Expanding advanced placement was supposed to reduce racial disparities in college. It’s had the opposite effect.
Anne Kim
Anne Kim is a Senior Editor at Washington Monthly and the author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor (New Press, 2024). Anne is also a Senior Fellow at FutureEd and the author of Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection, winner of the 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. Anne is on Bluesky @anne-s-kim.bsky.social.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Tax the Unvaxxed
People who refuse the Covid vaccine are imposing costs on society. Time to make them pay.
Posted inPolitics
Why Democrats Still Need Moderates
The country’s moving left, but not fast enough for Democrats to ignore their right flank.
Posted inEducation
A Little College Student Debt Relief Goes A Long Way
While Washington, D.C. debates huge student debt relief packages, some universities are finding that modest loan forgiveness and support services can get students back to class and help schools’ bottom line, too.
Posted inEducation
Pell Grants Should Cover Good Short-Term Worker Training Programs
Right now, the federal loan program won’t pay for many job training programs, even if they lead to great jobs. The answer is “short-term” Pell Grants to provide a pathway to the middle class.
Posted inMain, Political Animal, Politics
The Wrong Way to Build Black Wealth
Maxine Waters has a well-intentioned but bad idea for promoting homeownership and wealth for Black Americans. There are better ways.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Joe, You Forgot About Lowering the Medicare Age
The president’s big speech featured a progressive wish list, but it was missing a proposal that makes for excellent policy and politics.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Welfare Work Requirements Have to Go
I used to believe Clinton’s welfare reform would fix the old system and help millions, but the must-work rules backfired. There’s a better way.
Posted inApril/May/June 2021, Featured, Magazine
Out of School, Out of Work
The pandemic has sidelined a generation of young adults. And the federal government’s only program to help them, Job Corps, sucks.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
How Earmarks Can Strengthen Congress
They’re back and they have the power to make Congress work and even encourage cross-party cooperation.
