Hope Street Group released a statement today on the reform elements of the recovery legislation in Congress:

    "We know how critical it is to address the short term crisis," said Executive Director Monique Nadeau. "But if we don't start at the same time to strengthen the true drivers of economic opportunity, we risk bouncing from crisis to crisis."

    "We're in the unfortunate position of having to fix the car while we're driving it."

    Hope Street Group's Economic Opportunity Index has identified education and health care as the two largest economic drivers; its American Dream Agenda lays out the policy solutions necessary for strengthening both.