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Jan 14, 2025 | 
tcf.org | Tiara Moultrie |Robert Shireman |Laura Valle-Gutierrez |Denise Smith
Before federal student loan repayment paused in spring 2020, nearly 20 percent of borrowers—8 million Americans—were in default due to failure to make payments, while the overall total of outstanding student debt reached $1.5 trillion. To facilitate a new era of student loan repayment marked by a lower risk of defaulting, the U.S. Department of Education debuted the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan in August 2023, whose benefits were scheduled for phase-in over the following year.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Laura Valle-Gutierrez |Tiara Moultrie |Kings Floyd |Steven Greenhouse
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, much of the world that could do so pivoted to working remotely. By April, non-essential employers were scrambling to create a situation where their employees could work from home (WFH), thereby giving them an added layer of social distancing when enabling business as usual as much as possible. In general, up until that point, the infrastructure of work had never been dependent on being virtual to such a degree.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Laura Valle-Gutierrez |Tiara Moultrie |Michele Evermore |Steven Greenhouse
After working for over sixteen years in the home care industry, Hui Ling Chen, a home care attendant in New York City, is rallying against the city’s permission of the twenty-four-hour workday system. The system, she claims, is “inhumane for both the patient and the home attendants.” Chen is part of a much larger fight that seeks to establish fair wages and humane working conditions in the home care industry. The struggle isn’t new: it has roots going back decades.
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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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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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Apr 17, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Laura Valle-Gutierrez |Julie Kashen |Faith Jalango |Raahi Reddy
The CHIPS and Science Act, passed by Congress and signed by President Biden in 2022, signaled an incredible step forward in America’s pivot toward its industrial policy roots. Through this technological manufacturing bill—much like the automotive manufacturing revolution of the early 1900s—the United States will demonstrate its technological competitiveness while protecting against geopolitical shocks such as supply chain failures.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Michele Evermore |Steven Greenhouse |Laura Valle-Gutierrez |Julie Kashen
Note: Throughout this report, you will find excerpts of testimony from survey respondents about their experiences, which will help to illuminate what is being lost, and what everyone stands to gain should practices and policies change. While airlines serve many people, they do not serve all people equally, nor are they serving many Americans adequately. For millions of people with disabilities, flying is a logistical nightmare.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Jody Calemine |Steven Greenhouse |Laura Valle-Gutierrez |Julie Kashen
Back in 1997, I wrote a front-page story for the New York Times about a Nike shoe plant in Vietnam where workers were forced to work sixty-five-hour weeks for $10 a week and where many employees were exposed to carcinogens that exceeded local legal standards by 177 times. Around that time, I also wrote about 15-year-old apparel workers in Honduras who worked seventy-five-hour weeks for $0.31 an hour for a company that made clothing for Walmart and other chains.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Jody Calemine |Rebecca Vallas |Emily McGrath |Laura Valle-Gutierrez
In just about every corner of the country, policymakers and industry partners alike want to help develop their regional industries and economies so that they become an innovative and vibrant technology hub—a location seen as a global leader in developing and commercializing certain technologies and industries.
