The State budget for college education has been cut, leading to higher tuition fees. This reports various ways to make higher education debt free in the state.

Quality preschool improves children’s educational outcomes into the elementary grades. Good programs with wraparound childcare anchor family financial stability today by enabling parents to work. Yet too few Cincinnati children have access to a good preschool or any preschool at all. A levy on this November’s ballot seeks to change that by adding new local funding source to available resources for both preschool and K-12 education.

This report evaluates the kids count program in Michigan which has tracked children's education, health, personal information since 1992. The report finds kids who expereience disparities continue to grade lowere on reading and math. They find the child poverty rate is decresing,but the cost of childcare is high and remains a challenge. The report highlights the need for greater funding for healthcare and education for children.

This report summarizes key opportunities and barriers for Boys and Men of Color(BMoC) in allied health professions. Through a literature review and interviews with key stakeholders, we have identified three areas — public K-12 education, the juvenile justice system, and men’s health — that have significant impacts. By coordinating state and regional efforts, California can increase the diversity of its health sector while simultaneously creating a viable solution to chronic unemployment in communities of color. Recommendations include: (1) Creating a trust fund for sustained, long-term funding for linked-learning pathway programs for BMoC; (2) Creating industry buy-in to support linked-learning pathway programs in partnership with hospitals, health insurance providers, and health clinics; (3) Adjusting employment law to assess criminal background information on an individual basis, rather than being a blanket barrier to employment; (4) Creating targeted hiring agreements with local governments and health sector employers to encourage BMoC employment, and (5) Attending to the physical, emotional, and mental health of BMoC in employment and linked-learning programs.

This report finds that girls of color are more likely to be suspended from school. This results in them losing interest in class, lower grades, behavior problems, mistrust of adults, and increased risk of ending up in the juvenile justice system.

The incomes of teen workers is important to family income. Low funding for higher education, higher tuition fees, and increasing student debt is making teen income more important. The state should provide consistent funding for youth workers.

As productivity continues to rise wages remain stagnant. This report finds that if gateway cities increase incomes, other cities will increase too.

As productivity continues to rise wages remain stagnant. This report finds that if gateway cities increase incomes, other cities will increase too.

More adult education services, which is a crucial link to postsecondary education and gainful employment, is needed. Adult education should fit family and work schedule. However, Michigan underestimate the advantages of adult education and cutes the funding of it. The government should increase the funding, provide a better education environment, and make it a pathway to economic security.

This policy brief examines several case studies depicting how school districts have aligned diverse state and federal funding to increase the quality and capacity of after school programs.