Enhancing UI is more important now than ever.
Read more about our plan in The Washington Post. ⤵️ www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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@searchlightinstitute.org@searchlightinstitute.orgDIGNITY IN LOOKING FOR WORK. In a new paper, Searchlight’s Will Raderman details how — and why — lawmakers should enhance Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits to FULLY COVER the cost of living for American workers. Workers deserve stability during their job search. Full stop.
@searchlightinstitute.org"Raderman, Searchlight’s policy director, has long advocated for bolstering the unemployment system’s finances and management. It’s more urgent now, he said, with AI’s workforce risks and Democrats’ jockeying for 2028 presidential campaign messaging."
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@searchlightinstitute.orgFIRST IN WAPO: Searchlight's Will Raderman is out with a new report detailing how to expand Unemployment Insurance to FULLY cover the cost of living for ALL American workers.
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@searchlightinstitute.orgThere are plenty of wins in BAAJA — the new bipartisan permitting reform deal announced by @whitehouse.senate.gov & @heinrich.senate.gov.
One of those wins? NEW federal oversight over utilities and how they spend their money.
@searchlightinstitute.org🚨 The time to pass bipartisan permitting reform is NOW.
@janeaflegal.bsky.social: "If a Democratic president comes into office in 2029 and we haven't cleared the decks ... we're in real trouble. We have to get this done before 2028."
@searchlightinstitute.org"Time is of the essence. There is no guarantee that the next Democratic Congress can secure a deal that a lame duck Trump Administration will cosign."
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@searchlightinstitute.orgNEW MEMO: BAAJA is a good deal and Democrats should take it. Here are FOUR detailed reasons why.
1. Building a Better Grid
2. Holding Data Centers & Utilities Accountable
3. Keeping Politics Out of Permitting
4. Cutting Red Tape
From @janeaflegal.bsky.social and Pavan Venkatakrishnan.
@searchlightinstitute.org"In the scramble to try to regulate the industry, the opportunity zones aren’t going unnoticed."
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@searchlightinstitute.org"With insufficient data on where data centers are going and how they precisely impact communities, it is reasonable to question if data centers should be able to leverage tax incentives like opportunity zones."
@searchlightinstitute.orgNewly-proposed data centers stand to benefit from rural opportunity zones in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Read our full memo shared with Congressional leaders, public policy advocates, and staff. ⤵️
@searchlightinstitute.orgAmerica's data center buildout is shifting dramatically toward rural census tracts. Are new federal tax benefits part of the calculus?
@mollytaft.com takes a closer look in their latest column — featuring new research from our team at Searchlight.
@mollytaft.comReposted by @searchlightinstitute.orgNEW: starting jan 1, a new federal tax windfall could kick in for rural data centers around the country
new research from @searchlightinst.bsky.social shows dozens of projects potentially eligible for the break — as hyperscalers battle backlash against dcs
wired.comRural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax BreakUnder the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash.
@searchlightinstitute.org🚨 New Searchlight research, shared first with @mollytaft.com and WIRED, finds MORE THAN 100 planned data centers in rural America will be eligible for new tax benefits starting next year.
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@searchlightinstitute.orgDonald Trump’s indiscriminate and chaotic immigration agenda — and his Administration's overtly racist way of talking about it — has achieved what would've been unthinkable a year ago. Democrats now lead by a seven-point margin on immigration.
@searchlightinstitute.orgAs Republicans become even more ideologically aligned with Trump's tariffs and his reckless war in Iran, Democrats are embracing ideological diversity.
Heterodoxy, @adamjentleson.bsky.social writes, is why Democrats lead in 2026's toughest-to-win races.
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@janeaflegal.bsky.social and @emilypont.bsky.social took the stage to discuss permitting reform, grid modernization, and the future of climate tech, clean energy, and decarbonization.
@searchlightinstitute.orgIf Democrats win Washington in 2029 and permitting reform hasn’t been accomplished this Congress, it will be too late.
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@searchlightinstitute.orgDemocrats are right to push for a permitting reform deal with Trump.
As @janeaflegal.bsky.social and Pavan Venkatakrishnan argued in the Wall Street Journal: If Democrats are serious about climate change, a permitting reform deal today would pay dividends when they retake power.
@searchlightinstitute.orgSEARCHLIGHT x @cleantomorrow.org Thanks to everyone who joined our NYC Climate Week kick-off last night!
