Podcasts about opportunity america

Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, sits down with James M. Lindsay upon completing two decades leading CFR to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the United States.   Mentioned on the Podcast   Richard Haass, A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order   Richard Haass, Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order   Richard Haass, The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens   Richard Haass, The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization   Richard Haass, “The Dangerous Decade: A Foreign Policy for a World in Crisis,” Foreign Affairs   Richard Haass, The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course   Richard Haass, The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War   Richard Haass, The World: A Brief Introduction   Richard Haass, War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars   Michael Mandelbaum, “Foreign Policy as Social Work,” Foreign Affairs   Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/future-us-foreign-policy-richard-haass 

Giselle, Iulia, and Dalibor are joined by Tamar Jacoby, President of Opportunity America who is currently living in Krakow, Poland to document the Ukrainian refugee crisis in Poland. Tamar discusses her book “Displaced: Ukrainian Refugee Experience” which chronicles the stories of 43 Ukrainian refugees living in Poland. From her firsthand interviews and experiences, she offers insights into the flow of Ukrainian refugees in and out of Poland; how Poland's educational system is managing the influx of Ukrainian students; and the role of civil society and NGOs in supporting and resettling refugees. Shining a light on individuals affected by the war, she shares powerful stories from several Ukrainian refugees she has interviewed and developed relationships with who have encountered innumerable challenges, faced great suffering, yet demonstrated inspiring resilience since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Show notes: "https://www.amazon.com/Displaced-Ukrainian-Experience-Tamar-Jacoby/dp/B0BCWB9X5L (Displaced: The Ukrainian Refugee Experience)" by Tamar Jacoby "https://www.wsj.com/articles/polands-schools-welcome-ukraines-children-11663855000 (Poland's Schools Welcome Ukraine's Children)" by Tamar Jacoby Sign up for The Eastern Front's biweekly newsletter https://www.aei.org/the-eastern-front-podcast/ (here)

Minnesota Public Radio Indivisible Radio examined America in transition, during President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office. This week's Big Books and Bold Ideas features a conversation with historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez about her new book, “Bad Mexicans.” It tells the dramatic and often overlooked story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States, and how their escapades threatened to undo the rise of Anglo-American power, on both sides of the border, and created the world of fraught immigration we live in today. To prepare for that discussion, here's a selection from the archives — a 2017 “Indivisible” conversation Miller had with Eboo Patel and Tamar Jacoby that examines how America's history as a land of immigrants can be maintained under then President Trump's divisive immigration policies. Guests: Eboo Patel is the founder and president of Interfaith America (formerly Interfaith Youth Core) and the author of several books, including “We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy.” Tamar Jacoby is currently the president of Opportunity America. At the time of this recording, she was president and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA. She is also the author of several books, including “Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means To Be American.” Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or RSS. Subscribe to the Thread newsletter for the latest book and author news and must-read recommendations. 

