Articles by Jen Mishory
What “Risk Aversion” Gets Wrong About the Racial Wealth Gap
This socioeconomic model only explains about 10 percent of risk willingness. However, the race model only explains 1 percent. Black and Latinx respondents were less likely to have above-average and average risk willingness than White respondents, but Black respondents were also less likely to be risk averse than White respondents. The descriptive statistics and regression models above demonstrate that risk willingness is not simply a factor of race, but also one of socioeconomic status.
Employer-Provided Tuition Benefit Programs: Is Guild As Good As It Gets?
To attract and retain workers in today’s tight labor market, the largest employers in the United States have turned to promoting college tuition and education benefits. In 2021, Amazon announced a plan to revamp its college benefit program, with perhaps the most impactful feature being that Amazon will directly pay its contracted education providers rather than requiring its employees to request a reimbursement after paying out of their own pockets.
College Affordability Challenges Facing Youth with Experience in Foster Care
Foster youth are often an afterthought when it comes to making state and federal policies. Disenfranchised members of society by no fault of their own, children in foster care face extraordinary challenges when making the transition into adulthood—with getting into and paying for college being one of the most daunting. Unfortunately, the data, research, and policy approaches toward ensuring that foster youth can access higher education and achieve their full potential have all fallen short.
City Garden Montessori School
Every student who arrives during morning drop-off at City Garden Montessori School is greeted by staff members with a “good morning,” smiles, and hugs. The children and the adults have an easy rapport, asking each other questions about their plans for the day or excitedly sharing news about an upcoming trip.
Obama-era Rule Banning Mandatory Arbitration in College Contracts Carries the Day
Mandatory pre-dispute arbitration clauses in college enrollment contracts have historically been commonplace at for-profit institutions—a consumer protection challenge that not only makes it difficult for wronged consumers to successfully obtain relief, but also prevents the government from determining, among other things, if any school is routinely defrauding consumers.
Trump’s Lost Wage Assistance Program No Substitute for Federal Unemployment Benefits
On Saturday August 8—one day after his self-imposed deadline to negotiate a new pandemic relief bill with Congress—President Trump announced an executive action that he claimed would temporarily replace $600-per-week Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) benefit with a $400 week payment diverted from existing FEMA funds. But a week after this announcement, it is clear that this new program, called Lost Wages Assistance (LWA), is no substitute for the congressionally mandated FPUC.
Change policies, make Michigan colleges affordable for people of all backgrounds
The COVID-19 pandemic has already impacted public higher education institutions, with many community colleges and four-year schools recording significant revenue losses. In Michigan alone, the state’s public universities reported to the Legislature recently that they anticipate a loss of at least $1.5 billion in revenue over this fiscal year and next.
Bridging Progressive Policy Debates: How Student Debt and the Racial Wealth Gap Reinforce Each Other
The $1.6 trillion student debt crisis is holding back many Americans, but it is especially damaging to racial equality. Already disadvantaged by generational wealth disparities, Black students and their families end up paying more for college than white families do, and they get a lot less in the end. To build a higher education system that fosters equality, it’s necessary to bring together two policy conversations: research on higher education access and research on the racial wealth gap.
14 Progressive Priorities for the New Congress
When the 116th Congress is seated, it presents a new opportunity for the country to tackle some of the nation’s most pressing public policy challenges, from unprecedented levels of income and wealth inequality, to rising racial segregation in our school system, to the tens of millions of Americans who still lack quality health care. Below, we have outlined over a dozen decisive actions Congress should take in the new Congress.
Civic NationVoice: Two Rules For State Legislators Debating Free College
Jen Mishory, a senior fellow and senior policy advisor at The Century Foundation working on issues related to workforce and higher education, is a guest contributor for the College Promise Campaign One of the fastest-moving higher education debates in state legislatures centers around whether to create a “free college” program.
Family care needs an upgrade: Millennials are the new 'sandwich generation'
Millennials officially became the nation’s largest generation last year, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. These energetic, digital natives are influencing everything from how we work to how we communicate. But life isn’t exactly a bed of roses as they come into their own as young adults. This generation earns lower incomes, is less likely to own a home, and has lower net wealth than their parents’ generation at the same stage in life.
Jefferson County Public Schools: From Legal Enforcement to Ongoing Commitment
Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) has a large geographic area and a diverse populace to draw upon for system-wide school diversity efforts. The division comprises one-seventh of all students in Kentucky public schools and is the 28th largest school district in the country.
Increasing Need-Based Aid Doesn't Drive Up Tuition at Public Colleges
Thirty years ago, then Secretary of Education William Bennett wrote a brief op-ed speculating that increasing financial aid could lead colleges to increase tuition. Despite decades of research showing that boosting need-based aid does not impact public college tuition, the theory continues to pop up. Recent suggestions that plans like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's to make public college tuition-free for most families could spike tuition represent just the latest example.
Opinion: How millennials find success through struggle
As a millennial myself, and especially as the executive director of an organization that researches about and advocates for millennials, I get asked almost daily about the key traits that define the largest and most diverse generation in American history.
(Opinion) millennials earn success with struggle
As a millennial myself, and especially as the executive director of an organization that researches about and advocates for millennials, I get asked almost daily about the key traits that define the largest and most diverse generation in American history.
Student Debt And Poor Savings Hold Back Millennial Entrepreneurs
Youth unemployment has fallen significantly over the last two years, but many young workers continue to face strong headwinds to achieving economic security. Wages have declined roughly twice as fast for younger workers as they have for workers over the age of 35, and high unemployment has driven more millennials to find work in industries that routinely fail to set workers up for careers.
(Opinion) millennials earn success with struggle
As a millennial myself, and especially as the executive director of an organization that researches about and advocates for millennials, I get asked almost daily about the key traits that define the largest and most diverse generation in American history.
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