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Hearing from Low-Wage Working Mothers: How a Housing Program in Ohio Connects Children to Better Schools

All parents want to send their children to good schools. As these mothers show, the Move to PROSPER program in Columbus, Ohio, allows families who have low incomes to do just that.

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 23: U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) listens during a news conference on LGBT discrimination July 23, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The news conference was to introduce the Equality Act of 2015. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Commentary Work

Yet Another Reason to Love John Lewis—His Stance on Labor

Commentary World

Order from Ashes Podcast: Can the U.S. Help Syria Without Helping Assad?

Report Economics

Fighting for the Right to a Safe Return to Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic

About TCF Unemployment

TCF, New America Launch ‘One Stop Shop’ Unemployment Insurance Dashboard

Report Higher Education

Should States Make the FAFSA Mandatory?

Report K - 12

Closing America’s Education Funding Gaps

Next100

Next100 Is a startup think tank for and by the next generation of policy leaders powered by The Century Foundation. They are working to change the face and future of progressive policy, and to build a more inclusive, equal, and just America.

Will the Pandemic Kill Arab Print Journalism?

Race & Inequality

With COVID-19 Testing, We Can’t—Once Again—Overlook Communities of Color

Rights & Justice

Environmental Racism Has Left Black Communities Especially Vulnerable to COVID-19

SEATTLE, WA - JUNE 08: Demonstrators hold a rally and teach-in outside of the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct, which has been boarded up and protected by fencing, on June 8, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. Seattle Police and Washington National Guard personnel vacated the area after the previous night saw violent clashes in the vicinity during ongoing Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd's death. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)

Report Race & Inequality

This Moment in America

Commentary Race & Inequality

A Call for Racial and Gender Equity on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day

Commentary K - 12

What Much of the School Reopening Debate Is Ignoring

Commentary K - 12

Why We Must Center Antiracism, Humanity, and Equity When Returning to School

Commentary Work

Who Is Receiving Unemployment Insurance, and Who Just Lost $600 per Week?

Commentary Education

ISA Industry Relies on Age-Old Strategy to Ignore Existing Regulations

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA - JULY 22: People walk towards Sather Gate on the U.C. Berkeley campus on July 22, 2020 in Berkeley, California. U.C. Berkeley announced plans on Tuesday to move to online education for the start of the school's fall semester due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Report Education

FAFSA and the Free College Movement

Richard D. Kahlenberg

Director of K–12 Equity and Senior Fellow

Aron Lund

Fellow

Anthony Walsh

Senior Policy Associate

Taela Dudley

Senior Policy Associate