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Commentary Economic Opportunity

Fueling Debt: How Rising Utility Costs Are Overwhelming American Families

A new Century Foundation-Protect Borrowers analysis shows that Americans can’t keep up with surging energy prices—bills that are pushing millions of families deeper into debt and hardship.

November 17, 2025By Julie Margetta Morgan, Mike Pierce and Eduard Nilaj
Report Care Economy

The Care Imperative: Why Investing In Care Grows America’s Economy

November 18, 2025By Julie Kashen, Laura Valle Gutierrez, Jaimie Worker, Kathy Mendes and Leela Berman
Report Economic Opportunity

How States Can Lead the Way for Workers: A State Playbook

November 10, 2025By Rachel West and Julie Su
Report Higher Education

A Better Hundred Billion: Improving State and Institutional College Financial Aid

November 6, 2025By Peter Granville, Denise A. Smith and Jaime Ramirez-Mendoza
Commentary Health Care

Allowing ACA Tax Credits to Expire Would Mean the Biggest Premium Price Hike in History

October 8, 2025By Jeanne Lambrew
Report English Learners

What Families Want: New Data on Public Demand for Bilingual Education

November 12, 2025By Dr. Conor P. Williams, Dr. Maggie Marcus and Dr. Monique Escobedo
Report Economic Opportunity

Trump’s Assault on Independent Agencies Endangers Us All

October 22, 2025By Lauren McFerran and Celine McNicholas

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Report Economics

The Hidden Costs of Trump’s Economy: Skipped Meals, Rising Debt, and the Impossible Choices Facing American Families

July 31, 2025 — Julie Margetta Morgan and Rachel West

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The Care Imperative: Why Investing In Care Grows America’s Economy

November 18, 2025 — By Julie Kashen, Laura Valle Gutierrez, Jaimie Worker, Kathy Mendes and Leela Berman
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Why American Higher Education Needs An Overhaul

December 3, 2025 — New York
ADRE, CHAD - APRIL 24: Newly arrived refugee from Darfur in Sudan, sit on donkey as they head to their shelters on April 24, 2024 in Adre, Chad. Since the beginning of the recent conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the the Sudanese Armed Forces, (SAF), which began in March 2023, over 600,000 new refugees have crossed the border from Darfur in Sudan, into Chad. The total number of refugees, including those from previous conflicts, now stands at 1.2 million. Aid agencies, including The World Food Programme, (WFP), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, (UNHCR), already struggling with acute supply shortages, have warned that the life-saving programmes in Chad, will ‘grind to a halt in a matter of weeks without urgent funding’. Chad is now home to one of the largest and fastest-growing refugee populations in Africa. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Report Century International

The Horn of Africa Needs an End to the Gulf’s Proxy Wars. Cooperation Is Key.

November 17, 2025 — By Anna Jacobs
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Commentary Economic Opportunity

Fueling Debt: How Rising Utility Costs Are Overwhelming American Families

November 17, 2025 — By Julie Margetta Morgan, Mike Pierce and Eduard Nilaj
Report English Learners

What Families Want: New Data on Public Demand for Bilingual Education

November 12, 2025 — By Dr. Conor P. Williams, Dr. Maggie Marcus and Dr. Monique Escobedo
Commentary Unions & Organizing

What Labor Leaders and Policymakers Can Learn from Georgia

November 12, 2025 — By Julie Su
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