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Report Care Economy

Child Care Cliff: 3.2 Million Children Likely to Lose Spots with End of Federal Funds

This report projects the dire consequences when the federal child care stabilization dollars run out on children, child care programs, early educators, parents, and state economies.

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Report Rights & Justice

How Zoning Promotes Inequality in Education: The Case of the Buffalo Area

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Commentary Unions & Organizing

Unemployment and Strikes: What You Need to Know

Report K - 12

Creating a More Diverse Teaching Workforce: Lessons for School Districts from Maryland

Commentary Disability

Top 5 Reasons SSI’s Asset Limits Are Long Overdue for an Upgrade

Report Shia Politics

Iraq’s Sectarian Relapse: Lessons of the “Shia House”

Podcast Off-Kilter Podcast

Off-Kilter Podcast: Inside the Disabled Journalists’ Association–with Cara Reedy

Next100

Next100 is a different kind of think tank, built for a new generation of policy leaders, and powered by The Century Foundation.

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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

Event Century International

Does Democracy Have a Future in Israel?

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Commentary Health Equity

3 Ways a Government Shutdown Would Hurt Health Equity

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Podcast Off-Kilter Podcast

Off-Kilter Podcast: Labor of Love: A Sit-down with America’s Most Celebrated Labor Reporter—with Steven Greenhouse

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Commentary School Integration

How My Family’s Immigration Story Connects to Integration

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Commentary College Affordability

Fact Sheet: California Strives for Affordable College, Yet These Borrowers Slip Through the Cracks

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Report College Affordability

The Student Loan Borrowing Undermining California’s Affordability Efforts

Ashraf Hassan

Policy Associate

Laura Valle Gutierrez

Fellow

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Mark Zuckerman

President

Ryan Prior

Fellow

October 11, 2023
From 10:00 am to 11:00 am

Power Politics and Islamists in Iraq

Since 2003, Iraq has served as both a test lab and a model for new approaches to religion, politics, and power. What factors beyond sect and religion explain politics and the pursuit of power? Join Century International on Wednesday, October 11 at 10:00 AM to hear Sajad Jiyad, Taif Alkhudary, Maria Luisa Fantappie, and Renad...

October 24, 2023
From 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th St, Room 1302, New York, New York, 10027

Does Democracy Have a Future in Israel?

Israel’s democratic crisis began long before the political tumult of 2023: it dates to the beginning of Israeli statehood and even earlier. Join us on Tuesday, October 24 at 1:00 PM at Columbia University, as Century International fellow Dahlia Scheindlin, author of the new book The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel, analyzes the erratic...