North Carolina has a huge jobs challenge looming. By 2040, nearly half of all jobs could be lost to automation and other technological innovation. There will be new...
Since its founding, our country has experienced continual, and often fundamental, changes in the makeup of our population. Right now is no exception. In the last 10 years,...
Despite the taxes and the cold weather, Connecticut offers its residents more “access to opportunity” than nearly every other state in the nation, according to a recent report....
The long overdue reauthorization of the nation’s overarching federal education law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), better known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), appears to...
Iowa is home to more than 35,000 students who are out of work and unemployed — an issue that the national campaign Opportunity Nation should be at the forefront...
Perhaps more than at any other time in recent history, the national movement to increase opportunity in America has hit a tipping point. It is up to all...
The 2016 presidential election gives us a chance to turn this situation around by urging Democrats and Republicans to work together and restore America’s promise as a true nation of opportunity for all its residents.
The index, created by Opportunity Nation -- a coalition of business owners, educators and community leaders -- measured economic mobility and found Rhode Island lags its neighbors because of its high unemployment and poverty rates and the large number of residents ages 16-24 who are out of school and not working.
