Working Class Group | Opportunity America

In the wake of the 2016 election, Opportunity America convened a bipartisan study group, cosponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, to consider the challenges facing working-class communities and craft a set of policy solutions. In November 2018, the group released its final report, Work, skills, community: Restoring opportunity for the working class – a slate of bipartisan proposals to create jobs, train and retrain workers and revitalize blue-collar communities.

FINAL REPORT

Full report
Executive summary
Video

MEMBERS

Oren Cass, senior fellow, Manhattan Institute
Robert Doar, Morgridge Fellow in Poverty Studies, American Enterprise Institute
Kenneth A. Dodge, Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, professor of psychology and neuroscience, Duke University
William A. Galston, Ezra K. Zilkha Chair, Governance Studies Program, Brookings Institution
Ron Haskins, Cabot Family Chair and senior fellow, economic studies, Brookings Institution
Tamar Jacoby, president, Opportunity America
Anne Kim, senior fellow, director of domestic and social policy, Progressive Policy Institute
Lawrence M. Mead, professor of politics and public policy, New York University
Bruce Reed, co-chair, Future of Work Initiative, Aspen Institute
Isabel V. Sawhill, senior fellow, economic studies, Brookings Institution
Ryan Streeter, director, domestic policy studies, American Enterprise Institute
Abel Valenzuela, professor of Chicano studies and urban planning, director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California, Los Angeles
W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology, University of Virginia

FINAL REPORT

MEMBERS

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