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What does it mean to be "progressive?"
It means a change from step by step.
How is this still relevant today?
Today progressive is still relevant today by how they just debate over immigration.

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Adults forced children to work as adults were receiving little money from their jobs. Which was a cause in how child labor came into effect. They could pay the children little to nothing to work in poor conditions.

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Theodore Roosevelt's attacks on the railroads, trust-busting, and regulation of food/drugs

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Theodore Roosevelt's attacks on the railroads, trust-busting, and regulation of food/drugs

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Roosevelt pushed Congress to pass the Elkins Act in 1903, which imposed fines on railroads that gave special rates to favored shippers. An antitrust suit filed by Roosevelt's attorney general. Big railroad company, Northern Securities Company, was an illegal trust. Forced company to split into smaller companies. Roosevelt urged Congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act, provided federal agents to inspect any meat sod across state lines and required federal inspection of meat-processing plants. As well as the pure food and drug act.

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John Muir was an important impact as he led Congress to create Yosemite National Park in 1890, as Roosevelt admired him. We still have the Yosemite National Park meaning it did succeed.

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The Progressives brought changes in the federal government by bringing an accountability through laws that brought regulations to banking, business, mining, transportation, working conditions for workers and farmers. States developed programs for children and the elderly, while city governments were more accountable to the citizens by publishing their annual budgets and holding hearings for major changes, such as healthier foods, more care for children through community agencies and safer workplaces for labor.

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The main problem were the tenement houses. They were very crowded tiny homes, that families live in and share one room with their family members. The Progressives wanted better conditions, as in social welfare laws to help children, as well as government regulations to aid workers and consumers.

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Progressives intensified their calls for reform, making New York pass laws to make workplaces safer. Progressives also persuaded some states to pass laws limiting the workday to 10 hours.

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Florence Kelley helped convince the state of Illinois to ban child labor. Leading onto 1916, Congress passed the Keating-Owens Act, banned child labor. Child labor ends on 1938 for good. Laws were passed that required children to attend school until a certain age.

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Muckrakers were journalists, photographers, and authors who released their work to bump up the awareness of social issues and injustice. The two leading muckrakers were Lincoln Steffens and Jacob Riis. Steffens exposed how the government of Philadelphia let utility companies charge their customers excessively high fees. Riis published How the Other Half Lives, consisting of the crowded, unsafe, rat-infested tenement buildings where the urban poor lived.