Center for American Progress

and our system of governing. Lobbying is a controversial topic. However, there are many reasons the profession is necessary. Most Americans do not have the time and resources to lobby for the issues they care about most. They cannot travel to Washington, D.C. or their state capitol to lobby legislatures and political leaders. Instead, lobbyists represent these Americans. Professional lobbyists also provide organized representation of interests. There are hundreds of interests. If every citizen…

“To be an American is to be someone with access to tremendous opportunities and freedom. Our nation is founded on a pluralistic belief that together we are better and stronger than apart,” says Shakila Ahmad, the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati (ICGC)’s president and board chair. She adds, “It doesn’t mean our nation is perfect. There are struggles we must overcome, but we’re making progress…there is no better place in the world.” Born in Pakistan, at age three, her family moved to…

According to the Brookings Institute, in a report completed by Ron Haskins, Richard Merman, and Isabel Sawhill, from October 2012, the literacy rates of students in the United States are far lower than any other industrialized country in the world. The American education system has been severely lacking in the ability to teach students throughout primary and secondary schools across the country. Literacy skills displayed by students have been inadequate to date. Our students are not learning the…

Outcomes: The American Lung Association of the Mountain Pacific (ALA) serves Alaska, Hawai’i, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming (ALA, 2016). Although the programs in each state varies based on the needs of the community, the Mountain Pacific states are dedicated to the same mission of improving lung health and preventing lung disease (ALA, 2016). Community engagement is an important component of the ALA’s marketing. On the individual level, the LUNG FORCE heroes allow…

Throughout history, African Americans were oppressed, dehumanized, and treated unfairly. Jim Crow Laws was a system of segregation that prohibited African Americans from being equal to white Americans. It made the lives of African Americans much more rigorous. To combat the Jim Crow segregation, African Americans had to established their own identity and organized themselves by joining unions, educating themselves, and involving in political issues. The Jim Crow system, each laws was put in…

to evoke a child’s development and create greater learning gains. The CDCLR is a prime example of a quality education center that has highly qualified staff in an atmosphere that provides instruments and tools for exploration and growth of the…

animals habitats for buildings, houses, energy and power.”The Chinese are invading animal habitats through industrial progress to fit their human needs. Due to humans advancing in industrial progress and finding different energy sources, it is leading to humans taking over the endangered animals homes. The Chinese demands are energy, paper and minerals through industrial progress it has been destroying the wildlife. In big cities like Beijing the pollution is unbearable. The filth from pollution…

newly formed suburbs. As seen in the (video) the suburbs set a standard of living for the wealthy and middle class. The ideal look of of the “white” american, What they should buy ,Where they should live was an idea set still in the suburbs. To be happy and a true american you must conform to it…

In their investigation of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 on This American Life entitled “House Rules” from November of 2013, Nancy Updike and Nikole Hannah-Jones outline the history of racial segregation in American communities. Employing stories from undercover inspections conducted by the Fair Housing Justice Center in New York City as the primary anecdote, a storytelling device Executive Producer of This American Life Ira Glass describes as a sequence of actions and questions designed to keep…

land owners whom inflicted pain on African Americans. With each laws put in place to disrupt the chance of progress, African Americans slowly started to lose their identities. Overtime, the basic rights African Americans were supposed to be entitling to became no existence. Such as the rights to vote to elect government officials to represent blacks. The right to vote is a way to silent the oppressors. Taking that away is like taken away African American freedom since they would have no say of…