Project 2025 is Even Worse Than You Think. The policy blueprint takes aim at the poor by imposing strict limits on Medicaid and housing assistance.
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 inSeptember/October 2023
Google’s Participation Trophies
Big Tech promised that online career certificates would replace the college degree. They have so far proved to be, at best, a supplement.
Posted inSeptember/October 2023
How I Earned (Hacked) a Google Career Certificate
After writing for years about the benefits of certificates and short-term credential programs, especially for working learners, I had begun to feel inauthentic, like a self-help guru who doesn’t take her own advice. So I finally enrolled in one this spring: Google’s “career certificate” program in data analytics, available online through Coursera for $39 a […]
Posted inCollege Guide
Train in Vain
Why the government’s workforce training system includes the worst colleges and excludes the best.
Posted inEducation
How to Fix The Minority STEM Crisis
Getting more women and minorities into science, technology, engineering, and math is crucial and retaining them is crucial. Here’s what we found.
Posted inPolitics
Don’t Laugh Off Rick Scott’s Nutty Plan for America
The Florida senator’s proposal, which includes hiking taxes on half of America, has even been repudiated by fellow Republicans. But Democrats shouldn’t dismiss the threat it poses.
Posted inApril/May/June 2022
Near the Mexican Border, Texas University Uses Value and Smarts to Help Students Stay Enrolled
By keeping tuition low and offering generous aid to its Hispanic student body, The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley has lessons for the rest of the country.
Posted inPolitics
Would You Trust a Used Car Dealer With Your Tax Refund?
Tax preparation companies target the poor by partnering with retail businesses. Lax regulation, high fees, and businesses handling their refunds: What could go wrong?
Posted inEducation
Once a Pandemic Lifeline, Universal Access to Free School Lunch to End
Amid COVID-19, Washington bolstered funds for student meals. Now, despite bipartisan appeals, Mitch McConnell is fighting their renewal.
Posted inPolitics
Glenn Youngkin Goes Full MAGA
He ran as an amiable moderate. He’s governing like Trump.
