03.15.2013 blog
House passes WIA reauthorization, includes pay-for-performance amendment
Opportunity Nation supports pay-for-performance models in which federal funding follows results
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03.15.2013 blog
Opportunity Nation and code.org want to foster technical skills
Opportunity Leader Marquis Cabrera says learning to code in high school changed his life
Read more »03.14.2013 blog
Indiana proclaims March Opportunity Month
Indiana becomes second state to proclaim "Opportunity Month" to heighten awareness of the urgent need to increase economic mobility
Read more »03.13.2013 blog
Turning the ship upstream - Philanthropy and Social Change
Opportunity Nation staff speak at Boston conference on the power of policy in philanthropy
Read more »03.08.2013 blog
Snowquester couldn’t squelch pay-for-performance progress
Pay-for-performance step closer in federal job training fund
Read more »02.27.2013 blog
House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer
Opportunity Nation is encouraged about the creation of a new task force on Poverty and Opportunity this week with a bold goal of cutting poverty in half in the next decade. The task force will work to raise public awareness about the circumstances facing low-income citizens and the barriers to economic mobility they face.
Read more »02.25.2013 blog
Beasts Of The Southern Wild & The Opportunity Index
Louisiana's poverty rate is several points above the national average. As portrayed in the film, too many families are living below the poverty line. Additionally, Louisiana has a higher-than-average percentage of youth who are not in school and not working.
Read more »02.19.2013 blog
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Opportunity
The local public high school was a “drop-out factory.” I was put into remedial classes, which I found boring and unchallenging after my previous education. But even worse than that, I felt like the school had given up on me. So, I gave up on myself and dropped out. My story could have ended there. I could have become one of my many peers who didn’t graduate.
Read more »02.19.2013 blog
Moneythink and Opportunity Nation
The Opportunity Nation summit in late 2011 affirmed my hunch. Surrounded by opportunity-obsessed changemakers for three days in Harlem, I realized just how strong and unified the group of people committed to making this country better really is. I met Leaders and Scholars and Speakers and Mentors who all felt the same way about closing this nation's opportunity gap: they were committed to closing it. Realizing that I wasn't alone in my desire to make an impact on such a giant issue--lack of opportunity in America--and fully inspired that we could do it if we all put our heads together, I committed then and there--in November 2011--to launching Moneythink as a full-time professional operation.
Read more »02.15.2013 blog
Is Your City an All-Star?
The NBA All-Star game engages millions of fans to become involved and Opportunity Nation wants to engage millions more to have a say at even higher stakes--restoring the American Dream. The fans held the power to choose some of the All-Star players by voting for them to be starters. Similarly, the everyday American can hold the power to make his or her county an All-Star and one day a MVP. Opportunity Leaders and Scholars are already embarking on this mission in their communities to restore the ladder of opportunity.
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