The Biden administration expanded summer meals for low-income kids. Democrats want to make the program permanent, but most states haven’t started implementing it.
Kalena Thomhave
Kalena Thomhave is a freelance journalist and researcher based in Pittsburgh. She is a former Prospect writing fellow.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Undoing Welfare Reform
If Congress makes the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent, simple, and universal, it could have reverberations across the entire welfare state.
Posted inEducation in America
On Summer Vacation and Hungry
The school lunch program has gone a long way to reduce childhood hunger across the country. What happens during the summer?
Posted inDay One Agenda
Rethinking the Poverty Measure
The Biden administration can on its own authority change the poverty calculation, and with it, challenge the narrative of who is poor and why.
Posted inWorking in America
What Happened to Milwaukee’s Black Middle Class?
Democrats will need the support of a Wisconsin city battered by deindustrialization and deunionization.
Posted inCoronavirus
How to Make Philanthropy Actually Address the Crisis
A major new proposal could generate $200 billion in donations to nonprofits—and make wealthy ‘do-gooders’ actually do more good.
Posted inCoronavirus
The Journey of the Jobless
Congress boosted unemployment benefits. Now the challenge lies in getting them out to the unemployed, through underfunded state-level programs.
Posted inPolitics
Sanders’s Must-Win Effort in Michigan
In a state where he’s done well, Bernie Sanders pulls out all the stops to slow the Biden juggernaut.
Posted inEducation in America
On Summer Vacation and Hungry
The school lunch program has gone a long way to reduce childhood hunger across the country. What happens during the summer?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Poverty Doesn’t Sell, but We Wrote About It Anyway
Ten of the best stories on inequality we’ve published over the past two years