- Economic Justice
- Economy
- Education
- Election 2014
- Election 2016
- Election 2018
- Election 2020
- Elections
- Employment Non-Discrimination Act
- Energy
- Energy and Environment
- Environment
- Environmental Justice
- Equal Pay Day
- Europe
- Every Student Succeeds Act
- Extreme Weather
- Faith and Equality
- Faith and Immigration
- Family Economic Security
- Family Recognition
- Federal Deficit
- Federal Housing Finance Agency
- Federal Legislation
- FHA and Financial Regulatory Agencies
- Finance
- Finance Reform
- Fiscal Cliff
- Food Insecurity
- Foreclosure Prevention
- Foreign Policy
- Foreign Policy and Security
- Government Reform
- Government Shutdown
- Government Transparency
- Guantanamo
- Gun Violence
- Gun Violence Prevention
- Health
- Health and Well-Being
- Health Care
- Higher Education
- Housing
- Human Rights
- Immigration
- Income Inequality
- India
- Infrastructure
- Innovation
- International Issues
- International Policy
- International Security
- International Women’s Day
- Investing in Care Is Essential Infrastructure
- Investment and Funding Equity for Public Education
- Iran
- Islamic State
- Islamophobia
- Israel
- Jobs
- Juneteenth
- Latin America
- LGBTQ Communities of Color
- LGBTQ Health
- LGBTQ Rights
- LGBTQ Youth
- Mass Incarceration
- Maternal and Infant Health
- Mental Health
- Mexico
- Middle East
- Middle-Class Economics
- Military Service
- Minimum Wage
- Municipal Legislation
- National Security
- Nondiscrimination Protections
- North Korea
- Ocean
- Paid Leave
- Pensions
- Performance Management
- Policing
- Politics and Elections
- Pope Francis
- Poverty
- Procurement
- Progressive Movement
- Public Education Opportunity Grants
- Public Lands
- Public Life
- Public Opinion
- Public School Choice
- Puerto Rico
- Quality of Early Care and Education
- Race and Criminal Justice
- Racial Equity
- Racial Equity and Justice
- Racial Equity and Community-Informed Policies
- Racial Justice
- Racial Wealth Gap
- Raising Working Standards
- Refugees
- Religion and Values
- Religious Liberty
- Rental Housing
- Reproductive Justice
- Reproductive Rights
- Retirement
- Retirement Security
- Roe v. Wade
- Russia
- Sectoral Bargaining
- Sequestration
- Small Business
- State and Local Policy
- State Legislation
- State of the Economy
- State of the Union
- State of the Union 2014
- State of the Union 2015
- State of the Union 2016
- State of the Union 2020
- Supreme Court
- Sustainable Finance
- Syria
- Tax Expenditures
- Taxes
- Teacher Evaluation
- Modernizing and Elevating the Teaching Profession
- Technology Policy
- Terrorism
- The War on Drugs
- Trade
- Trump Administration
- Turkey
- U.N. Climate Conference in Paris
- U.S.-India Energy and Climate Cooperation
- Ukraine
- Unions
- Veterans
- Violence
- Voting Rights
- Voting Rights Act
- Wages
- White Supremacy
- Women
- Women’s Economic Security
- Women’s Health and Rights
- Women’s Issues
- Women’s Leadership
- Work-Life Balance
- Worker Rights
- Workforce Development
State by State
Meaningful solutions and pathways to promote progressive policies occur at all levels of government. Often, local challenges require locally driven solutions that meet the need not only with innovative ideas but also with a deep understanding of the communities involved.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Puerto Rico