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MAY 30, 2024

This issue is not a social issue, it’s an economic issue and frankly, it’s a simple question of math,” Raimondo wrote in an emailed statement to The 19th. “If It’s why Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has focused on addressing barriers they have historically faced in these industries — and the most obvious barrier is child care.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Kirtley credits the spread of the model in part to the efforts of educator unions. For example, more than a third of Black students enrolled at community colleges experience poverty, as do 28 percent of Latino students and 18 percent of white students, according to a recent report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Lozada, who is majoring in political science and minoring in economics, initially thought she’d be a lawyer, but she is now set on becoming an elected official. Their advocacy work has already begun, one high school senior at a time. “At Now, she plans to work as a health care manager in a hospital or medical center.

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JUNE 17, 2022

The post-Civil War era then ushered in the advent of “Black codes,” described as laws that “criminalized every form of African American freedom and mobility, political power, [and] economic power.” Students are forming clubs, organizing sit-ins and walk-outs, and engaging in advocacy about all sorts of issues.

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MARCH 10, 2023

“It comes down to the curriculum — being able to talk about the Black experience in class, even if it is online, in almost every field, from economics to political science.” Digital tools may not fully convey the experience of going to HBCU football games and step shows, then. But college courses?

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APRIL 8, 2024

Particularly for states like West Virginia, a state with one of the highest poverty ratings and lowest economic opportunity rating. Her advocacy has started to take on a larger role in her life: She recently accepted a position as the executive director for the West Virginia Women’s Alliance.

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JUNE 7, 2023

I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. There are millions of FFN providers.

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While attention is often paid to for-profit universities and colleges whose students sometimes end up with worthless degrees or no degrees at all, this other kind of profit-driven business has more quietly inserted itself into higher education.

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MAY 2, 2022

Former teacher Emily McMahan Teachers Are Not OK For months, advocacy groups, including the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, have been driving home the point that teachers are not OK. I didn’t have time to exercise. I didn’t have time to cook. This is not something we would do in any other profession.”

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

That experience indicates why leaders of education technology companies and investment firms are starting to see opportunity in expanding their reach into children’s earliest moments of life. Edtech Is ‘Oddly’ Nearsighted Traditionally, the education system has considered these issues separately.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

That little girl went on to study math and economics in college, then became a math teacher and a teacher-coach. Today, Joseph is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University and the director of the Joseph Mathematics Education Research Lab. So it’s advocacy that really changed my life.

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JUNE 8, 2023

Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us It’s there that he earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School. Indeed, it seems like an essential part of their advocacy. But the undocumented teens that Aguilar mentors are just that — teens.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

And an estimated 28 percent of families need child care but can’t access it, a gap that prevents some parents from working and bolstering the economic well-being of their families. Leaders at the Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children, a nonprofit advocacy group, were not making progress persuading lawmakers at the statehouse.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

We were able to get more families and children access to quality early learning, while supporting families to get back into the workforce, providing that economic benefit and the need that businesses in our community have, Jones said. That same thinking must be applied to the people you're trying to convince to vote for this.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Hed like to see the journal add more non-academic editors to its advisory board, people who are doing the work, who sit in the crossroads between policy, government advocacy, outreach to the public and engagement with the public and the academy. According to Bulaitis and Wilson, thats the plan.

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JUNE 21, 2024

Another poll earlier this year by the Small Business Majority, an advocacy organization with 85,000 members, had similar findings : A third have lost revenue and earnings because of employees’ child care challenges. In 2023, child care cost families $11,582 on average, according to Child Care Aware, a national advocacy organization.

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