Writing
the regulatory review,
september 2021
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Modernizing SNAP After the Pandemic
The pandemic highlighted the importance of food security and what policymakers should do to strengthen it.
FORBES, AUGUST 2021
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Speaker Pelosi Gets High Marks On Student Debt Forgiveness
Many Americans are burdened with high levels of student debt and the cost of going to college has soared beyond reason.
Progressive policy institute, June 2021
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Reimagining SNAP After the Pandemic
The coming months present the Biden administration with an opportunity to rethink the structure and role of SNAP, our country’s largest anti-hunger program, to better address food insecurity in the United States. During the pandemic, policymakers eased rules around eligibility and access to make it easier to prevent widespread hunger resulting from the economic toll of the pandemic.
Newsweek, April 2021
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Let's Multiply Non-College Career Pathways for Young Americans | Opinion
Our education system should aim to provide more graduating high school students with the options that Kathryn had—to either pursue a college education or to start working with the prospect of a successful career.
NEWSWEEK, AUGUST 2021
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The Reconciliation Bill Should Invest in America's Kids
As Congress makes progress on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, Democrats turn their attention to the sizable $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. The bill includes major pieces of President Biden's Build Back Better platform and the American Families and Jobs Plans.
GOVERNING, June 2021
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Driver’s License Suspensions and the Debt Trap
Taking away a license over unpaid fines for minor traffic infractions makes work and family life a misery for low-income Americans. States should reform this punitive, unjust practice.
Harvard Law/UCLA Law On Food Law, March 2021
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How to Feed America Better Post-Covid
There is more work to be done to make our federal anti-hunger policy more resilient going forward for the next crisis, and to address the structural barriers to food affordability and access.
The Hill, JULY 2021
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As talks on infrastructure continue, Congress must invest in the workers who will build it
As talks on a bipartisan infrastructure deal continue, it’s critical to our country’s ongoing economic recovery that workforce development funding – specifically the $100 billion set aside in the American Jobs Plan – not be sidelined.
The Hill, may 2021
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Women really can have it all: Here's how government can help
Passing long overdue family-friendly programs would make it easier for women to have both the careers and families they desire. While no woman should be expected to have children because “it’s good for the economy,” they should be empowered to build the family and career they choose.
The Hill, March 2021
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To Build Back Better, Biden must invest in modern apprenticeship system
America needs to go big on investing in a modern apprenticeship system built for the needs of our 21st century workforce.
Progressive policy institute, april 2021
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Preventing Failure to Launch: Creating More School-to-Work Pathways for Young Adults
Today’s high school students and young adults face a difficult job market. The Covid pandemic has been particularly hard on less educated workers without a college degree. The 10 million jobs lost by Americans at the pandemic’s onset disproportionally impacted young adults between the ages of 16 and 24, and especially Black and Hispanic workers. Some estimate that as many as 25 percent of our youth will neither be in school nor working when the pandemic ends.
progressive policy institute, february 2021
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Hunger in America: A Comprehensive Federal Response
This policy brief highlights recent developments in the federal response to the hunger crisis resulting from the Covid pandemic and recession. It discusses the valuable policies contained in President Biden’s recent executive orders and the proposed American Rescue Plan legislation, and also identifies additional policies to address hunger, including reducing concentration in the food industry, using modern information technologies to help low-income Americans cut through siloed bureaucratic obstacles, and expanding food aid for low-income children.
the hill, february 2021
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The progressive way to slash child poverty
It’s no surprise that policymakers in both parties are prioritizing child poverty. As many as one in seven children, or close to 11 million, are poor. The United States consistently has among the highest levels of child poverty among the world’s wealthiest countries, many of which offer so-called “child allowances” to support low-income parents.
progressive policy institute, january 2021
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Memo to President Biden: The Progressive Way to Ease Student Debt Burdens
While campaigning for the presidency last spring, Biden unveiled a plan to forgive a minimum of $10,000 per borrower. The President’s advisers say the administration will submit a legislative proposal for debt relief to the new Congress.
medium, august 2020
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Teaching kids about economics in a pandemic
I’d like to suggest a less obvious opportunity to add the dismal science to the curriculum and teach kids about how economics can be a useful lens to understand life in this pandemic.
Johns hopkins university, april 2016
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Paid Family Leave in the United States
This memorandum gives a background on economic trends in the latter half of the twentieth century to today that have changed the demographics of American families, including the rise of dual earner households and women’s labor force participation. With that history as a backdrop, this Capstone delves into the issue of family leave as a critical policy in accommodating working families and presents evidence on the social, political, and economic costs and benefits of paid family leave, including a review of the current states which mandate such programs for employees, and provides a policy path forward toward a national paid family leave program with specific recommendations.
the wall street journal, january 2012
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Rethinking Safety in Delhi
Something has gone fundamentally awry in the fabric of a city when reoccurring headlines of “rape,” “dowry killing” and other gender-based violence are treated as banalities, acknowledged with cursory glances. It’s no surprise, then, that when you broach the topic of public safety with a woman in Delhi, she will likely launch into a litany of horrifying stories ranging from street harassment to rape.
the wall street journal, december 2011
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Where Are India’s Working Women?
In India, the workplace continues to be a male-dominated space. What can be done to fix this?
the wall street journal, november 2011
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Women’s Health and Survival
In India, the state of maternal and women’s health is die. What can be done to fix this?
the wall street journal, october 2011
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Why Calls for a Cleaner Delhi Aren't Working
We've all seen the "Clean Delhi Green Delhi" signs posted around the city. Yet large parts of Delhi are anything but that.