Vox: The Great Rebuild – Episode Four
Posted OnSeptember 3, 2020 byThe last time Andrew Yang was on The Ezra Klein Show, he was just beginning his long-shot campaign for the presidency. Now, he’s fresh off a speaking slot at the Democratic convention and, as he reveals in this episode, talking to Joe Biden about a very specific role in a Biden administration.Read More
Vox: The Great Rebuild – Episode One
Posted OnAugust 27, 2020 byThe novel coronavirus — and America’s disastrously inept response — has shuttered the economy, leaving factories quiet, businesses closed, workers unable to do their jobs. Pulling out of this hole will require an economic effort unlike anything in recent history. We don’t just need a bit of stimulus. We will need a remobilization. But toward what end?Read More
Vox: The Great Rebuild – Episode Three
Posted OnAugust 27, 2020 bySaul Griffith knows the US energy system better than just about anyone on this planet. He’s an inventor, a MacArthur genius fellow, and the founder and CEO of Otherlab, where his team was contracted by the Department of Energy to track and visualize the entirety of America’s energy flows. I had Griffith on The Ezra Klein Show last year for our climate series to lay out what it would look like for America to decarbonize. It was an awesome episode, but it was just a start.
Vox: The Great Rebuild – Episode Two
Posted OnAugust 27, 2020 byIn 2019, about one in six children in America — 12 million kids nationwide — lived in poverty. That’s a rate about two or three times higher than in peer countries. And that was before the worst economic and public health crisis in modern history.
Omidyar Announces Economic Response Advocacy Fund Investment in 18 Advocacy Organizations
Posted OnJuly 27, 2020 byWashington, DC – Today, Omidyar Network announced the final round of investments as part of its Economic Response Advocacy Fund. The Fund was established to create a stronger, more inclusive economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Read More
How Econ 101 Upholds Racist Systems (with Joelle Gamble)
Posted OnJuly 16, 2020 byJoelle Gamble sits down with Pitchfork Economics to discuss economic theories can be exclusionary and perpetuate racist outcomes. Read More
Creating Good Digital Identities in Africa
Posted OnJune 21, 2019 byOn the margins of the ID4Africa annual meeting, Omidyar Network’s Thea Anderson speaks with CNBC Africa about the need for and pathway to Good ID.Read More
Omidyar Network’s Magdi Amin on Creating Good Digital IDs to Drive Africa’s Growth
Posted OnJune 19, 2019 byOn the margins of the ID4Africa annual meeting, Omidyar Network’s Magdi Amin speaks with CNBC Africa about the need for and pathway to Good ID. Read More
Mike Kubzansky Shares Insights with The Business of Giving
Posted OnJune 18, 2019 byMike Kubzansky shares insights about our refreshed strategy and Beneficial Tech work in a recent interview with The Business of Giving. Read More
Omidyar Network Publishes Report on Early Childhood Education, Sees Big Opportunity
Posted OnFebruary 28, 2019 byIsabelle Hau spoke with YourMarkOnTheWorld about opportunities to invest in children before they start school, to level the playing field, and give every child an equal opportunity at success in life.Read More