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Seattle Scales Back Tax in Face of Amazon’s Revolt, but Tensions Linger

After intense lobbying by local businesses and a bold threat by Amazon to curtail development in its hometown, the Seattle City Council on Monday approved a smaller and more limited tax on big companies than originally envisioned.
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  • Economic Justice

50+ Local Elected Officials Stand with Seattle

More than 50 elected officials across the country, including in Amazon HQ2 shortlist cities, signed a letter encouraging ..
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  • Economic Justice

Eight Local Progress members featured in The Nation this week!

All across the country, Local Progress members are fighting the dark money takeover of our democracy.
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A powerful, inspiring weekend: Recap of the 3rd Local Progress NY convening

This year’s inspiring keynote address was given by national leader and activist Linda Sarsour ..
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Local Progress Reacts To Trump’s Infrastructure Plan

Local Progress is a network of progressive local elected officials from around the country united by our shared commitment..
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Join us in Minneapolis July 12-14 for the 2018 Local Progress Convening!

Coming off an exciting 2017 election night, progressives across the country are stepping up and running for office because our ideas are popular ..
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  • Public Safety

Local Progress members, CPD leaders gather to advance racial justice initiatives

To those of you who attended the Summit and to all of you working hard to advance this work in your communities, thank you so much.
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  • Immigrant Justice

Local Progress Responds To Ruling Blocking SB4

Today’s ruling showed that, when cities come together, there are few limits to what local lawmakers can achieve.
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Local Progress Statement on Charlottesville

We stand with Wes and the city of Charlottesville against hatred, violence and racism.
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  • Immigrant Justice

After Sanctuary Cities Convening, 100+ Local Lawmakers Pledge To Uphold And Expand Sanctuary Policies

NEW YORK – On the heels of the country’s first-ever convening of municipal elected officials devoted to improving sanctuary city policies..
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  • Immigrant Justice

American Leaders Against Hate and Anti-Muslim Bigotry Campaign

Hate crimes have spiked drastically since the 2016 presidential election. Xenophobic and racist rhetoric..
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Meet the lefty club behind a blitz of new laws in cities around the country

A new group for liberal city council members is pushing the limits of what municipalities can do for their residents.
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At Local Progress, we seek to make the aspirational pragmatic by showing how government can be a tool to create just and equitable outcomes and reshaping peoples’ understanding of governing from an institution to a collective responsibility. Here are some highlights of our media coverage:

Eduardo Martinez speaks during a press conference at a homeless encampment in Richmond, California, on September 15, 2022. (Jane Tyska / Digital First Media / East Bay Times via Getty Images)
  • Home Rule

Richmond Progressive Alliance’s Lessons for Local Organizers

It doesn’t often make national headlines, but the city of Richmond, California, has been home to a successful progressive political reform project in recent years. Here are ten lessons for other municipal reformers from the Richmond Progressive Alliance.
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A construction worker shelters from the sun during a water break. Local government ordinances mandating such breaks have been preempted in some states.(Al Diaz/TNS)
  • Economic Justice

When States and Localities Disagree On Worker Protections, What’s the Way Forward?

Local governments across the country are enacting policies that protect workers. Unfortunately, state governments have increasingly acted to preempt these efforts. That's why some local leaders are finding ways to work around such barriers, demonstrating how local power can influence policy even constrained by state preemption.
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Porchá Perry demonstrates with other workers in Lansing, Michigan, in favor of bills restoring local control to pass workforce and labor policies on Sept.13, 2023. A new report finds growing union organizing across the country has triggered an anti-labor legislative response in some states, but cities and counties are increasingly pushing back. (Photo courtesy of SEIU Local 1)
  • Economic Justice

States are pushing back with anti-labor laws as union popularity grows, policy experts say

A new report co-authored by New York University Wagner Labor Initiative and Local Progress Impact Lab details how localities are fighting back against state anti-labor legislation.
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The Chevron Richmond Refinery is seen in 2023. In the summer of 2012, a massive blaze broke out at the refinery. | Eric Risberg/AP
  • Climate Justice

California city’s $550m deal with Chevron could be a national model for environmentalists

California cities have a new playbook for beating Big Oil. In mid-August, Chevron caved in the face of a local initiative that would have taxed every barrel it produced within Richmond’s city limits at its century-old, 3,000-acre plant just north of San Francisco.
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  • Economic Justice

NEW REPORT: How Local Government Can Stand Up for Workers When States Try to Stand in Their Way

This new report for Labor Day 2024 highlights ways local elected officials can advance workers rights even when facing both hostile state preemption and federal labor law preemption.
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  • Public Safety

How Localities Use Community Responder Programs to Keep People Safe

This new video from Local Progress and Local Progress Impact Lab focuses on three specific localities: Durham, Oakland, and Albuquerque to explain what community responder programs are, how they work, and why hundreds of localities are starting to adopt them.
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  • Housing

After Grants Pass: organizing to house all our neighbors

In response to the Supreme Court's cruel decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson, we will continue to organize for housing for all.
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  • Housing

Local Progress Condemns Cruel Supreme Court Decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson, Local Progress put out the following statement.
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  • Climate Justice, Economic Justice, Home Rule

180+ State and Local Elected Officials Urge Congress to Reject the EATS Act

LP and the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) released letters calling on Congress to protect local and state governments ability to create policy that is responsive to the issues their own communities face in the agricultural industry. 
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