January 23, 2018
Two years of listening, traveling, and learning led to five interconnected strategies driven by a comprehensive definition of mobility from poverty.
Photo by Lydia Thompson/Urban Institute
May 24, 2018
Looking back on the inclusive process that informed the Partnership’s strategies and idea papers and ahead to the efforts these ideas are already inspiring.
A Locally Based Initiative to Support People and Communities by Transformative Use of Data
April 24, 2018
The data revolution is transforming how executives manage operations and businesses deliver goods and services. Yet when it comes to helping people escape poverty, the revolution has barely begun...
April 19, 2018
The US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty’s definition of mobility comprises three core principles: economic success, power and autonomy, and being valued in community. This paper curates and describes selected measures of these three principles.
Changing the Narrative
April 12, 2018
Narratives are stories we rely on to make sense of the world. In America today, inaccurate narratives about poverty too often get in the way of meaningful change. More accurate narratives about poverty and the true nature of upward mobility will lead to more...
April 6, 2018
In a forthcoming book, Partnership member Cheryl Hyman puts forward a bold vision for community colleges and what it takes to achieve comprehensive reform.
President and CEO
Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy
President and CEO
President
Chief Executive Officer
Professor
Founder, President, and CEO
Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology
Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Cofounder
William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
Chancellor
Dean, Woodrow Wilson School
Director
Director
Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics
Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics
Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities
Former Chancellor
President
Maurice P. During '22 Professor of Demographic Studies; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Senior Vice President of Criminal Justice
Morgridge Family Economic Security Innovator in Residence
University Professor
May 18, 2017
Predictors of persistently poor children's economic success.