From Pandemic to Progress

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unbearable hardship, but the nation’s collective response to it has made one thing clearer than ever before: policy matters. When America’s systems are broken, it’s people who pay the price. With your help, The Century Foundation is helping the nation’s leaders to deliver transformational changes to policy that will make people’s lives better. 

See how we made change in our 2021 Annual Report, “From Pandemic to Progress”

Our expert staff—working on education, health care, economic opportunity, and international affairs—is dedicated to providing essential and brave policy recommendations, backed by countless hours of rigorous research. They are connected to legislative leaders and are poised to do their part—but they need your help. 

With your financial support, we can continue this work that touches every corner of American life.

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TCF By the Numbers

  • A mother kissing her baby

    1,170,000 new mothers would have access to extended Medicaid coverage over ten years under changes advocated by TCF.

  • Group photo of next 100 team

    More than 16,000 hours of training and support was delivered to emerging leaders through innovative TCF initiatives Next100 and the Summer Scholars program.

  • A federal check of the United States Tresury

    More than $680 billion in emergency unemployment benefits were distributed over the first eighteen months of the pandemic, a process during which TCF was the go-to resource for policymakers and reporters.

  • A teacher with Prek students

    62,500 extra kindergarten students will be offered accelerated learning each year in New York City public schools under changes put forth by TCF to eliminate outdated admissions tests for the city’s four year olds.

  • a woman in a cap and gown covers her face with her hands

    $1.5 billion in federal student loan debt was forgiven for nearly 92,000 borrowers in 2021 following more than four years of work by TCF to expose the backlog of claims and demand justice for students.

  • $25 million was allocated to fund the Manufacturing Communities Program, an investment championed by TCF together with partners on the ground.

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From Pandemic to Progress

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