On Children and Families:
11/2/2011: Ajay Chaudry on how children of immigrants are changing the face of America’s metropolitan areas.
10/7/2010: Karina Fortuny on five key national and state characteristics of children of immigrants.
9/18/2009: Olivia Golden on Reforming Child Welfare and her time as former director of the District of Columbia's Child and Family Services Agency.
4/14/2008: Karin Martinson on Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives.
12/6/2007: Rosa Maria Castaneda on immigration raids and their effects on children and communities.
7/5/2007: Ajay Chaudry on child care for struggling families.
3/15/2007: Adam Carasso on federal spending for children's programs.
12/8/2006: Timothy Triplett on lessons learned from the National Survey of America's Families.
9/13/2006: Jennifer Macomber on vulnerable families and what's being done to protect the children.
8/7/2006: Genevieve Kenney on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
6/7/2006: Austin Nichols on child poverty rates.
4/28/2006: Gina Adams on child care subsidies for welfare-to-work parents.
10/8/2004: Olivia Golden on improving children's lives.
On Crime and Prisoners:
4/21/2011: Nancy La Vigne talks about justice reinvestment—a data-driven approach to criminal justice policies.
12/1/2009 (updated): Janine M. Zweig talks about steps to confront sexual violence in prisons. (Original posted on 1/17/2006.)
5/07/2008: Amy Solomon on helping people exiting jail return to their communities.
9/27/2007: John Roman on violent crime, prevention strategies, and effective criminal justice policy.
10/27/2004: Jeffrey A. Butts on Juvenile Drug Courts and Teen Substance Abuse.
On Cultural Vitality:
2/28/2007: Maria Rosario Jackson on cultural vitality.
On Disaster Response and Recovery:
8/7/2006: Bradford Gray on New Orleans-area hospitals after Hurricane Katrina.
5/24/2006: Margery Austin Turner on rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
On District of Columbia:
8/4/2011: Jennifer Comey on the foreclosure crisis's effect on D.C. public school students.
2/2/2010: Kathy Pettit on the Washington, D.C., region's foreclosure crisis.
1/8/2008: Kathy Pettit on the sixth annual “Housing in the Nation's Capital” report.
12/8/2006: Peter A. Tatian on District of Columbia housing trends and challenges.
1/27/2005: Eric Twombly on nonprofits in the Washington, D.C. region that serve children and youth.
On Economic and Fiscal Policy:
4/1/2010: C. Eugene Steuerle on the nation's out-of-control deficits and the hard choices policymakers must make to put America back on a sound fiscal path.
9/10/2009: Robert Reischauer on reining in our massive federal deficits and why health reform is essential.
9/17/2008: Rudolph Penner on fiscal reform.
On Education:
12/29/09: Jane Hannaway on reforming the teaching profession.
On Employment:
5/26/2011: Demetra Smith Nightingale on Workforce Development Policy
1/20/2011: Robert Lerman on expanding apprenticeships to jumpstart employment and train job-seekers.
1/30/2009: Wayne Vroman on Ohio's unemployment insurance.
5/6/2005: Beatriz Chu Clewell on moving more women and minorities into science fields.
4/26/2005: Harry Holzer on jobs and workers.
3/1/2005: Pamela Loprest on disabilities and employment.
On Governing:
4/21/2010: Rob Santos on what trends we can expect and what challenges lie ahead for the Census Bureau.
7/17/2006: Olga Kaganova on managing government property.
7/6/2010: Erwin de Leon on moving beyond gross domestic product (GDP) as a country's sole measure of prosperity.
On Health Policy and Reform:
10/30/2009: Bowen Garrett on how coverage and costs will change over the next 10 years if America's health care system is not reformed.
6/15/2009: Sharon K. Long on Massachusetts's landmark health reform experiment.
3/05/2009: John Holahan on Health Care Reform.
9/6/2007: Linda Blumberg on the challenges of health care reform.
8/7/2006: Genevieve Kenney on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
9/26/2005: John Holahan on Medicaid reform.
12/22/2004: Robert Berenson on the trends and challenges in health care.
On Housing and Homelessness:
8/4/2011: Jennifer Comey on the foreclosure crisis's effect on D.C. public school students.
4/22/2009: Mary Cunningham on how to combat homelessness.
4/14/2005: Martha Burt on homelessness in America.
11/9/2004: Susan Popkin on relocated public housing residents.
On Immigrants:
12/6/2007: Rosa Maria Castaneda on immigration raids and their effects on children and communities.
4/12/2007: Everett Henderson on the foreign-born population in Arkansas.
5/13/2005: Randy Capps on the growing number of citizen children in immigrant families.
On Low Income Working Families:
10/25/2007: Marla McDaniel on racial disparities in the well-being of low-income families.
1/11/2006: Gregory Acs on low-income working families.
8/17/2005: Sheila Zedlewski on programs that assist low-income workers.
3/18/2005: Robert Lerman on new initiatives to help low-income families.
On Nonprofit Sector:
1/31/12: Joseph Rosenberg on tax policy and the nonprofit sector.
11/5/10: Elizabeth Boris on the flaws in government contracting with human service nonprofits.
7/13/2009: Thomas Pollak on local nonprofits' financial health.
7/19/2007: Francie Ostrower on nonprofit governance.
10/4/2006: Elizabeth Boris on the 10th anniversary of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy.
4/6/2006: Christy Visher on prisoners returning home.
2/16/2006: Elizabeth Reid on the increasing number of U.S. nonprofits.
On Poverty and Economic Security:
9/1/2010: Austin Nichols on how family incomes are becoming more precarious and unpredictable.
8/23/2006: Signe-Mary McKernan and Caroline Ratcliffe on the intersection between welfare policy changes and poverty trends.
On Retirement and Social Security:
2/22/2011 (updated): Richard Johnson on how retirement is changing. (Original posted on 6/19/2008.)
1/6/2007: Melissa Favreault on reducing poverty through Social Security.
7/25/2005: Rudolph Penner on proposals for individual savings accounts in Social Security.
11/22/2004: Richard Johnson on future retirees and Social Security.
On Subprime Mortgage Crisis:
7/10/2008: G. Thomas Kingsley on the subprime mortgage crisis.
2/1/2007: Edward Gramlich on the benefits and risks of the subprime mortgages offered to lower-income buyers.
On Tax Policy:
1/31/12: Joseph Rosenberg on tax policy and the nonprofit sector.
3/12/2011: Donald Marron on how cutting tax preferences is the key to tax reform.
5/18/2009: Rosanne Altshuler on tax reform and her experience as chief economist on President Bush's 2005 tax reform panel.
12/15/2008: Jeffrey Rohaly on tax modeling and other TPC analyses.
2/7/2008: Roberton Williams on the Tax Policy Briefing Book.
8/8/2007: Eric Toder on tax reform priorities and the social,economic and environmental ramifications of the tax system.
5/23/2006: Kim Rueben on why taxpayers should pay attention to state and local tax policy.
12/1/2005: Len Burman on tax reform.
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