
By Dr. Philip M. Dodd-Nufrio, Professor, Metropolitan College of New York
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By Roseanne Mirabella, Seton Hall University; Heather Carpenter, Notre Dame of Maryland; Norman Dolch, University of North Texas; Helen Wise, Louisiana State University at Shreveport; Timothy Hoffman, Seton Hall University
A government that works for all can emerge from the pandemic through government intervention in, and support of, communities

By Dr. Lessie Branch, Associate Professor, Metropolitan College of New York
The key to criminal justice and social equity reform is to change our thinking and our narratives.

By Dr. Philip M. Dodd-Nufrio, Professor, Metropolitan College of New York
There is an immediacy not only to create good new jobs but to save existing ones.

By Lovely Warren, Mayor of Rochester, New York
If we want to build a society that affords equal opportunity to the American dream regardless of race, government needs to take an active role in building new systems and lifting up the people it represents.

By Charles M. Elson, Director, University of Delaware's John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance
If you are accountable to everyone, then you are accountable to no one. Even a broken watch gets the time right twice a day.

by Aaron Klein, Policy Director, Center on Regulation and Markets
The purpose of the financial and payment systems are to empower people to live life more smoothly, not to turn small bumps into giant craters.

By Melody C. Barnes, Co-Founder & Principal, MBSquared Solutions
With empowered communities, and smarter policies and partnerships, we can make better choices that grow and strengthen the middle class.

By Rose Marcario, President and CEO, Patagonia
We must address the climate crisis not only as an environmental problem, but as an economic opportunity.

by Laura W. Perna, Executive Director, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy, University of Pennsylvania
To ensure a growing and thriving middle class, we must not only raise the educational attainment of the nation's population. We must also reduce the differences in attainment that persist across groups.

by Maria P. Aristigueta, Director, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy & Administration
There are promising policy solutions that could be implemented that would change circumstances and create a robust, financially-stable, true middle class of Americans.

by Tim Danos, Urban Affairs and Public Policy PhD Student, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration
At vital times in US history, access to higher education has opened doors economically, politically, and socially for many Americans.

by Pablo I. McConnie-Saad, Biden Institute Whittington Fellow and Urban Affairs and Public Policy PhD Student, University of Delaware
The economy is structured in a way that no longer allows for the sort of upward mobility that once made the middle class a measure for success in America.

by Heather Getha-Taylor, Associate Professor, University of Kansas School of Public Affairs and Administration
To effectively address issues like this, we need two lenses: public policy and public management.

by President Joe Biden, Founding Chairman, Biden Institute
Vice President Biden authored a blog on how the urgent need to revitalize the middle class

by Jos C.N. Raadschelders, Professor and Associate Dean, John Glenn College of Public Affairs
The study of public administration can be instrumental in the effort to support the Biden Challenge.

by Betsey Suchanic, Master of Public Administration (MPA) Student, University of Delaware
If we expect the middle class to be comfortable, we need to address how expensive it is to be poor.

by Stephanie Hoopes and Dan Treglia United Way ALICE Project
ALICE stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed and it largely defines those households that make too much to be considered in poverty but cannot make ends meet.
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