Lancy Downs is a senior policy analyst with the Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship in the Center on Education and Labor. Prior to joining New America, Downs worked at Convergence Center for ...

In the world of education and work, apprenticeships are a hot topic. Not as hot? The conversation about funding them. That’s because doing so can prove complicated: Supporting and scaling ...

The start of 2025 has been marked by chaos and disruption. Raging wildfires. Surging flu and norovirus cases. Escalating threats to immigrants and transgender and nonbinary people, reproductive rights ...

Lee Drutman explores the “two-party doom loop” of the U.S. political system and how proportional representation can break the ...

Today’s early educators face mixed messages about how and whether to use touch-screen tablets and other tech tools in their ...

Heela Rasool-Ayub critiques Donald Trump's hasty "America First" approach and outlines the way that it not only hurts U.S. global standing, but it paves the way forward for China to fill in the gaps.

But for many colleges, including many who long ago shuttered their centers, starting up and sustaining a child care center on ...

Today’s early educators face mixed messages about how and whether to use touch-screen tablets and other tech tools in their classrooms. On the one hand, they are navigating state and local policies ...

New America VP and ASU Professor of Practice Peter Bergen examines efforts at modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Paid family and medical leave is one of the most impactful policies for the workforce, their families, businesses, communities, and the economy. This collection consists of reports, articles, and ...