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Isabel V. Sawhill

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Children and Families, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

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Farmers John Lader (L) and Austin Arndt are pictured on Arndts property just outside Janeseville, Wisconsin, U.S. November 10, 2016. Like many other rural Americans they voted for Donald Trump, in their case because of specific promises the Republican president-elect made to create jobs, cut taxes and repeal Obamacare. Picture taken on November 10, 2016. REUTERS/Nick Carey - RTSXPQ4

U.S. Economy

Isabel Sawhill on “The Forgotten Americans”

Isabel V. Sawhill

Friday, January 11, 2019

Isabel V. Brookings montage

Brookings Now

The philanthropic life of Isabel Vallé Brookings

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Heather Padgett, with her mother Debi Padgett (R), takes her daughters Kinsley and Kiley for a walk outside their home in Cincinnati, Ohio July 16, 2015. Until she got clean last August, Heather was part of what the Centers for Disease Control has called a heroin epidemic - a 100 percent rise in heroin addiction among Americans between 2002 and 2013. The sharp rise in heroin addiction, coupled with the risks of newborns developing withdrawal symptoms after they are sent home, has led a group of Cincinnati hospitals to try what they say is the first program of its kind in the United States: testing all mothers, or their infants, for opiates regardless of background, not just those who seem high-risk. To match Feature USA-HEROIN/MATERNALTESTING Picture taken July 16, 2015. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein - GF20000015645

Policy 2020

What are the challenges to adopting a federal paid family leave program?

Isabel V. Sawhill and Sarah Nzau

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Lauren Hoffmann, 29, a college program manager, and her husband Will Hoffmann spend the day touring wineries with Will's family in Fredericksburg, Texas, U.S., February 16, 2019. Hoffmann's baby boy Micah is just a few weeks old and already she is back at work. She only had five and a half weeks of accrued paid time off from her job. "You're worried about this tiny little new life, you love it so fiercely," she said. "Having more time to feel like you're getting good at this ... I think that could only be a good thing." REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare SEARCH "O'HARE PARENTAL" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Podcast Episode

Time for a new contract with the middle class

Richard V. Reeves, Isabel V. Sawhill, and Fred Dews

Friday, September 4, 2020

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London, Britain January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: UK-Africa Investment Summit, Turkey’s increased engagement, and Angola fraud scandal

Christina Golubski and Anna Schaeffer

Saturday, January 25, 2020

News Release

The Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution Appoints Kristin F. Butcher as New Director

Thursday, July 1, 2021

Students attend their college graduation ceremony in Shanghai's Fudan University July 2, 2011. China began expanding university enrollment in 1996 to meet growing personnel demands as the economy boomed, but Xinhua News Agency has reported concerns by the Chinese State Council over creating enough jobs for millions of college students who will graduate between 2011 and 2015. University education is a key component of China's goal to create a broad urban tier of middle class families with "well-off characteristics" nationwide. China produces about 830,000 college graduates every year. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION)

Op-Ed

How Washington’s hawkish China policy alienates young Chinese

Thursday, November 4, 2021

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Essay

What if something happens?: A qualitative study of the American middle class before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Cars are seen infront of the head office of Angola's state oil company Sonangol in the capital Luanda, Angola. June 7,2016. REUTERS/Ed Cropley

Up Front

A master class in corruption: The Luanda Leaks across the natural resource value chain

Victoria Bassetti, Kelsey Landau, and Joseph Glandorf

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Workers at Cain-Sloan Co downtown store wrapping Christmas gifts for holiday shoppers Dec 13, 1979

Essay

Women’s work boosts middle class incomes but creates a family time squeeze that needs to be eased

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Grocery store checkout clerk

Up Front

Guarantee 20 days of paid leave

Hannah Van Drie

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

For the fourth year in a row, Women's Strike NYC will be out in the streets in a gathering at Washington Square Park on March 8, 2020 reclaiming the anti-capitalist roots of International Working Women's Day and highlighting some of the major struggles at the crossroads of feminist and labor organizing identified by the March 8th Coalition. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

Gender equality, unpaid work, and women’s suffrage

Stephanie Aaronson, Molly Kinder, and Isabel V. Sawhill

Friday, May 15, 2020

Charts of the week

Brookings Now

Charts of the Week: For-profit colleges; effective birth control; women’s earnings

Olivia Tran and Fred Dews

Friday, November 6, 2020

Gender equality 100 years after the 19th amendment

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT