Author: The Opportunity Agenda

Fireworks on the 4th of July always make me cry. I’m not affraid to say it. There’s something about it, all the senses are activated as an idea–what once was the dream of a few revolutionaires–plays...

*     The Kentucky Post has reported on the status of the case where the federal government prosecuted a landlord for renting apartments to illegal immigrants.  The jury found in favor of the defendant, whom the...

Last Thursday, June 26th a California Superior court upheld the LAPD’s 29-year-old policy of neither arresting people based on immigration status nor asking about immigration status during interviews. This policy,...

Earlier this month the Atlas Project at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice released a report documenting the state of health inequalities in the United States.  The report (which was previously...

The 8th Amendment of the Constitution, in its prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, holds at its core the fundamental American values of fairness, dignity, and justice.  Last week’s Supreme Court decision on...