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Tamar Jacoby, on “Restoring the Dignity of the Working Class.” Tamar Jacoby is president of Opportunity America, a Washington-based nonprofit working to promote economic mobility. A former journalist and author, she was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a senior writer and justice editor at Newsweek and, before that, the deputy editor of the New York Times op-ed page. Jacoby’s articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Weekly Standard, and Foreign Affairs. She is the author of Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration and editor of Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means to Be American. Jacoby holds a B.A. from Yale University.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on March 8, 2019.
Tamar Jacoby, on “Restoring the Dignity of the Working Class.” Tamar Jacoby is president of Opportunity America, a Washington-based nonprofit working to promote economic mobility. A former journalist and author, she was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a senior writer and justice editor at Newsweek and, before that, the deputy editor of the New York Times op-ed page. Jacoby’s articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Weekly Standard, and Foreign Affairs. She is the author of Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration and editor of Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means to Be American. Jacoby holds a B.A. from Yale University.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on March 8, 2019.