每日英語跟讀 Ep.K029: How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?   Marriage, which used to be the default way to form a family in the United States, regardless of income or education, has become yet another part of American life reserved for those who are most privileged. Fewer Americans are marrying overall, and whether they do so is more tied to socioeconomic status than ever before. In recent years, marriage has sharply declined among people without college degrees, while staying steady among college graduates with higher incomes. 結婚曾經是美國人組織家庭想當然的方法，與個人收入多寡或教育程度無關，如今卻已成為美國人生活中保留給享有最大優勢者的另一個部分。 整體而言，結婚的美國人變少了，而且是否結婚也比以往任何時候，更與社會經濟地位息息相關。近幾年，沒有大學學位者結婚率銳減，收入較高的大學畢業生結婚率則維持穩定。 Currently, 26 percent of poor adults, 39 percent of working-class adults and 56 percent of middle- and upper-class adults are married, according to a research brief published from two think tanks, the American Enterprise Institute and Opportunity America. In 1990, more than half of adults were married, with much less difference based on class and education: 51 percent of poor adults, 57 percent of working-class adults and 65 percent of middle- and upper-class adults were married. 根據兩家智庫「美國企業研究所」和「機會美國」公布的研究報告摘要，現今，26％的貧窮成人，39％的工人階級成人，以及56％的中產與上層階級成人屬於已婚族。 1990年，成人中已婚者超過半數，而且階級和教育造成的差異也小得多：51％的窮人，57％的工人階級和65％的中產和上層階級成人已婚。 A big reason for the decline: Unemployed men are less likely to be seen as marriage material. “Women don't want to take a risk on somebody who's not going to be able to provide anything,” said Sharon Sassler, a sociologist at Cornell who published “Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships” with Amanda Jayne Miller last month. 結婚率下降的一大原因：失業男性較不可能被看待成結婚的對象。 康乃爾大學社會學家雪倫．沙斯勒說：「女性不想在無法提供任何東西的男人身上冒險。」上個月，沙斯勒和亞曼達．珍．米勒共同出版了《同居國度：性別、階級，與關係重塑》一書。 As marriage has declined, though, childbearing has not, which means that more children are living in families without two parents and the resources they bring. “The sharpest distinction in American family life is between people with a bachelor's or not,” said Andrew Cherlin, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins and author of “Labor's Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America.” 儘管如此，在結婚率降低之際，生育率卻未見下降，意謂有更多的兒童是在非雙親，也沒有他們所帶來的資源的家庭中生活。 約翰霍普金斯大學社會學家安德魯．契林說：「造成美國家庭生活最大差距的，是人們是否擁有大學學歷。」契林著有《勞工失去的愛：美國工人階級家庭的興衰》一書。 Just over half of adolescents in poor and working-class homes live with both their biological parents, compared with 77 percent in middle- and upper-class homes, according to the research brief, by W. Bradford Wilcox and Wendy Wang of the Institute for Family Studies. Thirty-six percent of children born to a working-class mother are born out of wedlock, versus 13 percent of those born to middle- and upper-class mothers. The research brief defined “working class” as adults with an adjusted family income between the 20th and 50th percentiles, with high school diplomas but not bachelor's degrees. Poor is defined as those below the 20th percentile or without high school diplomas, and the middle and upper class as those above the 50th percentile or with college degrees. 據「家庭研究中心」Ｗ．布萊德福．威爾科克斯與溫蒂．王所做的研究摘要，與生身父母共同生活的青少年，在貧窮工人階級中略超過50%，中產與上層階級有77%。工人階級母親所生的孩子，有36%非婚生，中產、上層階級則為13%。 研究摘要的「工人階級」定義為調整後家庭收入介於第20到第50百分位之間，有高中文憑但無大學學歷的成人，中產和上層階級的定義則是高於第50百分位，或有大學學歷的成人。 Source article: https://paper.udn.com/udnpaper/POH0067/319374/web/   每日英語跟讀Podcast，就在http://www.15mins.today/daily-shadowing 每週Vocab精選詞彙Podcast，就在https://www.15mins.today/vocab 每週In-TENSE文法練習Podcast，就在https://www.15mins.today/in-tense   用email訂閱就可以收到通勤學英語節目更新通知。

Workplace change, once thought to take a decade or more, became reality during the COVID-19 economic dislocation, Tamar Jacoby, president of Opportunity America, tells Dallas Fed Senior Economist Pia Orrenius.

Tamar Jacoby is president of Opportunity America, a Washington-based nonprofit working to promote economic mobility – work, skills, careers, ownership and entrepreneurship for poor and working Americans. This interview chronicles her career, starting as a journalist as the deputy editor of The New York Times op-ed page and senior writer and justice editor at Newsweek and later as an author of several books, including the highly noted “Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration.” The interview covers her work on immigration reform, including her efforts to negotiate a legislative solution to the problem. Her subsequent emphasis on workforce issues has included work on community colleges apprenticeship and other strategies for widening opportunity in America.

Carl Jackson guest hosts for Dennis… Carl reflects on his upbringing and the positive messages he got from his teachers. He compares that to the messages black kids are getting now from their teachers… Is what is happening on the southern border the new “slave trade”? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join TPPF’s Erin Davis Valdez and Tamar Jacoby, the leading researcher at Opportunity America, as they dive into recent research on the success of Kentucky’s FAME apprenticeship program.

