David Alexander

Oct 21, 2024 | usnews.com | Maria Flynn |Nat Kendall-Taylor |David Alexander |Jarbas Barbosa

Earlier this year, I lost my parents. In their final months, instead of being able to focus on savoring our time together, our family was overwhelmed by the burdens of caregiving and the shortcomings of our health care system for the elderly. After suffering a fall, my mother, who had dementia, needed 24-hour care in a skilled nursing facility. But the facility lacked the necessary workers to provide the comprehensive care that her doctors recommended.

Oct 18, 2024 | usnews.com | Albert Hunt |Nat Kendall-Taylor |David Alexander |Jon Ralston

In this toss-up presidential election, every group of voters counts, and few more so than the substantial number of Hispanic voters in key swing states. Latinos have grown more than almost any racial or ethnic group of American voters since the last presidential election, now comprising nearly 15% of the national electorate, according to the Pew Research Center. They also have an outsized influence in critical battleground states.

Oct 18, 2024 | usnews.com | Nat Kendall-Taylor |David Alexander |Josephine Shapiro |Joshua Buxbaum

From kissing babies on the campaign trail to posing for photo ops at schools, politicians love to surround themselves with kids. Too often, it’s just for show. The reality is a huge gap between how much American policymakers say they care about kids (a lot) and how much they do to support kids and families (not nearly enough).

Jul 11, 2024 | spotlightonpoverty.org | David Alexander |Jessica Moyer

What Will It Take For America to Finally Put Kids First? Over the past five years, Leading for Kids and the Frameworks Institute have been trying to answer a central question: why is it so difficult in America to build broad-based public support around programs and policies that help kids? A new report outlines key principles for talking about and advocating for pro-kids policies that may avoid some of the political divisions, stereotypes, and tropes of the past.

Apr 16, 2023 | aninjusticemag.com | David Alexander

The toxic hypnosis of WhitenessIn March of 2023 we saw two (Nashville, TN, and Lexington, KY) more mass shootings in America — bringing the total for the year higher than the number of days in the year thus far, according to the Gun Violence Archive. It is an all too familiar script — a shocking event, followed by national attention, thoughts and prayer, and then debilitating inaction.