Regional public universities offer affordable degrees and boost local economies, but will they survive the pandemic?
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.
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A Simple Way to Demilitarize the Police
How Congress can prevent local law enforcement from deploying equipment that belongs only on a battlefield.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
The Marshmallow Test Donald Trump Is Failing
By pushing to reopen the economy too soon, he’s going to make things much worse later.
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Trump Sabotaged America’s Recovery Even Before COVID-19 Began
The president’s pre-pandemic fiscal recklessness will slow the nation’s rebound.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Trump May Already Be Discrediting a COVID-19 Vaccination
He’s systematically destroying Americans’ last reserves of trust in government.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Even Before COVID-19, Black Americans Were Dying More
The pandemic is the latest iteration of longstanding racial health disparities.
Posted inApril/May/June 2020, Books, Magazine
Punishing Fathers for Being Poor
A new book shows why the U.S. needs a different approach toward men who don’t pay child support.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Young Americans, Here’s a Selfish Reason to Stay Home
You are the ones who will bear the brunt of the coronavirus recession.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Americans Need a Basic Income During the Coronavirus Outbreak
The government should start sending checks to the hardest-hit workers.
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How Colleges Can Help Reverse Regional Inequality
The University of Wisconsin-Madison shows how one school can revitalize a local economy.
