The Presidency / The First Year

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Joe Biden at one year

Presidential experts evaluate the 46th president's first year in office

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Donald Trump at one year

White House veterans and Miller Center scholars evaluate the 45th president's first 365 days

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First Year Project Introduction

Watch this overview of the First Year Project

Leadership

A view from the inner circle

The Miller Center joins with Longwood to host a panel on the vice presidency
Sheila Blackford
Miller Center
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Jobs and Economy

Moving up

It is imperative that the next presidential administration dedicate its first year to policies designed to catalyze upward economic mobility for the millions currently left behind.
Melody Barnes
Miller Center
Schematics

Science and Technology

The long game

What can a president do to build a next-generation economy? How can economic growth widen opportunity for all Americans, not just a privileged few? Every modern American president has wrestled with some version of these two questions during his first year in office.
Margaret O'Mara
University of Washington
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Economic Issues

The income gap

Along with terrorism, climate change, disease pandemics, and the prospect of persistently low economic growth, inequality has crept up the international policy agenda to become one of the most urgent and important issues of our time.
Dambisa Moyo