New research finds that “soft power” pays.
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 inEconomy
Retirement Raidings
Americans are borrowing record amounts from retirement savings. Should 401(k) loans be limited?
Posted inEconomy
Garbage to Gas
Landfills and sewage treatment plants are an overlooked source of clean energy – but a boom in bio-methane might be coming.
Posted inGovernment, Republic 3.0
Fixing “Food Deserts,” One Grocery Store at a Time
Alabama joins a growing list of states promoting supermarkets in low-income neighborhoods.
Posted inEconomy, Government, Republic 3.0
Growing numbers of “benefit companies” pursue both purpose and profit
30 states and the District of Columbia have passed legislation legally recognizing “triple bottom line” businesses.
Posted inEconomy, Education
Segregation and Its Impacts on Latino Education and Earnings
Latinos achieve lower earnings and education in the nation’s most segregated cities, says a new study.
Posted inEducation, K-12
How to Fix High Poverty High Schools
Affluent high schools have three things lower-income schools lack, says a new study.
Posted inEconomy, Health Care
The Long Term Care Time Bomb
America’s biggest demographic challenges might be posed not by the very young, but by the very old.
Posted inGovernment, Republic 3.0
Ending “Banking Deserts” in Texas
“Banking development districts” and “savings lotteries” could help more Texans open and use bank accounts.
Posted inBooks, Economy, Magazine, March/April/May 2014
Refuting U.S. Declinism, Sort of
Don’t worry about America losing its dominant position in the global economy. Worry instead about whether average Americans will benefit.
