Jonathan Cohn’s recent article for The New Republic highlighted the tragic outcomes stemming from our inadequate, unequal, and largely unregulated child care system. Stressed by workplace demands and constrained by a dearth of good daycare options, families face difficult decisions. Many child care workers are poorly compensated and inadequately trained, and most workplaces are not set up to support parents desperate for better options.

In the Denver suburbs, as in much of the U.S., the Great Recession has turned formerly financially stable families into the new homeless—and left many living in budget hotels where they pay for their rooms by the week. They call themselves “the weeklies,” and senior writer Monica Potts chronicles their experiences in the latest issue of The American Prospect.

A Breakfast Policy Forum Sponsored by the Corporation for Enterprise Development

A potential push on tax reform offers Congress a chance to solve one of the biggest threats to Americans’ financial security: the lack of household savings. Nearly half of American households lack the cash savings to weather a sudden financial crisis, such as an accident or a job loss.

**Please note that this event will be held at the Russell Senate Building.**

Please join the New America Foundation, the National Community Tax Coalition, and other partners for a briefing about the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) just before National EITC Awareness Day.