"Americans have a kind of insane relationship with time, in which we are in a sense being used by time and trapped by it."

There are two big areas of need in our recovery efforts: subsidized employment and opportunities to serve.

Martha Ross at the Brookings Institution and I proposed a federal Education and Employment Promise for the 2020s, a set of policies that would articulate a shared national vision for how young people find their way in today’s America.

This piece in the Hill may serve as a historical artifact, a view of what the world of work would look like after the COVID-19 pandemic.

NYEC’s 2019 summation of the state of the field was an urgent call to arms. We could not have imagined how much more urgent it would become.