Report Care Economy

Child Care Funding Cliff at One Year: Rising Prices, Shrinking Options, and Families Squeezed

Last year, TCF projected the impact of the child care cliff: a combination of rising prices, staffing shortages, and child care program closures. Now, this is the reality many families are facing—even after action by some states demonstrated how investments in child care can benefit children, families, and the economy.

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Report Higher Education

Centering Black Women’s Experiences Regarding College Choice

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Report Health Care

Medicaid Has a Critical Role in More Equitable Maternal Health Care

Commentary Health Care

Enhanced ACA Marketplace Tax Credits Worked—And Shouldn’t Be Eliminated

Report Higher Education

FAFSA Fallout: Application Dropoff Threatening to Widen College Gaps

Commentary Century International

The Gaza War Has Irreversibly Strengthened the “Axis of Resistance”

Commentary PK-12 Education

How a Fifty-Year-Old Supreme Court Decision Fuels School Segregation Today

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Mapping Where Medicaid Policy Changes Can Improve Black Maternal Health

School Segregation in Cities Across America Mapped

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Report Economic Opportunity

A 2023 Plan for Economic Equity and Progress

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Commentary Higher Education

HBCUs Have the Best Return on Investment

Event Health Care

How Abortion Restrictions Are Worsening America’s Maternal Health Crisis

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Commentary K - 12

GAO Report: English Learners Benefit from Developing Both of Their Languages

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Commentary PK-12 Education

5 Ways State Education Agencies Can Support Students in the Foster System

Commentary PK-12 Education

5 Ways State Child Welfare Agencies Can Support Students in the Foster System

Event Next100

Young Adults Think America’s Political System Isn’t Working

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William M. Rodgers III

Fellow

Nicholas Danforth

Fellow

Elizabeth Dawes

Director of Maternal and Reproductive Health and Senior Fellow

October 15, 2024
From 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Young Adults Think America’s Political System Isn’t Working

Young adult voters may once again play a pivotal role in this presidential election, but their importance to our democracy runs much deeper than any one political cycle. Millennials and Gen Z represent the future of our multiracial, pluralistic democracy. Next100 and GenForward teamed up on a national survey of their perspectives on how well...

October 22, 2024
From 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

How Abortion Restrictions Are Worsening America’s Maternal Health Crisis

Researchers have found that if abortion care is banned throughout the United States, the number of maternal deaths would rise by 24 percent. This number is even worse for Black women, whose deaths would rise by 39 percent. How do we both safeguard abortion and tackle the maternal health crisis in these challenging political times?...