Spotlight

Graph of the Day: Fiscal Restraint

Yesterday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released their analysis of the upcoming "fiscal cliff" and the results aren't encouraging. Unless Congress finds a way to delay the $607 billion worth of tax increases and spending cuts that are scheduled to kick in automatically at the end of this year, the CBO expects the U.S. will fall briefly into another recession. Learn more in Benjamin Landy's Graph of the Day.

Egypt at the Polls

Fellows Michael Hanna and Thanassis Cambanis have spent much time in Egypt since the February 2011 revolution and are currently bringing on-the-ground insights and an examination of the country's political future.  TCF will hold an event,  Egypt at the Polls: Next Phase in a Democratic Transition? featuring both fellows on June 5.

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The Ryan Budget Versus the Budget for All

As numeric embodiments of national priorities, budget proposals strip away political rhetoric to reflect underlying policy priorities. Learn more in this Century Foundation and Economic Policy Institute report on the Ryan Budget by Andrew Fieldhouse, Rebecca Thiess, and Ethan Pollack. Download the PDF. Read more of Fieldhouse's analysis on Blog of the Century.

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Millennials Want a More Equitable Society

Conservatives are hoping to build support among Millennials by capitalizing on economic discontent. But Millennials’ high level of concern about inequality may make that very hard, since conservatives deny inequality is much of a problem and actually propose to make it worse through their favored tax and budget policies.  See the poll numbers in Ruy Teixeira's Snapshot.

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Progressive Response to Tax Reform

Moving tax reform through Congress will not be easy. Republicans are sure to resist anything that even resembles a tax increase. Guest blogger David Mitchell discusses the conservative talking points we can expect to hear—and what the best progressive responses could be in this Blog of the Century post. See Part 1 and Part 2.

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Labor Organizing As a Civil Right

Senior Fellow Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Z. Marvit take on the issue of labor organizing in new book, Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right. Read the Introduction and hear the story behind the book's cover photo of sanitation workers striking in 1968. Read Kahlenberg's interview in American Prospect and Civil Right activists Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill's review of the book. View video of  the related event. An NYC event will be held on June 4.

Socioeconomic Diversity & Early Learning

The Future of School Integration: Socioeconomic Diversity as an Education Reform Strategy, edited by senior fellow Richard D. Kahlenberg  seeks to answer questions about how socioeconomic integration plans are faring and to provide guidance for  sustainability. Socioeconomic Diversity and Early Learning: The Missing Link in Policy for High-Quality Preschools by Teacher College's Jeanne L. Reid is now available for download.