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Commentary Higher Education

How Gutting the U.S. Department of Education Would Hurt Students and Their Families

February 12, 2025 — Kings Floyd, Peter Granville, Chantal Hinds and Halley Potter
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Commentary Economic Opportunity

How to Save Labor Law from Slaughter

December 11, 2025By Lauren McFerran
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Report Affordable Futures

Survey: The Affordability Crisis Is Here, and It’s Hitting the Working Class the Hardest

December 11, 2025By Angela Hanks and Julie Margetta Morgan
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Commentary Affordable Futures

Still Unaffordable: Child Care’s Rising Prices, Stretched Supply, and Staffing Shortages

December 10, 2025By Laura Valle Gutierrez and Julie Kashen
Commentary Health Care

Why It Matters: Congress’s Last Chance to Prevent Health Premium Shocks in January

December 9, 2025By Jeanne Lambrew
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Commentary Economics

’Tis the Season for Price Hikes: Popular Holiday Gifts Climb 26 Percent Under Trump

December 9, 2025By Breyon Williams, Nia Law, Elizabeth Pancotti, Angela Hanks, Laura Valle Gutierrez, Sarah Tammelleo and Bonnie Latreille
MANILA, PHILIPPINES - MARCH 10: The USAID logo is seen on a machine that processes recycled plastic into construction blocks at the Pasig Eco Hub, a project impacted by the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid, on March 10, 2025 in Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines. The recent suspension of USAID funding by the Trump administration has resulted in the loss of at least $69.7 million (approximately PHP 4.06 billion) in aid programs across the Philippines, affecting 39 ongoing projects spanning environmental conservation, health initiatives, disaster response, and education—some of which were set to continue until 2029. Among the impacted projects is the Pasig Eco Hub, a USAID-funded waste management facility, which shut down due to financial constraints, with USAID funding cuts further disrupting its recycling and sustainability programs. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)
Report Century International

The Foreign Aid Wipeout: A Shadow Revolution in America’s Middle East Policy

December 8, 2025By Daphne McCurdy and Laurel Bradley
From Century International
Commentary Economic Opportunity

Eight Steps States Should Take to Get Workforce Pell Right for Students and Workers

December 3, 2025By Andrew Stettner, Carolyn Fast, Rachel West, Tiara Moultrie and Michelle LaVere
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Commentary Higher Education

Congress’s College Accountability Statute Has Cracks. The 2023 Gainful Employment Rule Fills Them.

December 1, 2025By Peter Granville and Carolyn Fast
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Commentary Affordable Futures

A Pricier Plate: Thanksgiving Costs Climb Nearly 10% This Year

November 21, 2025By Nia Law, Elizabeth Pancotti, Alex Jacquez, Laura Valle Gutierrez, Sarah Tammelleo and Bonnie Latreille
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Commentary Unions & Organizing

The GOP Is Trying to Rebrand Its Anti-Worker Agenda. Don’t Believe Them.

November 20, 2025By Lauren McFerran
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Commentary Health Care

It’s Official: Americans Will Pay Much More for All Types of Health Coverage in 2026—Including Medicare

November 19, 2025By Jeanne Lambrew
DAMASCUS, SYRIA - DECEMBER 21: Ahmed Muhammad Al-Nawa (L) is greeted by a neighbourhood friend after returning home from Lebanon to his family’s home in the village of Harran for the first time in 10-years on December 21, 2024 in Damascus, Syria. 36-year-old Ahmed, was imprisoned and tortured by the regime for a year and half in the Mezzah Military Prison in 2012-2013, after his release, his wife and daughter were displaced from their home in the village of Harran, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, during the Assad regime’s siege of the region in 2014. They fled to Lebanon where they have been living in a tent in the Hosh Al-Hareem camp for the past 10-years. Ahmed’s mother Umm Marwan stayed behind in Syria due to a heart condition that stopped her from travelling. While living in Lebanon, Ahmed and his wife had four more children that were born in Lebanon and have never meet their grandmother, other relatives or seen the family home. After the fall of the regime Ahmed decided to return home bringing all his possessions from Lebanon and giving his mother the chance to meet her grandchildren face to face for the first time.  (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
Commentary Century International

Lebanon and Syria’s Detainee Dilemma

November 19, 2025By Sam Heller
From Century International
Report Care Economy

The Care Imperative: Why Investing In Care Grows America’s Economy

November 18, 2025By Julie Kashen, Laura Valle Gutierrez, Jaimie Worker, Kathy Mendes and Leela Berman
ADRE, CHAD - APRIL 24: Newly arrived refugee from Darfur in Sudan, sit on donkey as they head to their shelters on April 24, 2024 in Adre, Chad. Since the beginning of the recent conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the the Sudanese Armed Forces, (SAF), which began in March 2023, over 600,000 new refugees have crossed the border from Darfur in Sudan, into Chad. The total number of refugees, including those from previous conflicts, now stands at 1.2 million. Aid agencies, including The World Food Programme, (WFP), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, (UNHCR), already struggling with acute supply shortages, have warned that the life-saving programmes in Chad, will ‘grind to a halt in a matter of weeks without urgent funding’. Chad is now home to one of the largest and fastest-growing refugee populations in Africa. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Report Century International

The Horn of Africa Needs an End to the Gulf’s Proxy Wars. Cooperation Is Key.

November 17, 2025By Anna Jacobs
From Century International
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Commentary Affordable Futures

Fueling Debt: How Rising Utility Costs Are Overwhelming American Families

November 17, 2025By Julie Margetta Morgan, Mike Pierce and Eduard Nilaj
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