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Republican Leaders To Working Americans: You’re on Your Own
President Donald Trump’s budget bill has passed and is headed to his desk. It’s not just an economic travesty; it’s a moral one. It represents the…
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Elizabeth Wilkins
Who a Child Care Program Sells to Matters
I have a new policy brief out with some ideas on public sector solutions to child care supply
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Abortion and Economic Policy, Part III: How Dobbs Rewrote the Economics of Reproductive Health, with a 275-Mile Price Tag
In the three years since Dobbs, much has changed. Professor Caitlin Myers joined us again to discuss how she collects data on abortion and economics…
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Hannah Groch-Begley
The Right Has Bleak Plans for Childcare. The Left Needs a Bold Vision to Rally Around.
Head Start turned 60 last month, but it was the early childhood program’s darkest and most precarious birthday yet. In the budget conversations leading…
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Lena Bilik
The Antidiscrimination Discrimination Club
Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services and the steady inversion of civil rights law. The decision exemplifies so much of what’s wrong with our legal…
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Shahrzad Shams
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Trump Accounts Are Not Baby Bonuses. They’re Another Giveaway to the Wealthy.
Much has been made of the supposed transformation of the GOP into a pro-worker and pro-family party. And yet the new GOP has pushed policies that, in…
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Stephen Nuñez
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