Aug 23, 2021
A permanent child tax credit should appeal to Democrats and Republicans alike. Here’s why. With surprising bipartisan support, the Senate recently approved a $1trillion infrastructure bill […]
Mar 20, 2020
Crises reveal vulnerabilities in societies more than anything else. The outbreak of COVID-19 is already uncovering just how wrongheaded the United States has been about what […]
Mar 9, 2020
In 2002, 30 percent of fourth-grade students in the United States were reading at or above proficiency levels. Seventeen years later, in 2019, that number had […]
Feb 17, 2020
A system rife with dysfunctions that prevent us from making the kind of population-level change and reduction in disparities we desperately want to achieve ...
Jan 20, 2020
In my blog post that closed out 2019, I revisited the question I posed in March when I first launched this Finding Common Purpose blog: To what end? The question is so central, so important, that it cannot be asked too much. I'm starting out my 2020 posts by posing it again...