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Deportation vs. Legalization in Nevada

Read other state reports in this series here. Debates about the economic and fiscal benefits and drawbacks of immigrants typically oversimplify the role that immigrants play in our economy. When one...

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Nevada Gun Violence

Nevada’s gun death rates are among the worst in the nation In Nevada, a person is killed with a gun every 20 hours. Nevada is among the deadliest states for gun violence. From 2005 to 2014, Nevada had...

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Fast Facts: Economic Security for Nevada Families

For a more recent version of this fact sheet, see: “State Fact Sheets: Economic Security for Women and Families” by the Women’s Initiative This fact sheet was originally published on October 5, 2015,...

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Violent Words, Violent Crimes

The United States has been undergoing a dramatic demographic shift over the past 30 years, with exponential growth in communities of color, particularly in African American and Latino communities. One...

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Recent State Wins for Working Families You Might Have Missed

As the national debate about developing policies to meet the needs of working families escalates—with proposals from both sides of the aisle addressing different types of paid leave—progressive...

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Recent State Actions on Women’s Health You May Have Missed

The Trump administration and the anti-choice majority in Congress are relentlessly attacking women’s health and rights. These attacks have come in many forms—from multiple attempts to repeal the...

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RELEASE: New Poll Finds Broad, Bipartisan Support in Nevada for Boosting...

Carson City, Nevada — Today, the Center for American Progress released a new report detailing the findings of a public opinion survey on the state of child care in Nevada and voters’ priorities for...

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Fast Facts: Economic Security for Women and Families in Nevada

Click here to view other state fact sheets in this series. Lawmakers in Nevada must pave the way to economic security for women and families by ensuring that state policies guarantee economic equality...

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6 New Governors Who Will Lead the Way on Climate Action

Climate action was on the ballot in yesterday’s election. By electing candidates who ran on platforms to protect the planet for future generations, voters picked the environment as a winning issue. In...

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Oil and Gas Development Is Creating a Problem for the Arid West

A review of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s most recent oil and gas leasing data along with a new map of water scarcity in the American West shows that the Trump administration’s efforts to...

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The Impacts of Climate Change and the Trump Administration’s...

Just in the past three years, the Trump administration has attempted to roll back at least 95 environmental rules and regulations to the detriment of the environment and Americans’ public health....

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6 Policies To Reduce Gun Violence in Nevada

Nevada has been the site of both tremendous tragedy and significant progress when it comes to gun violence. The state was the location of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, when a gunman...

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Nevada Supports—and Needs—the American Rescue Plan

Nevada’s economy is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant economic recession. More than a year has passed since the first coronavirus case was detected in the United States, and...

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