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Upcoming Event: "The Hell of American Day Care"
The Asset Building Program is hosting an event Monday to feature Jonathan Cohn’s recent article for The New Republic "The Hell of American Day Care." A great panel will help us piece together the...
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Event Summary: The Hell of American Day Care
The Asset Building Program and New America’s Early Education Initiative co-hosted an event yesterday on “The Hell of American Daycare,” so titled after a recent piece by Jonathan Cohn for The New...
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The Nightmare of Daycare
Editor's note: This piece originally appeared on New America's In The Tank blog. The average childcare worker in the U.S. earns less than a janitor. Sure, some daycare centers pay well, but the average...
View ArticleHHS Proposes New Child Care Rules
Editor's note: This post originally appeared on New America's Early Education Initiative blog. Conor Williams recently joined the Early Education Initiative as a Senior Researcher. He's just completed...
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Asset Building News Week, May 20-24
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news and developments in the asset building field. This...
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Asset Building News Week, June 17-21
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news and developments in the asset building field. This...
View ArticleNew New Fatherhood in the Inner City
July 3, 2013Dana GoldsteinJuly 3, 2013URL: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/02/new-new-fatherhood-in-the-inner-city.html
View ArticleThe Trouble With Work-Life Equality
July 12, 2013Conor WilliamsJuly 12, 2013URL: http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/07/12/the-trouble-with-work-life-equality.html
View ArticleGuest Post: Equality and Justice for All Families
Editor's note: This guest post was authored by Catherine Myers, the volunteer executive director of the national grassroots nonprofit Family and Home Network, founded in 1984.Americans are passionate...
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Kindergarten's Leap Into the Virtual Classroom
Technology has vastly altered the way students can attend schools- and many people may be surprised to learn that virtual schooling extends even to kindergartners. In fact, online offerings for...
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SNAP Cuts and the Classroom
Editor's note:This post originally appeared on New America's In the Tank blog. Our managing editor, Fuzz Hogan, spoke with Aleta Sprague of the Asset Building Program and Clare McCann, with the...
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Event Summary: First Focus Children’s Budget Summit
Editor’s note: This post was authored by Calum Montell-Boyd, a summer intern with the Asset Building Program. Calum is working toward his undergraduate degree in History and Politics at Oxford...
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Asset Building News Week, August 19-23
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news and developments in the asset building field. This...
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Just Who is Middle Class?
Dylan Matthews at Wonkblog does us all a service today by passing around this chart from today's Census Bureau release on Income, Poverty and Insurance:As he notes in his post, "If you're in a family...
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The Future of Fair Housing and the Promise of Local Journalism
For the past year, Baltimore’s local NPR affiliate station, WYPR, has produced a one-of-a-kind radio project called The Lines Between Us. Representing the best in local journalism, the series exposed...
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Amid Financial Collapse Detroit Builds a Promising Early Learning Model
This guest post was written by Paul Nyhan, a journalist and early education expert. He writes about early education at Thrive by Five Washington.In the next few months, guest blogger Paul Nyhan will...
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Asset Building News Week, November 4-8
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news and developments in the asset building field. This...
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Asset Building News Week, Nov 11-15
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news and developments in the asset building field. This...
View ArticleLeaning In or Reclining?
March 6, 2014Evelyn CrundenMarch 6, 2014URL: http://weeklywonk.newamerica.net/articles/leaning-reclining/
View ArticleMyRA for Renters? Sounds Familiar
Josh Barro has an interesting column for the New York Times today on how we can promote savings for renters. Homeownership, he acknowledges, is a method of “forced savings”: “Every month, you write a...
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