Jose Eduardo speaks with the 2017 “Building The Bench” Fellows working at The Bell Policy Center and Colorado Fiscal Institute about the economics of being a millennial. How is student debt impacting our lives? How is minimum wage impacting our families? And what is the deal with saving for retirement so early? They talk budget…
Bob Cabeza has a great story about growing up. I’ve known Bob for nearly ten years and I had no clue about the story. “I was raised on a ranch in northern California outside of Angel’s Camp, California.” That’s above Stockton and below Yosemite. The Vice-President for Community Development for the Greater Long Beach YMCA,…
By Debbie Rodriguez Four years ago, Julie and Walter Larkins cofounded Education Equals Opportunity Too, a program serving socially and academically at-risk youth. It is estimated that fifty percent of 16-24 year-old African Americans and Latinos are unemployed. “We either provide funding for our future and theirs, or we provide funding for prisons, welfare, and unemployment….