By the time kindergarten starts, wealthy kids already have a major head start over their low-income peers. A novel program hopes to change that.
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, January/February 2017, Magazine
Minority Retort
In the era of Trump, congressional Democrats should practice “strategic co-opposition.”
Posted inJanuary/February 2017, Magazine
Time to Abolish Cash Bail
It doesn’t keep dangerous criminals off the streets. It just keeps the poor in jail—and finance companies rolling in profits.
Posted inMagazine, September/October 2016
How the Internet Wrecked College Admissions
Colleges are drowning in online applications, which is bad news for both schools and students.
Posted inHealth Care
Would a Public Option Improve Obamacare?
Adding a government-run plan to Obamacare marketplaces could be less contentious today than it was six years ago. The bigger question is if it will work.
Posted inRepublic 3.0
What Works to Turn Out Voters?
Research finds same-day voter registration and vote by mail to be the most effective strategies. Robo-calls? Not so much.
Posted inRepublic 3.0
The Monthly Interview: The Man Who Reinvented Public Housing
Working for President Nixon, Malcolm Peabody helped launch the creation of Housing Choice Vouchers, one of the few anti-poverty programs with enduring bipartisan support.
Posted inEconomy
What Donald Trump Gets Wrong About U.S. Manufacturing
American manufacturing isn’t in as bad a shape as Trump claims.
Posted inJune/July/August 2016, Magazine, Republic 3.0
Payday for the Public
How the CFPB broke the back of the payday lending industry.
Posted inRepublic 3.0
“Safer” Loans for Payday Borrowers
A new crop of startups aims to out-compete predatory payday lenders.
