Today's Children, Tomorrow's America: Six Experts Face the Facts

Urban Institute scholars from diverse disciplines tackle a simple-to-state, hard-to-answer question: How can solutions to our national and state budget crises fit the facts about children in the United States? In their responses, the contributors wrestle with recent and approaching economic and demographic challenges in different ways and bring very different experiences to bear.

SparkAction’s Alison Waldman the Urban Institute's release of the report, which featured a panel of the report's budget and kids’ experts. She observed a very clear difference in the mindset and approaches of budget experts versus advocates. Read her response to the diverse panel of experts, their anthology of opinions on kids and America, and the event.