每日英語跟讀 Ep.K029: How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?   Marriage, which used to be the default way to form a family in the United States, regardless of income or education, has become yet another part of American life reserved for those who are most privileged. Fewer Americans are marrying overall, and whether they do so is more tied to socioeconomic status than ever before. In recent years, marriage has sharply declined among people without college degrees, while staying steady among college graduates with higher incomes. 結婚曾經是美國人組織家庭想當然的方法，與個人收入多寡或教育程度無關，如今卻已成為美國人生活中保留給享有最大優勢者的另一個部分。 整體而言，結婚的美國人變少了，而且是否結婚也比以往任何時候，更與社會經濟地位息息相關。近幾年，沒有大學學位者結婚率銳減，收入較高的大學畢業生結婚率則維持穩定。 Currently, 26 percent of poor adults, 39 percent of working-class adults and 56 percent of middle- and upper-class adults are married, according to a research brief published from two think tanks, the American Enterprise Institute and Opportunity America. In 1990, more than half of adults were married, with much less difference based on class and education: 51 percent of poor adults, 57 percent of working-class adults and 65 percent of middle- and upper-class adults were married. 根據兩家智庫「美國企業研究所」和「機會美國」公布的研究報告摘要，現今，26％的貧窮成人，39％的工人階級成人，以及56％的中產與上層階級成人屬於已婚族。 1990年，成人中已婚者超過半數，而且階級和教育造成的差異也小得多：51％的窮人，57％的工人階級和65％的中產和上層階級成人已婚。 A big reason for the decline: Unemployed men are less likely to be seen as marriage material. “Women don't want to take a risk on somebody who's not going to be able to provide anything,” said Sharon Sassler, a sociologist at Cornell who published “Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships” with Amanda Jayne Miller last month. 結婚率下降的一大原因：失業男性較不可能被看待成結婚的對象。 康乃爾大學社會學家雪倫．沙斯勒說：「女性不想在無法提供任何東西的男人身上冒險。」上個月，沙斯勒和亞曼達．珍．米勒共同出版了《同居國度：性別、階級，與關係重塑》一書。 As marriage has declined, though, childbearing has not, which means that more children are living in families without two parents and the resources they bring. “The sharpest distinction in American family life is between people with a bachelor's or not,” said Andrew Cherlin, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins and author of “Labor's Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America.” 儘管如此，在結婚率降低之際，生育率卻未見下降，意謂有更多的兒童是在非雙親，也沒有他們所帶來的資源的家庭中生活。 約翰霍普金斯大學社會學家安德魯．契林說：「造成美國家庭生活最大差距的，是人們是否擁有大學學歷。」契林著有《勞工失去的愛：美國工人階級家庭的興衰》一書。 Just over half of adolescents in poor and working-class homes live with both their biological parents, compared with 77 percent in middle- and upper-class homes, according to the research brief, by W. Bradford Wilcox and Wendy Wang of the Institute for Family Studies. Thirty-six percent of children born to a working-class mother are born out of wedlock, versus 13 percent of those born to middle- and upper-class mothers. The research brief defined “working class” as adults with an adjusted family income between the 20th and 50th percentiles, with high school diplomas but not bachelor's degrees. Poor is defined as those below the 20th percentile or without high school diplomas, and the middle and upper class as those above the 50th percentile or with college degrees. 據「家庭研究中心」Ｗ．布萊德福．威爾科克斯與溫蒂．王所做的研究摘要，與生身父母共同生活的青少年，在貧窮工人階級中略超過50%，中產與上層階級有77%。工人階級母親所生的孩子，有36%非婚生，中產、上層階級則為13%。 研究摘要的「工人階級」定義為調整後家庭收入介於第20到第50百分位之間，有高中文憑但無大學學歷的成人，中產和上層階級的定義則是高於第50百分位，或有大學學歷的成人。 Source article: https://paper.udn.com/udnpaper/POH0067/319374/web/   每日英語跟讀Podcast，就在http://www.15mins.today/daily-shadowing 每週Vocab精選詞彙Podcast，就在https://www.15mins.today/vocab 每週In-TENSE文法練習Podcast，就在https://www.15mins.today/in-tense   用email訂閱就可以收到通勤學英語節目更新通知。

On this episode of In The Know, I spoke with Tamar Jacoby, President and CEO of Opportunity America. We spoke about Opportunity America’s national survey, currently underway, to profile noncredit workforce programs at community college. We discussed the survey’s early results, and how community colleges can get involved if they haven’t already participated.  For more information on Opportunity America and survey participation, please visit the Opportunity America website. 

