Media Center / 2008
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New Issue Brief from The Century Foundation Reveals the Extent of U.S. Gender and Racial/Ethnic Inequality and Suggests Remedies
An examination of the photos and names of those at the top of the political spectrum, from the presidential candidates to the appointees to the top spots in the past few, and next, administration provides a picture of a nation where gender and race/ethnicity do not matter. However, a new report from The Century Foundation shows that despite some progress, America is a nation in which neither minorities nor women have yet achieved anything approaching economic or social equality. In The Long Wait for Progress: Women and Economic and Social Equality, Century Foundation Senior Fellow Beverly Goldberg analyzes the substantial gap in wages between men and women, and then measures that gap in the context of women’s educational achievements and the continuing discrimination against women in the workplace, with attention to the impact of the issues of health and child care. -
A New Report from The Century Foundation: It Will Take More than Money to Solve the Nation’s Infrastructure Crisis
A political consensus has developed in the United States that significantly increased spending on the nation’s aged infrastructure is necessary for America to remain prosperous. President-elect Barack Obama and the new congressional leadership have promised to push for major new investments in the nation’s transportation networks, water systems, broadband capabilities, electrical grid, and other public facilities. While supporting those investments, a new report from The Century Foundation makes clear that there are serious institutional barriers to the effective use of those funds that have to be overcome if we are to put the new dollars to use wisely. In this urgent report, the former executive director of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Anthony Shorris, identifies four major issues that need to be addressed to ensure that the nation gets the most bang for the vast infrastructure investments it needs to make. -
The Peter A. A. Berle Environmental Integrity Award
The Century Foundation, in cooperation with the National Audubon Society, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and former colleagues of Peter A. A. Berle, today announced the creation of a new award intended to recognize environmental integrity demonstrated by public officials and private citizens in the United States. -
Respect for International Law Is First Step in Reclaiming America’s International Leadership and Credibility
October 31, 2008, New York City—To reclaim American leadership and credibility in resolving the many deepening crises on America’s international agenda, the next administration must move swiftly to reverse the U.S. rupture with international law and institutions of the past decade, writes the director of foreign policy programs at The Century Foundation in a new policy brief. r
