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1 month ago | 
tcf.org | Steven Greenhouse |Laura Gutierrez |Laura Gutiérrez |Tiara Moultrie |Julie Kashen
On February 25, House Republicans narrowly passed their budget resolution, which provides a blueprint for the Republican-controlled Congress to cut at least $1.5 trillion from health, education, and nutrition programs, and more. It’s their first step toward enacting President Trump and Elon Musk’s agenda to slash programs everyday Americans rely on, in order to deliver trillions of dollars in tax breaks for the wealthiest.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Julie Kashen |Laura Valle-Gutierrez |Michelle Burris |Tanu Kumar
We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt & carry into execution, measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power. —George Washington to John Jay, August 15, 1786Executive SummaryExperience teaches us that the resolution of contested public policies is often delayed by public officials until events force them to act.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Laura Valle-Gutierrez |Julie Kashen |Lea Woods |Kings Floyd
Dr. Ronald C. Williams, director of the Center for Strategic Entrepreneurship at Coppin State University, knows firsthand the challenges that leaders of color face when collaborating on major federal grants targeted at the manufacturing sector. In a recent proposal design process, despite the fact that many grant opportunities require the participation of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) like Coppin State, Dr. Williams felt unacknowledged and undervalued.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Emily McGrath |Michele Evermore |Steven Greenhouse |Julie Kashen
The Biden–Harris administration has demonstrated an historically unprecedented commitment to equity over the past three-and-a-half years, making good on their campaign promise to codify inclusive growth within all levels of federal policy-making.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Lea Woods |Lauren Hogan |Julie Kashen |Laura Valle-Gutierrez
Jobs numbers from spring and summer 2024 have reflected higher employment rates for prime-working-age women than ever in history. Moms with children under age 5 have been the most rapidly growing segment of the labor force. At the same time, child care prices are rising faster than inflation, child care programs are having trouble hiring and retaining early educators, and, in too many communities, child care programs are closing down.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Julie Kashen |Lea Woods |Michele Evermore |Jody Calemine
Donald Trump proclaimed he was for “all the forgotten men and women,” in his acceptance speech at the Republican convention. His vice-presidential pick, JD Vance, consistently portrays himself as a pro-worker populist. But an analysis of the labor chapter of Project 2025—an ambitious rightwing plan to guide the next Republican presidency—found that it has little to offer them.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Emily McGrath |Julie Kashen |Lea Woods |Paul Semenza
Our communities are made richer when we take good care of our children and each other. That means parents should have the support they need to work, rest, spend time together, and live full and vibrant lives. That support must include child care that meets families’ unique needs, regardless of where they live or how much money they make. In America today, more than two-thirds of children from birth through age 6 have all parents in the workforce (both coupled and solo parents).
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Michele Evermore |David Balducchi |Julie Kashen |Lea Woods
In response to the historic challenges that the nation’s unemployment insurance (UI) system faced in 2020 during the pandemic, the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) assembled a bipartisan task force of public and private sector experts—the Task Force on Unemployment Insurance—to examine how the program responded to the massive surge of unemployed workers and to discuss ways to build a more robust program.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Julie Kashen |Lea Woods |Lauren Hogan |Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan
Health coverage plays a critical role in enabling women to access health care. It can alleviate some of health care’s financial burden and often determines whether or not individuals seek care at all. For example, before the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), nearly half (48 percent) of women ages 19–64 reported delaying medical care due to cost, but this number has dropped by more than 40 percent (to only 28 percent) since the law was enacted.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
couriernewsroom.com | Julie Kashen
By Julie KashenEvery four years, breathless news coverage of the “horse race” presidential cycle too often leaves out what the election actually means for families across the country. That is a mistake: as presidential elections are an important opportunity for America to have a national conversation about the policy issues that could make lives better.
