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Hoping for a Kamala Harris presidency, progressives are focusing on pragmatic economic ideas like raising the minimum wage and child care funding over sky-high ambitions like the Green New Deal.
Lexipol, a Texas-based public safety training and consulting company, has opposed efforts to reform use of force standards. Lexipol declines to include common reform proposals in its manuals, such as a use-of-force continuum, de-escalation policies, or rules prohibiting chokeholds or shooting into cars, and advocates against measures it ...
One example of progressive reform was the rise of the city manager system in which paid, professional engineers ran the day-to-day affairs of city governments under guidelines established by elected city councils. Many cities created municipal "reference bureaus" which did expert surveys of government departments looking for waste and inefficiency.
For example, Biden has proposed a 39.6% tax rate on long-term capital gains for households making $1 million or more. In New Hampshire last week, Harris proposed a similar tax, but at 28% .
Kamala Harris, as she would recall many years later, was once a little girl riding a bus across town to integrate a nearly all-white public school in California. Joe Biden's selection of Harris as ...
The progressive movement emerged in the 1890s and included intellectual reformers typified by sociologist Lester Frank Ward and economist Richard T. Ely. [65] They transformed Victorian liberalism, retaining its commitment to civil liberties and individual rights while casting off its advocacy of laissez-faire economics.
Self-described Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders fended off criticisms that Vice President Kamala Harris has veered too far to the left in the past, calling her changing policy positions ...
The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) is an American conservative think tank based in Austin, Texas. [2] The organization was co-founded in 1989 by James R. Leininger and Fritz S. Steiger, who sought intellectual support for his education reform ideas, including public school vouchers . [ 3 ]