Kimberly Adams

All right, let's get into the conversation.

I want to start off because all y'all work in sort of polling and data.

And often when we're talking about children and families, we're thinking social workers, teachers, and people who are often on the front lines working with families.

I would love for you all to talk about why it's important to be chatting about the data when we're talking about ways to actually serve children and families.

Brian, why don't you go first?

So, Linda, can you talk about the work that you do and how this shows up there?

And that comes to you and your work in terms of how people think, not only think about these issues, but how they act on them.

We're going to take a quick break.

We'll be right back.

All right.

We are back to hear more from that Aspen Institute discussion I moderated on the state of American families and what it means for policy.

All right.

So y'all have laid out a pretty compelling argument for why the data matters so much in these issues.

Brian, I'll go back to you.

What issues pull well here?

And, you know, you do mainly Republican strategy, but how does that shift across parties?

And Celinda, what are you seeing in the data in terms of how people are reacting, particularly to the way that policies are changing now as they pertain to children and families?

Nat, can you talk a little bit more about, you know, we've got the fact that these issues pull well across parties.

There are strategies that we know people like, and yet somehow it's still very difficult to translate them into policy.

I appreciate it.