Author: The Opportunity Agenda

One of the things I love most about New York City is the eclectic range of subway musicians playing or singing their heart out for a quarter here, a quarter there.  I think this is why I’ve become so into Playing For...

Urgency has a strange way of making people more pragmatic.  In the context of a crisis, outdated prejudices become stumbling blocks and, consequently, not so deeply held.  It’s surprising, then, that it took the...

The Immigration Prof Blog points us to the just released report on “Immigrant Integration in Los Angeles: Strategic Directions for Funders”.  The report focuses on Los Angeles where “one third of our...

This week President Obama promoted his much-needed economic recovery package in a prime-time news conference and a trip to economically depressed Elkhart, Indiana, where the unemployment rate has topped 15%.  Cities and...

In a piece for Slate.com, Timothy Noah writes about the disturbing phenomenon of putting coveted summer internships up for auction at elite private schools.  Clearly this is putting those who cannot pay, but are well...