2010 • Law • Democratic Party
Contemporary Era • Barack Obama
Impact Score: 28
Reduced the federal sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses.
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2010 • Law • Democratic Party
Contemporary Era • Barack Obama
Impact Score: 28
Reduced the federal sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses.
2010 • Program • Democratic Party
Contemporary Era • Barack Obama
Impact Score: 32
Established a federal evidence-based home visiting program for pregnant women and families with young children in communities facing greater barriers and health risks.
2010 • Law • Democratic Party
Contemporary Era • Barack Obama
Impact Score: 35
Expanded Medicaid, created insurance marketplaces, prohibited many coverage denials, and widened subsidized access to health insurance.
2015 • Agency Action • Democratic Party
Contemporary Era • Barack Obama
Impact Score: 28
HUD issued a final rule to give jurisdictions receiving HUD funds clearer planning obligations, data tools, and procedures for meeting the Fair Housing Act's requirement to affirmatively further fair housing.
2015 • Court Case • Judicial Branch
Contemporary Era • Barack Obama
Impact Score: 35
The Supreme Court held that disparate-impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act, preserving an important tool for challenging facially neutral housing policies with discriminatory effects.
2017 • Law • Republican Party
Contemporary Era • Donald J. Trump
Impact Score: 32
Updated and expanded GI Bill benefits, including changes affecting housing, school closures, reserve eligibility, and the elimination of benefit expiration for many Post-9/11 GI Bill users.
Bipartisan criminal justice reform law that reduced some federal sentencing disparities and expanded earned-time credits.
Permanently funded mandatory federal support for HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions.
2021 • Law • Democratic Party
Contemporary Era • Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Impact Score: 28
Pandemic relief law that included the expanded Child Tax Credit, direct payments, and other anti-poverty measures.
2021 • Executive Order • Democratic Party
Contemporary Era • Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Impact Score: 27
Directed federal agencies to assess whether programs and policies perpetuated systemic barriers for underserved communities.
2021 • Program • Democratic Party
Contemporary Era • Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Impact Score: 32
Created a USDA lending framework to help producers and landowners resolve heirs' property title problems that often prevent access to federal agricultural programs and make Black-owned family land vulnerable to partition sales and loss.
2022 • Law • Democratic Party
Contemporary Era • Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Impact Score: 34
Expanded eligibility for VA healthcare and disability benefits related to toxic exposures, including burn pits, Agent Orange-related conditions, and other service-connected harms.