Income-Based Policies Shrank the Economic Gap while Ignoring or Even Deepening Racial Funding Inequities.

The lobby of the PSTC buzzed with quiet pride as students, family, friends, and faculty gathered to celebrate the Master’s in Social Data Analytics (MSDA) class of 2026.

Celebrating the Class of 2026

Reading scores sank in New York City last school year, with a nearly 14 percentage point decline among third graders, according to preliminary data released Friday.

There’s a long-held charge against the traditional system in U.S. public education: Sending children to neighborhood schools consigns poorer kids to underfunded and unsafe schools while affluent kids thrive in amenity-rich environments geared toward college preparation.

Programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, refundable tax credits, and Medicaid are meant to help families through hard times. A central question for both budget writers and health policymakers is what that early support means decades later.