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Real Skills, Real Income: Why Youth Apprenticeship Is Resonating Now

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Future-Proofing U.S. Nuclear Policy: Forecasting Outcomes of the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile

Future-Proofing U.S. Nuclear Policy: Forecasting Outcomes of the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile

Debunking Myths on Student Parent Data Collection

Debunking Myths on Student Parent Data Collection

The App Store Accountability Act Poses Serious Concerns for Privacy, Security, and Free Expression

The App Store Accountability Act Poses Serious Concerns for Privacy, Security, and Free Expression
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Redrawing School Boundaries for Fairer Funding

Redrawing School Boundaries for Fairer Funding

Reframing Fusion Voting as a Practical, Powerful Reform Strategy

Reframing Fusion Voting as a Practical, Powerful Reform Strategy

Harnessing Terrorism Data to Reshape U.S. National Security Policy

Harnessing Terrorism Data to Reshape U.S. National Security Policy

Establishing a National Housing Loss Rate

Establishing a National Housing Loss Rate
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Making Child Care Work for Student Parents

Making Child Care Work for Student Parents

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Drinking Water Data for the Nation: Version 1.0 Release Webinar

Drinking Water Data for the Nation: Version 1.0 Release Webinar

Mar 31, 2026
The Understated Value of Regional Intermediaries for Workforce and Economic Development

The Understated Value of Regional Intermediaries for Workforce and Economic Development

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The Charleston Regional Youth Apprenticeship Model

The Charleston Regional Youth Apprenticeship Model
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AI Risks Creating a ‘Demand Machine’ for Governments, Report Warns

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AI Risks Creating a ‘Demand Machine’ for Governments, Report Warns

Route Fifty covered RethinkAI’s piece on how artificial intelligence will increase demand for government services before it increases efficiency.

Mar 6, 2026

Route Fifty

Testimony on “Preparing for the Future: America’s Community Colleges”

Shalin Jyotishi sits at a table testifying

Testimony / In Short

Testimony on “Preparing for the Future: America’s Community Colleges”

Mar 5, 2026

Shalin Jyotishi

The App Store Accountability Act Poses Serious Concerns for Privacy, Security, and Free Expression

An upward shot of three people holding cell phones. Their phones obscure their faces.

The App Store Accountability Act Poses Serious Concerns for Privacy, Security, and Free Expression

Mar 5, 2026

Sarah Forland, Prem M. Trivedi

Real Skills, Real Income: Why Youth Apprenticeship Is Resonating Now

Group sitting in a circle

Real Skills, Real Income: Why Youth Apprenticeship Is Resonating Now

Mar 5, 2026

Alexandra Simon, Jonathan Voss

The SAVE Act Is the Wrong Way to ‘Nationalize’ Elections. There’s a Better One.

The SAVE Act Is the Wrong Way to ‘Nationalize’ Elections. There’s a Better One.

Mar 5, 2026

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Protecting Workers in a Patchwork Economy

Tired Man

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Protecting Workers in a Patchwork Economy

Work, once a matter of years of commitment to a single trade, career track, or employer, has undergone a radical transformation.

Apr 7, 2016

Mark Schmitt, Shayna Strom

America’s Debt Problem (Dec 2015)

Money

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America’s Debt Problem (Dec 2015)

How private debt is holding back growth and hurting the middle class.

Dec 1, 2015

Sherle R. Schwenninger, Joshua Freedman

The U.S. Economy After The Great Recession

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The U.S. Economy After The Great Recession

The bursting of the housing bubble in 2008 plunged the U.S. economy into a serious crisis, leaving American households with huge debt.

Mar 4, 2014

Sherle R. Schwenninger, Samuel Sherraden

Beyond the Low-Wage Social Contract

NSC beyond low wage

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Beyond the Low-Wage Social Contract

By “low-wage social contract” we mean an economic system that not only assumes but also accepts that many jobs in the U.S. will pay poorly.

Sep 10, 2013

Michael Lind, Joshua Freedman

The Next Social Contract: An American Agenda for Reform

American agenda for reform

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The Next Social Contract: An American Agenda for Reform

The American social contract is in crisis.

Jun 10, 2013

Michael Lind

Renewing the American Social Contract: A New Vision for Improving Economic Security

Renewing american social

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Renewing the American Social Contract: A New Vision for Improving Economic Security

America’s social contract needs to be reinvented for the twenty-first century.

Apr 29, 2013

Joshua Freedman, Michael Lind

Expanded Social Security

Expanded social security

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Expanded Social Security

The conventional wisdom about Social Security is profoundly misguided.

Apr 3, 2013

Robert Hiltonsmith, Michael Lind, Steven Hill, Joshua Freedman

Kludgeocracy: The American Way of Policy

Kludgeocracy

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Kludgeocracy: The American Way of Policy

When you add up enough kludges, you get a very complicated program.

Dec 10, 2012

Steven M. Teles

No Discount: Comparing the Public Option to the Coupon Welfare State

NSC No Discount

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No Discount: Comparing the Public Option to the Coupon Welfare State

The fundamental ideological conflict surrounding the Welfare State in the U.S. is no longer over the scope of government.

Dec 3, 2012

Mike Konczal

The American Middle Class Under Stress

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The American Middle Class Under Stress

The foundation of America’s middle class is under strain.

Apr 27, 2011

Sherle R. Schwenninger, Samuel Sherraden