Reducing Recidivism Through Targeted Education and Workforce Programs
Prison education is one of the few policies left where the arithmetic and the politics point the same direction.
2Our first full-length brief lays out the evidence, model legislation, and a state-by-state implementation roadmap.
3Net taxpayer savings arrive inside six years — which is why this is a bill either party could carry.
The New York Unity Project exists to put usable policy on the table: briefs that survive fact-checking, bills a legislator from either party could carry, and research published with its data.
The rules for AI, for education access, and for the first rungs of the job market are being written right now — in statehouses, agencies, and school boards — often ahead of the evidence, and almost always without the people who will live under them longest. We're the people who will live under them longest. So we do the work.
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A Quick History of Division in America
How did American politics get this divided? Our first long-form essay traces the answer from the founding era to today — and makes the case that the current moment is different.
It pairs with two research studies now in progress that put numbers to the trend.