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In spring 2022, Opportunity America’s president traveled to Eastern Europe to provide humanitarian relief for refugees and report on the war in Ukraine.

THE WAR IN UKRAINE

A new survey by Opportunity America, Lumina Foundation and Wilder Research explores how community and technical colleges are innovating to keep up with a changing workplace.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE SURVEY

The best way to regulate for-profit colleges is with greater accountability for all institutions, regardless of their business model.

FINDING THE MIDDLE GROUND ON FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES

COMMUNITY
COLLEGES &
THE FUTURE
OF WORK

SOLUTIONS
FOR THE
WORKING CLASS

The Opportunity America Jobs and Careers Coalition works to advocate a skills agenda on Capitol Hill, bringing the employer voice to bear on a range of issues – recently apprenticeship, workforce Pell and increased appropriations for career education.

A SKILL AGENDA

With this interactive game, you’ll walk in the shoes of a new apprentice learning the ropes.

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WHERE COULD APPRENTICESHIP
TAKE YOU?

WHO WE ARE

Opportunity America is a Washington think tank and policy shop promoting economic mobility – work, skills, careers, ownership and entrepreneurship for poor and working Americans.

Restoring robust economic mobility is among the most urgent challenges facing the nation today. Our current approach dates back more than 50 years to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty – a strategy that made a difference in its day but is no longer enough.

What’s needed is a new conversation: a new vocabulary, new voices from new places on the political spectrum, a new broader climate of concern – and a new national push to enhance opportunity.

Opportunity America is devoted to filling this gap, funneling ideas into the policy process and building consensus around a new agenda.

The organization’s principal activities are research, policy development, dissemination of policy ideas and working to build consensus around policy proposals.

PUBLICATIONS

Unlocking the future: Toward a new reform agenda for K-12 education - Opportunity America, February 2023

The indispensable institution: Taking the measure of community college workforce education - Opportunity America, September 2021

Accountability in higher education: For-profit colleges and beyond - Opportunity America, December 2021

Community colleges are an agile new player in job training - Wall Street Journal, 9-23-21

EVENTS

Unlocking the future: Toward a new reform agenda for K-12 education - Virtual release of the Opportunity America report on new reform agenda for K-12 education , 2-16-23

The indispensable institution: Taking the measure of community college workforce education - Virtual release of the Opportunity America community college survey, 9-14-21

Today’s students, tomorrow’s workforce: A roadmap for change at CUNY community colleges - Virtual release of Opportunity America report on the City University of New York, 9-20-21

Kentucky FAME: Fulfilling the promise of apprenticeship - Virtual release of Opportunity America-Brookings report on the Kentucky FAME apprenticeship program, 10-19-20