The report presented a range of solutions to protect progress that has been made in narrowing the economic gap between white America and blacks and Hispanics, including universal preschool, doubling federal investment in Pell Grants to allow more low-income students to attend college, and enacting a federal minimum wage of $15 an hour.
For political reasons too, to protect progress made through the Good Friday peace agreement, neither the UK nor EU wanted to see a hard border, so in 2017 they committed to the need for a backstop.
Harmful pesticides were shelved (or exported), smog was decreased, species were protected, and progress was made.
"This uniquely Californian campaign seeks not just to protect our progress, but advance an aspirational agenda that is achievable without the need of approval from a hostile federal government," said Anthony Wright, executive director of the advocacy group Health Access California, at a Capitol news conference.
Though he wields hegemonic control over his society, he views his dictatorship as the last bastion of humanity's scientific progress, and views himself as a guardian who oversees and protects that progress.
Someone who would protect the progress minorities have made, who is not afraid to criticize ills within the minority community.
The environmental group 350.org called Trump's election "a disaster" and said: "The climate movement will put everything on the line to protect the progress we've made".
"But when I left Square, I left the franchise in Kitase's hands, and he promised me he would protect and progress the Final Fantasy brand.
"Afghan women and girls were looking to the international community to protect the progress they have made in the last decade and they have been let down.
We readily concede that withdrawal deadlines cannot be set in cement without regard to protecting the progress that has already been made.
"Wen has been consistent – almost combative – on the issue of the need to use reform to protect the progress China has made.
