Spotlight
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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.
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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.
Photo: UN Women
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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.
Photo: SpeakerBoehner Creative Commons
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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.
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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.
Featured Fellow
- Senior Fellow Jeffrey Laurenti
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Jeffrey Laurenti is senior fellow at The Century Foundation and works on issues relating to international law and institutions, the United Nations and related agencies, the maintenance of international peace and security, and the politics of American foreign policy.
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Graph of the Day Series
From income inequality to the latest employment figures, Benjamin Landy's Graph of the Day series illustrates data and findings in public policy research.
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The Future of School Integration
Edited by senior fellow Richard D. Kahlenberg, this book seeks to answer important questions about how socioeconomic integration plans are faring and to provide guidance for how they can be sustained.
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The 'Myth' of Voter Fraud
Tova Andrea Wang interviewed in U.S. News & World Report.
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Clear & Present Safety
Fellow Michael Cohen and Micah Zenko say the United States is much safer than the media and Washington D.C. have the public thinking. -
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Annan's Syria Plan the Only Game in Town
Michael Wahid Hanna in Foreign Policy.
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The Snapshot by Ruy Teixeira
Fellow Ruy Teixiera analyzes polling information to see what the public really thinks about current events and policy decisions.
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Why Does Social Security Confuse Reporters So Much?
Greg Anrig's analyzes why media stories about Social Security almost always built on the erroneous premise that the program is on the verge of a dire crisis.





