This paper examines what state community college associations do, how their capacity and influence vary, and why understanding their role matters for strengthening community colleges.
Welcoming America founder David Lubell on ‘ecosystem acceleration’: using immigration movement-building lessons to fast-track climate migration infrastructure in US cities.
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Hollie Russon Gilman and Sarah Jacob spoke with Austin Community College’s Center for Government and Civic Service about how students are gaining skills through civic engagement.
Supervised play fosters parent-child connection while giving parents time to study and connect to resources to support college persistence.
In Akron, Ohio, residents came together to deliberate on the topic of housing through a civic assembly.
On CNN, Peter Bergen discusses the reasons the Iran war has resisted resolution, and may continue to do so.
New America is pleased to announce the promotion of Molly G. Martin to Vice President of Development & Strategy.
The energy transition benefits everyone. The narrative should reflect that.
Jessica H. Brown, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of South Carolina, tests whether areas designed as child care deserts actually predict whether parents there are having difficulty finding an open slot, and finds that two alternative measures that account for local demand perform substantially better. To learn more about the paper, I interviewed Jessica via email. Read below to find out more about the difficulty of measuring child care demand, alternative methods for measuring child care access, and the policy implications of accurately measuring where child care needs are the greatest.