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

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

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

Mar 26, 2026
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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Economic Security

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Pay More, Get Less

Pay More, Get Less

Report / In Depth

Pay More, Get Less

Staring into a difficult world economy that has yet to fully recover from the Great Recession, middle class families are feeling squeezed.

Apr 30, 2014

Joshua Freedman

Recommended Standards for TANF Payment Card Contracts

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Recommended Standards for TANF Payment Card Contracts

How states can protect TANF households’ interests in contracts with benefit card providers.

Apr 21, 2014

Elizabeth Lower-Basch, Aleta Sprague

Guest Post: Six Tax Reforms to Increase Economic Security for All

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Guest Post: Six Tax Reforms to Increase Economic Security for All

Building a more inclusive, progressive, and equitable tax code.

Apr 17, 2014

What Are People Saying About Tax Day?

What Are People Saying About Tax Day?

Highlights from this year’s Tax Day news

Apr 15, 2014

Justin King

Guest Blog Post: Outsized Impacts at Tax Time

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Guest Blog Post: Outsized Impacts at Tax Time

Accumulated saving matters in the financially volatile lives of low-income families.

Apr 14, 2014

Locked Up and Locked Out: Applying an Assets Lens to Reentry

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Locked Up and Locked Out: Applying an Assets Lens to Reentry

For ex-offenders, the institutional barriers to basic financial stability—let alone savings—are vast.

Apr 7, 2014

Aleta Sprague

A Second Chance for Low-Income Men

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A Second Chance for Low-Income Men

National-level anti-poverty programs have traditionally left low-income men out of the equation

Apr 2, 2014

Upcoming Event: 2014 Color of Wealth Summit

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Upcoming Event: 2014 Color of Wealth Summit

Managed by the Center for Global Policy Solutions

Apr 2, 2014

Hannah Emple

Just Published—The Assets Perspective

Just Published—The Assets Perspective

A new book from Reid Cramer

Mar 28, 2014

Reid Cramer

The Assets Perspective

Book / In Depth

The Assets Perspective

The book presents a multi-dimensional exploration of how the concept of asset building has taken shape over the last two decades.

Mar 28, 2014

Reid Cramer

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