The Promise of Opportunity

Alan Jenkins, Opportunity Agenda

Expanding opportunity for this and future generations is crucial to our nation’s success, and doing so must be a core responsibility of each presidential administration. It’s a mission that should permeate nearly everything the government does, rather than being relegated to a discrete set of ‘opportunity programs.’ Energy policies, infrastructure policies, economic policies, health care policies, and criminal justice policies, among others, should all pass through the opportunity filter.

Opportunity Ideas

  • Make the expansion of opportunity an important and explicit consideration in the funding of federal and state programs
  • Implement a coordinated system for executing and enforcing existing federal statutes and regulatory safeguards of opportunity
  • Develop uniform cross-agency guidelines for opportunity impact statements

 

Excerpted from Thinking Big: Progressive Ideas for a New Era, our shared agenda for Congress and the Administration.

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