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States' Merit-Based Aid Undermines the Aim of the Federal Pell Grant Program

September 25, 2013, Beth Akers

With D.C. Inertia, Urban Leaders Must Innovate

September 18, 2013, Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley

The Year of the Asterisk? California's Testing Proposal Subverts Test-Based Accountability

September 18, 2013, Thomas J. Kane

The Economic Case for Social Mobility

August 16, 2013, Richard V. Reeves

State and Local Government Deficits Soar. Are Others Following Detroit's Footsteps?

August 9, 2013, Tracy Gordon

Health Insurance Exchanges and the Affordable Care Act: What To Expect on October 1

August 7, 2013, Henry J. Aaron

Economic Growth Is the Only Fix For Detroit's Pension Blues

July 31, 2013, Tracy Gordon

The Retirement Surprise In Detroit's Bankruptcy

July 25, 2013, Robert C. Pozen

Local Economies Are Only Part of the Story of Economic Mobility

July 24, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill

A Globally Competitive Florida: Regional Opportunities in the Next Economy

June 27, 2013, Amy Liu

Are Public Pensions Keeping Up with the Times?

June 12, 2013, Richard W. Johnson, Matthew M. Chingos and Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst

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Maryland v. King: An Unfortunate Supreme Court Decision on the Collection of DNA Samples

June 6, 2013, Richard Lempert

Convergence without Coordination: Why Washington and Brussels Must Work Together in North Africa

June 2013, Ruth H. Santini and Emiliano Alessandri

Seizing the Opportunity to Reduce Nuclear Weapons

May 30, 2013, Steven Pifer

[Rick] Snyder is one of the governors who most gets the economic importance of the city. Without Detroit, Michigan cannot recover.

May 5, 2013, Bruce Katz, Financial Times

Recurring Disasters: Are We Learning Lessons?

April 10, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris

An American Future Filled with Promise

April 8, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Gen. David Petraeus

What the Stockton Municipal Bankruptcy Means, And Doesn't

April 2, 2013, Tracy Gordon

[Appointing an emergency manager to oversee Detroit's finances] is a very hard decision [Michigan's] governor had to make, it's always politically controversial to have the government intervene in this way, but it is the right decision to get Detroit back on its feet.

March 15, 2013, Bruce Katz

More than 70 percent of today's baby boomers and seniors are white, and they grew up during a time when the nation's minority population was relatively small and consisted mainly of African Americans. By contrast, 40 percent of those under age 35 belong to minority groups. They have grown up during a period when racial mingling is the norm at school, work, social occasions and houses of worship.

March 14, 2013, William H. Frey, Phys.org

As a nation, we've got to figure out better, more long-term ways, more sustainable ways, to fund needed transportation projects without having to rely on this annual uncertainty which seems to be the norm instead of the exception now.

March 14, 2013, Robert Puentes, WAMU

Expand State Partnerships for Passenger Rail

March 13, 2013, Robert Puentes and Joseph Kane

Immigration: the Magnet Versus the Fence

March 1, 2013, Jill Wilson

New Partnerships for American Rail

March 1, 2013, Robert Puentes

The places we see Amtrak being competitive, running effective and efficient service, are in those places where the state already has some skin in the game. These are places where Amtrak is treated not as a big federal bureaucracy that's coming in but is actually part and parcel of the transportation plan.

March 1, 2013, Robert Puentes, USA Today