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Tamar Jacoby as Public Intellectual
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Tamar Jacoby is president of Opportunity America, a Washington-based nonprofit working to promote economic mobility – work, skills, careers, ownership and entrepreneurship for poor and working Americans. This interview chronicles her career, starting as a journalist as the deputy editor of The New York Times op-ed page and senior writer and justice editor at Newsweek and later as an author of several books, including the highly noted “Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration.” The interview covers her work on immigration reform, including her efforts to negotiate a legislative solution to the problem. Her subsequent emphasis on workforce issues has included work on community colleges apprenticeship and other strategies for widening opportunity in America.
37 episodes
Manage episode 323483121 series 3330676
Tamar Jacoby is president of Opportunity America, a Washington-based nonprofit working to promote economic mobility – work, skills, careers, ownership and entrepreneurship for poor and working Americans. This interview chronicles her career, starting as a journalist as the deputy editor of The New York Times op-ed page and senior writer and justice editor at Newsweek and later as an author of several books, including the highly noted “Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration.” The interview covers her work on immigration reform, including her efforts to negotiate a legislative solution to the problem. Her subsequent emphasis on workforce issues has included work on community colleges apprenticeship and other strategies for widening opportunity in America.
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