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Celebrate Today but Fight Tomorrow: Social Security’s Anniversary Is a Call to Action
This should be a moment of celebration. But instead, on Social Security’s 90th anniversary, I find myself sounding an alarm. The program my grandfather…
Patchwork Nation: From Code to Cleaning, AI Is Beginning to Devalue Everyone’s Work
AI anxiety is becoming a bipartisan issue. The tech sector was once a seemingly unshakable source of solid employment. Now people who can code are…
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Samantha Shorey

July 2025

Reclaiming the Future: 4 Lessons to Meet the Moment and Start Building for Tomorrow
If Donald Trump’s first term was defined by destruction—of norms, protections, and public capacity—his second is a campaign of consolidation. He and his…
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Let's go as big as families deserve
My proposal for a universal Child Development System
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Crypto Week: Brought to You by $TRUMP
The House has declared this week “Crypto Week,” seeking to pass major legislation that would embed cryptocurrencies more deeply into the US financial…
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Bilal Baydoun
“Other Countries Have Social Safety Nets. The US Has Women.”: A Conversation with Jessica Calarco
On July Fourth, President Trump signed his budget bill into law. Americans now face cuts to our already meager social safety net. The widening holes in…
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Suzanne Kahn
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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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June 2025

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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