New Mexico, a state long used to landing at the bottom of national rankings for children’s well-being, just made a...
Bryce Covert is an independent journalist writing about the economy. She is a contributing op-ed writer at the New York Times and a contributing writer at The Nation. Her writing has appeared in Time Magazine, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, the New Republic, Slate, and others, and she won a 2016 Exceptional Merit in Media Award from the National Women’s Political Caucus. She has appeared on ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NPR, and other outlets. She was previously Economic Editor at ThinkProgress, Editor of the Roosevelt Institute’s Next New Deal blog, and a contributor at Forbes. She also worked as a financial reporter and head of the energy sector at mergermarket, an online newswire that is part of the Financial Times group.
When Andrea (a pseudonym) was receiving the expanded Child Tax Credit last year, she would ask her three children what...
Does putting young children in a preschool setting harm them? Opponents of publicly funded child care and early education have...
It’s long been clear that children who grow up in poverty struggle later in their lives, experiencing everything from increased...
As a state representative in Michigan, Greg VanWoerkom has gone on a lot of tours of local businesses to find...
This July, American parents started experiencing something brand new. After Democrats passed an expansion of the Child Tax Credit in...
Connecticut Becomes First State in Nation for Baby Bonds
Helps Tackle Generational Poverty in Low-Income Families
Connecticut just took an unprecedented step: on June 30 it became the first state in the country to create baby...
Universal, Public Preschool Found to Help Students Long After They Graduate
Proof that Investing in Universal Preschool Can Pay Off
Is universal, public preschool good for children? Is it worth spending billions of dollars on, or will that money be...
Universal child care is getting a turn in the spotlight. President Joe Biden has proposed universal preschool for all American...
After signing a $1.9 trillion relief bill into law, President Joe Biden is taking on his next big policy priority:...