Quote of the Day, April 15th, 2013, excerpted from Tom Dispatch, “A Tax Day Plan for Righting the Republic,” by Mattea Kramer of the National Priorities Project: After [...]

Quote of the Day, February 4th, 2013, excerpted from “This Week in Poverty: Time to Take On Concentrated Poverty and Education” by Greg Kaufmann on The Nation: Breaking[...]

Quote of the Day, December 3, 2012, from a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation on “Disconnected Youth”: Youth employment is at its lowest level since World War [...]

Quote of the Day, August 27, 2012 If American kids who aren’t poor are doing so well, maybe our problem isn’t bad teachers or inadequate school spending or indifferent [...]

Quote of the Day, July 9, 2012 The level of inequality in the United States has clearly reached this ‘excessive’ level. It has more inequality than any of the other advanced indust[...]

Quote of the Day, June 28, 2012 The needs and challenges of adolescent/young fathers should be a central concern of policy makers committed to addressing the problem of intergenera[...]