Photojournalist Chris Arnade presents his striking photos of 'forgotten America,' illuminating profound gaps between the reality experienced by millions of struggling Americans and policy discussions in Washington, DC.

Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election illuminated growing political, economic, and cultural polarization in America. The work of photojournalist Chris Arnade provides valuable insight into the everyday experiences of the Americans long overlooked by many.

While PACE Act supporters claim that it will “promote expanded access to affordable child care for everyone," it will actually do zero for the families who need help most.

Today’s early care and education programs must have two purposes. First, support parents’ work in a 24/7 economy, and second, advance children’s healthy growth and learning during the most crucial period of human development.

We must find new ways to promote and leverage growing state commitment to early childhood, to incentivize state innovation, and to highlight strategies and activities of currently leading states.

A two-generation approach that eliminates silos between current federal programs and reduces regulatory and fiscal barriers to innovation can break the cycle of intergenerational poverty — advancing opportunity for two generations simultaneously.

For low-income and working-class Americans, access to high-quality child care is essential to achieving the American Dream.

The compelling promise of the early childhood focus is its real potential to close the opportunity gap and significantly improve outcomes for the nation’s most disadvantaged children.

Treating pre-kindergarten like a silver bullet isn’t helping the disadvantaged kids who need it most.

Pay for Success can’t solve every social challenge alone. But it holds great promise as a bipartisan approach to build more effective, efficient and responsive government programs.

Four national experts explain the Pay for Success model, an innovative new approach to public financing that improves social programs’ effectiveness and advances evidence-based policymaking.

Eighty years ago today, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the 37-page Social Security Act (SSA) of 1935 into law, enacting the most fundamental change in social policy in America’s history. But the program's original focus on children’s human flourishing has largely been lost.

An innovative public financing approach known as Pay For Success provides a way to break the cycle of ineffective government spending on social programs.

Building new bureaucracies or tacking preschool programs onto failing public schools are not the correct strategies for moving forward. Instead, we should target funding at the most vulnerable children, strengthen existing federal programs rather than create new bureaucracies, and promote research and innovation to raise the bar for action.

Voluntary home visiting programs, while not as well-known as Head Start or pre-K, may be the single most promising approach to improving the lives of America’s most disadvantaged young children.

Big scale-ups of “pre-K for all” are much more useful to politicians and the middle class than to the disadvantaged children most in need of help.