Spotlight
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New Report: A Better Affirmative Action
The Supreme Court of the United States will hear the Fisher v. Texas argument on October 10. The case could dramatically alter or eliminate race-based admissions policies at colleges and universities. In a new report, A Better Affirmative Action, Senior Fellow Richard Kahlenberg and Policy Associate Halley Potter look at solutions to racial preferences in Affirmative Action. Download here. View video from the related event.
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Weighing Alternatives To Affirmative Action
In recent years, several states have banned schools from using racial and ethnic preferences. Instead, many have created alternatives to give low-income and working-class students of all races more opportunities to enroll. But those alternatives have fierce critics, on both sides of the debate. TCF Senior Fellow Richard Kahlenberg discusses this on NPR's Talk of the Nation.
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Graph of the Day: Unemployment Rate Drops to 7.8%
The jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday shows the unemployment rate dropped to 7.8% in September as the economy gained 114,000 jobs and more people rejoined the labor force. Public sector employment also increased slightly as states rehired some of the thousands of teachers laid off during the recession
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Jobs Projections of Obama & Romney Budget Plans
The most pressing economic challenge facing the U.S. remains elevated unemployment rates. Both President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney contend that they have plans to accelerate job creation. A new report by TCF and EPI's Andrew Fieldhouse and EPI's Josh Bivens models and analyzes projected macroeconomic impacts of the candidates’ respective budget plans.
Photo: Samuel Huron
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We Are the 96 Percent
Mitt Romney's infamous line about the 47 percent missed the deeper truth, write TCF Fellow Suzanne Mettler and John Sides in The New York Times. Nearly all Americans have used government social policies at some point in their lives. The beneficiaries include the rich and the poor, Democrats and Republicans. Almost everyone is both a maker and a taker.
Featured Fellow
- Fellow Robert C. Hockett
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Robert C. Hockett, is a professor of law at Cornell University Law School. He conducts research in the fields of organizational and financial law and economics, particularly as they relate to economic globalization and inequality.
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Graph of the Day Series
From income inequality to the latest employment figures, Benjamin Landy's Graph of the Day series illustrates data and findings in public policy research.
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The Future of School Integration
Edited by senior fellow Richard D. Kahlenberg, this book seeks to answer important questions about how socioeconomic integration plans are faring and to provide guidance for how they can be sustained.
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The 'Myth' of Voter Fraud
Tova Andrea Wang interviewed in U.S. News & World Report.
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Everyone’s an Islamist Now
Thanassis Cambanis on the search for a new political terminology for the Arab world.
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