Past Events


At 8:30 am

Inequality Begins at Birth: Child Poverty in America

Join TCF's newest fellow Jeff Madrick for a day-long event to discuss America's child poverty problem. The conference, Inequality Begins at Birth: Child Poverty in America, is sponsored by The Century Foundation’s Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government Initiative, the Roosevelt Institute and the Academic Pediatric Association. America’s child poverty rate, currently above 22 percent—the highest in the developed world—is one of...

At 11:30 am
, 1899 L Street NW Suite 400, Washington, DC, 20036, United States

Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream

From the 1940s, with the introduction of the G.I. Bill, through the 1970s, with the creation of Pell Grants, the federal government and states transformed American higher education from a bastion of privilege into a path to the American dream. But in the years since, this progress has stopped, and in fact, reversed itself. Instead...

At 1:00 pm
, 1016 16th Street NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC, 20036, United States

Encouraging integrated schools in the District of Columbia?

“Parents would express preferences among a cluster of schools, and an algorithm would make matches by balancing personal preferences with the shared civic goal of maximizing socioeconomic integration.” That’s how controlled-choice zones would work in Washington, D.C., as suggested by Sam Chaltain, Richard Kahlenberg, and Michael Petrilli in a recent Washington Post op-ed. Why try...