A Roadmap to Beating the Mental Load: Unpacking Emotional Labor with Leah Ruppanner
The mental load is gaining attention. Sociologist Leah Ruppanner offers practical tools to overcome it in her new book.
Planting Seeds to Grow Apprenticeship
Illinois college identifies three factors needed to be an effective apprenticeship sponsor
Unraveling the Case for Credentials in High School
New research from Texas and Ohio reveals how states can ensure credentials lead to opportunity for students.
Launching a Torrent of Youth Apprenticeships in Florence, Alabama
The LAUNCH youth apprenticeship program in Florence City Schools gives real-world paid work experience that provides economic opportunity.
Affordable Homeownership
The national conversation about how to fix the housing supply crisis focuses on building new homes, faster. And rightfully so. For decades, we have not built enough housing to meet demand, and fixing this requires new construction. At the same time, far less attention is paid to the invisible half of the supply crisis: the financing systems that lock millions of families out of affordable homes that already exist.
Roughly one in four owner-occupied homes in the United States—22 million—are valued at less than $200,000. For first-time buyers, especially in communities of color, these small-dollar homes represent a critical pathway to affordable homeownership. And yet, families struggle to buy these homes due to financing and repair barriers that make small-dollar mortgages harder to access. Through research, convening, and local partnerships, New America tackles these barriers to unlock access to affordable homeownership for all.
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The Rural Advantage—and Challenge—with Workforce Pell
The secret is out: rural colleges have real strengths, particularly when it comes to Workforce Pell.
Kristian Stout and Michael Calabrese: The FCC Lets Satellite Innovation Breathe
Michael Calabrese and Kristian Stout wrote an op-ed in Broadband Breakfast on the benefits that would stem from a pending FCC vote to modernize spectrum-sharing rules.