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Type

State

Issue

Commentaries
Asset Building
Cities
Economic Opportunity
Justice System
Pathways to Employment
Florida
2022
March 2, 2022

Florida Guaranteed Income Pilot Focuses on Formerly Incarcerated

Commentaries
COVID
Child and Youth Well-Being
Economic Opportunity
Families
Gender
Mississippi
2022
February 16, 2022

Giving Black Women in Mississippi the Power to Create Change

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COVID
Child and Youth Well-Being
Education
Families
Tax and Budget
2022
February 9, 2022

AEI/Brookings Working Group Calls For New Emphasis on Investments in Children

Commentaries
COVID
Child and Youth Well-Being
Economic Opportunity
Education
Families
2022
February 2, 2022

A Bipartisan Path to Extending the Expanded Child Tax Credit

Commentaries
Gender
Hunger
LGBT
2022
January 26, 2022

New Data Shows More Than 25% of Transgender Adults Are Food Insecure

Commentaries
Digital Divide
Education
Place-Based
2022
January 19, 2022

Libraries look to social workers to meet new patron needs

Commentaries
COVID
Cities
Economic Opportunity
Job Quality
Washington
2021
December 1, 2021

Shift Scheduling Laws Can Boost Worker Well Being

Commentaries
Asset Building
Economic Opportunity
Job Quality
Pathways to Employment
Racial Equity
2022
January 5, 2022

How the Biden Administration Can Help Close the Racial Opportunity Gap

Commentaries
Child and Youth Well-Being
Families
Higher Education
Pathways to Employment
Women
2021
September 15, 2021

‘Pregnant Girl’: Telling Teen Parents to ‘Dream Big and Keep Going’

Commentaries
Asset Building
COVID
Child and Youth Well-Being
Economic Opportunity
Families
Georgia
2021
December 15, 2021

American Families Wonder if They Can Count on the Child Tax Credit in 2022

Commentaries
Economic Opportunity
Job Quality
Pathways to Employment
2021
December 8, 2021

Workforce Development Should Focus More on Fixing Work

Commentaries
COVID
Families
Hunger
2021
October 13, 2021

Has the Pandemic Changed Anti-Hunger Policy Forever?