Araceli Ruano

On Tuesday the Los Angeles City Council approved the long-debated LA Feed-in Tariff (FIT) program also known as CLEAN LA. This policy requires the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to buy solar power produced by residents, businesses, and public organizations that have installed solar panels...

Rebecca Friendly, Special Assistant for CAP CA, contributed to this piece.

At all levels of government there has been a serious push for increasing access to food among low income households and fostering more nutritious eating habits in communities and schools.

Last July, First Lady Michelle Obama and the

Last Friday, California regulators unanimously approved a robust package of progressive automobile standards known as the California clean car rules.

After three years in the making, this emissions-control program will increase the number of low-pollution vehicles available to consumers starting in 2017, with a goal to...

A report examining the academic achievement produced by a school district relative to its educational spending was recently published by The Center for American Progress. The results of the analysis -- conducted while controlling for outside factors, such as the cost of living expenses and the percentage of students in...

Meg Whitman's economic plan for California will dig our state into an an even deeper hole, not help us get out. It's long on political rhetoric, short on sound economics and today, August 10, the Center of American Progress will host a press call in which UC Berkeley Professors Michael...

The Center for American Progress (CAP) may be based in Washington, DC, but that doesn't mean it can't spot a good public policy taking place 3,000 miles away. One recent example is California's exemplary data collection when it comes to educational spending. Most states require reporting school district by school...