Every beginning starts with an ending. This is one of the principles of Pendulum theory. And the middle is always in the middle. When our fight with King George ended in 1783, thirteen powerless colonies became “The United States.” This was the beginning of the first America; 3 million citizens clinging to the eastern edge of a vast, uncharted wilderness. Truly, “a land of opportunity.” Eighty years later – 1863 – we were in the middle of a war between ourselves. (1861-1865) And July 2nd of that year – the middle day in the 3-day Battle of Gettysburg – was also the middle day of the middle year in our 5-year Civil War. Fourteen years after the Civil War ended, Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington headed west to capture the ending of the Wild West. Their paintings and sculptures of those ending days now sell for millions of dollars. Nineteen years after Charlie and Fred headed West, https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/progressivism/ (Teddy Roosevelt) led his “rough riders” up a hill during the Spanish-American War. His arrival on that hilltop signaled the end of the Wild West, the end of the Spanish Empire, and the end of the first America.1 As I said earlier, every beginning starts with an ending.The second America began when Teddy became President in 1901. This second America was a land of progress and achievement, a World Power, a country of cars and department stores and Coca-Cola, electric lights, running water, and houses everywhere. Do you remember when Whitney Houston sang, “I Wanna Dance with Somebody”? America's memory of the Civil War was more recent than that when they elected Teddy Roosevelt. One of Teddy's first official actions was to invite Booker T. Washington, a black educator, to dinner at the White House. White-hot rage was ignited across the South. According to historian Deborah Davis, “There was hell to pay… This story did not go away. An assassin was hired to go to Tuskegee to kill Booker T. Washington. He was pursued wherever he went… There were vulgar cartoons of Mrs. Roosevelt that had never been done before.” The Revolutionary War ended and the first America began: Opportunity America. One hundred and twelve years later – 1901 – the second America began: Achievement America. One hundred and twelve years later – 2013 – the third America began: Virtual America, a “sharing economy” featuring virtual ownership, (Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit) virtual currency, (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin) virtual reality. (Facebook, Twitter, TikTok) 2013 was also the halfway point in the upswing of society's pendulum toward the zenith of our current “We” cycle. The halfway point is where we begin to take a good thing too far. In 2013 we shifted from “fighting together for the common good” to simply “fighting together.” Western Civilization2 has done this every 80 years for the past 3 millennia. I wrote at length about it in https://smile.amazon.com/Pendulum-Generations-Present-Williams-2012-10-02/dp/B01LP466GG/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3C4JZB95AWFYE&dchild=1&keywords=pendulum+roy+williams&qid=1605625725&sprefix=Pendulum+roy%2Caps%2C186&sr=8-2 (Pendulum) several years ago: 1783 marked the ending of our Revolutionary War.1783 was the zenith of a “We.”80 years later… 1863 marked the middle of our Civil War. 1863 was the zenith of a “We.” 80 years later… 1943 marked the middle of WWII. 1943 was the zenith of a “We.” 80 years later… 2023 will mark the zenith of our current “We.” I wonder what we'll be in the middle of then? Roy H. Williams 1 the America of George W. and Thomas J. and Benjamin F. and Samuel Adams, the patron saint of beer.  2 Western Civilization began 3,000 years ago in Israel and Persia, then expanded to ancient Greece, then to Rome, then to Britain who took it to North America and Australia.

We are kicking off our lead up to next week's Future of Work Conference on Thursday Nov. 12th from 9am-11am PST with a compelling, in-depth and rich conversation with Tamar Jacoby, the Founder and president of Washington D.C's non-profit, Opportunity America. It is a think tank and research shop that focuses on workforce education. Tamar Jacoby expresses how she wanted to be a "Part of the train wreck rather than write about it” as her background was in journalism before she created this non-profit to lean in further in finding solutions for the problems she cares so much about. And when it comes to the future of our workforce, she tells us that community colleges are definitely part of that solution.  Don't miss Tamar Jacoby LIVE along with many other workforce leaders at our free virtual event The Future of Work Conference Nov. 12th. You can register here: https://pasadena.edu/news-and-events/events/future-of-work.php More from Tamar Jacoby: Visit the website: www.opportunityonlineamerica.org Connect on LinkedIn Find the transcript to this episode here To connect with us about the podcast visit our website Please be sure to subscribe, rate and review us on apple podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts!

The US is facing a tsunami of demand for skills training and job placement. Its 1,100 community and technical colleges offer the best institutional infrastructure and student support for the task, but key reforms are needed. So argues The Indispensable Institution: Reimagining Community College, a June 2020 report from nonprofit Opportunity America. The group’s president, Tamar Jacoby, discusses the report’s findings, which stress the need for better workforce development.

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, joins us to discuss "common good capitalism Co-hosted by Josiah Neeley of R Street Institute and Doug McCullough of Lone Star Policy Institute. Produced by Braden McCullough. Notes: We mention the "Work, Skills, Community" study by AEI, Brookings Institute and Opportunity America. Here is the link: https://opportunityamericaonline.org/wcg/

Tamar Jacoby, President of Opportunity America, and Anne Kim, Vice President of Domestic Policy at The Progressive Policy Institute, join the program to discuss the 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.

Some of America’s think tanks are bravely crossing the ideological divide, and working together to come up with what they hope will be some innovative policy solutions. ‘Opportunity America’, a small centre right think tank which focusses on economic mobility, has convened a report on policies for America's working class, bringing together researchers from Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute.

Dan is joined by Agnes Dasewicz, Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation and former Director of the Office of Private Capital and Microenterprise at USAID. Her career has spanned over 20 years in development finance, working at SEAF, AIG, and IFC at different points. In this episode, Dan and Agnes discuss the beginning of career working in private capital in emerging markets in Eastern Europe. During her time at USAID, Agnes helped secure over $20 billion of investment commitments from U.S. and African financiers in support of Power Africa. Agnes is now working on a project called “Opportunity America” which focuses on opportunities to create and finance sustainable infrastructure and economic growth in the poorer parts of the United States. To hear more from Agnes, watch her recent exit interview at CSIS.