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Supercharging Community Health Centers
Community health centers already serve one in ten US residents, but Medicaid cuts threaten to shrink them. Doubling their funding would make care free for low-income patients and keep the lights on during disasters.
5 Oct, 2026 • Grayson Flood
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Rerouting Funds from ICE to FEMA to Support Recovery, Not Terror
Climate disasters are getting costlier while the Trump administration guts disaster response. Congress should move money out of ICE and into FEMA to keep communities safe.
5 Oct, 2026 • Lorah Steichen
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Investing in Public Parks to Keep Us Cooler, Drier, and More Connected
Heat and flooding are becoming the norm. A $10 billion investment in public parks would cool neighborhoods, absorb stormwater, and bring communities together.
5 Oct, 2026 • Johanna Bozuwa
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Erasing Electricity Bill Debt to Provide Relief to Millions and Green Utilities
One in six households is behind on their power bills. A $20 billion federal program could erase that debt and push utilities to tackle the root causes of rising prices.
5 Oct, 2026 • Johanna Bozuwa
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Price-Controlling Prescription Drugs To Save People Billions on Healthcare
A warming climate is making people sicker as drug prices soar. Expanding government-negotiated drug prices to everyone could save households, businesses, and taxpayers hundreds of billions.
5 Oct, 2026 • Patrick Bigger
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Creating Transportation Independence through a Micromobility Tax Credit
Transportation insecurity makes everything else more expensive. Federal tax credits for bikes, ebikes, and other small vehicles would help households save money and cut emissions.
5 Oct, 2026 • Emmett Hopkins
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Expanding SNAP to Make Food a Human Right
Nearly 48 million people in the US are food insecure, and Congress just cut SNAP by 20 percent. It's time to restore and expand food assistance for everyone who needs it.
5 Oct, 2026 • Matt Haugen, Laurel Levin
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Building a Federal Cool Homes Program
Extreme heat is making homes dangerous while electricity bills soar. A $35 billion Cool Homes Program would get working families the cooling they need at little or no cost.
5 Oct, 2026 • Timi Koyejo
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The Black Box of Utility Capital Expenditure
How utilities are profiting off of AI expansion and climate disaster and saddling ratepayers with the bill
15 Sep, 2026 • Kristina Karlsson, Lucy Block
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AI First: How the Federal Government is Prioritizing AI Over People and Planet
The data center boom shows that world-altering infrastructure can rapidly expand when the interests of state and capital are aligned.
30 Jun, 2026 • Winston Yau, Matt Haugen, Jesse Goldstein, Dustin Mulvaney, Hannah Story Brown, Kenny Stancil, Sarah Knuth
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Fast and Free: How Better Buses Can Lower Costs and Cut Emissions Across the United States
Fast and free buses can lower costs for working people and get them where they need to go more quickly and comfortably while investing in high-quality public goods, cutting carbon pollution, and improving air quality.
28 May, 2026 • Emmett Hopkins, John Stehlin, Lucy Block
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Greening Public Housing to Lower Costs, Make Homes Healthier, and Spur Market Transformation
Public housing should be a central pillar of a progressive supply-side housing agenda as a tool to preserve deeply affordable housing, expand public development, and help spur market transformation for a green transition.
26 May, 2026 • Timi Koyejo, Isabel Peñaranda Currie, Daniel Aldana Cohen
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Are There Trade-offs Between Decarbonization in the Power Sector and Affordability?
Affordability and climate action are often pitted against one another, but public ownership and market controls can secure energy price stability and bring down the cost of living.
7 May, 2026 • Kristina Karlsson
In the News
jacobin.com ↗
Climate Action and Affordability Are Not Opposed
A renewable energy transition doesn’t have to mean higher prices for consumers. On the contrary: if managed well, it could actually offer lower energy prices.
7 May, 2026 • jacobin.com
In the News
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The Green New Deal has evolved. Now it’s all about ‘affordability.’
A new "working-class climate agenda" seeks to provide economic relief and tackle global warming at the same time.
21 Apr, 2026 • grist.org
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Climate and Community Institute Launches Working Class Climate Agenda
New York, NY: As the US faces a cost-of-living crisis and an escalating climate crisis, the need for bold solutions that can take on both in tandem is more urgent than ever.
15 Apr, 2026
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Stop Greed, Build Green: A Working Class Climate Strategy
The US is staring down deepening cost-of-living and climate crises. A framework that focuses on immediate relief, robust regulation, state capacity, and massive investment can move us towards a stable, green economy that works for everyone.
15 Apr, 2026 • Patrick Bigger, Johanna Bozuwa, Rithika Ramamurthy, Rakeen Mabud, Matt Haugen, Kristina Karlsson, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Winston Yau, Thea Riofrancos, Ruthy Gourevitch
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Stop Greed, Build Green: A Working Class Climate Agenda
It’s time for a fresh path forward. We are staring down an ever deepening climate crisis and a cost-of-living crisis that has been harming people for decades.
15 Apr, 2026 • Climate and Community Institute
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The Overview
The United States is staring down both a cost-of-living and a climate crisis. We need a working class climate agenda that brings down costs, rebuilds the government, and remakes the economy to actually deliver for working class people.
15 Apr, 2026 • Climate and Community Institute, Climate and Community Institute
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A New Era of Manufacturing for Public Good: The Case for the California Grid Manufacturing Initiative
California has a grid problem. The California Grid Manufacturing Initiative (AB 2516) would address accelerating climate change and the rising cost of living by proactively planning ahead to avert supply chain crunches that burden ratepayers and slow the green transition.
6 Apr, 2026 • climateandcommunity.org
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Affordability and Climate Action Don’t Have to be Opposites
Centrist pollsters keep treating climate like a siloed issue. Voters know better.
12 Feb, 2026 • substack.com
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Saying the Climate Part Out Loud
Last week’s election showed sweeping victories for Democrats across the country. Democrats won on platforms of affordability, fights against Trump cuts, and visions of a better future. While few high profile candidates ran on climate-first platforms, climate still played a big role not only in the context in which politicians ran but also in the proposals they put forward.
12 Nov, 2025 • substack.com
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The Growing Fight for Green Economic Populism
In Chicago and across the country, unions and progressive leaders are implementing policies to address the climate crisis while improving working people’s lives.
5 Aug, 2025 • inthesetimes.com
In the News
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Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many
The New York City mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani is focused on lowering the cost of living. It can serve as a blueprint for progressives seeking to embed climate action in real improvements for working peoples’ everyday lives.
6 Jun, 2025 • jacobin.com
In the News
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Biden Left Us With a ‘Prius Economy.’ It’s Time for Something Different.
In the lead-up to the November election, Donald Trump threatened to “terminate” President Biden’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, calling it the “Green New Scam.” Whether or not he kills the law, he is committed to slowing America’s transition from fossil fuels to clean energy — and few Americans seem concerned.
7 Jan, 2025 • nytimes.com
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