SEAP RESEARCH
SEAP conducts and supports innovative policy research. The research below includes SEAP-sponsored reports as well as research, communications toolkits, and fact sheets that seek to broaden economic power. Please explore our research and findings and feel free to contact us info@theseap.org if you have any questions!
SEAP and FRAC partner to create 2024 Summer EBT Resource
The Summer EBT program ensures that qualifying families whose children receive free and reduced school lunches during the school year will receive $40 per child in federally-funded, pre-loaded SNAP / EBT cards for every month of summer break. Launching this...
Pathways to Prosperity: Building Climate Resilience
This comprehensive report details both the impacts of climate change and the potential for federal investments to target the inequities these impacts create and compound. This edition focuses on people living in Southern states, a group particularly at risk. As...
SEAP Brief: Community Voice in Federal Funds
The new Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) provide $250 million in planning grants and $4.6 billion in implementation grants to states, local governments, tribes, and territories to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollution. The US Environmental Protection Agency...
Federal Infrastructure Funds: How Communities are Prioritizing Equity, Transparency, and Good Jobs
The Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offer states and cities funding opportunities for infrastructure improvements across all areas, including billions in competitive grants. As states and localities apply for these funds, the Biden...
American Rescue Plan (ARP) and Equity Initiatives
The term “equity initiatives” is vague as it encompasses incredibly broad categories and interdependent institutions such as the built environment, distribution of resources, transportation, and education to name a few. When local governments receive large amounts of funding, such as...
An 8-point framework for tracking the rise of large corporate landlords in single-family rentals
This report, “An 8-point framework for tracking the rise of large corporate landlords in single-family rentals,” dives into how current real estate processes can exacerbate existing inequalities during disaster recovery. In the aftermath of the foreclosure crisis and the rise...