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Goodbye and thank you from the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty

June 29, 2018
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Measuring Mobility Toolkit

June 29, 2018
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The Partnership's approach

June 28, 2018

Two years of listening, traveling, and learning led to five interconnected strategies driven by a comprehensive definition of mobility from poverty.

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Community Voices: Dilza Gonzalez

June 27, 2018
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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

A call for unity

June 27, 2018

Arthur Brooks and john powell describe the work that will be needed to unite a divided country.

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Brain and Behavioral Sciences

The importance of high expectations

June 26, 2018

A new brief on coach-navigator models and the role of coach mindset

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Turning insights into action to increase upward mobility

May 24, 2018
Sarah Rosen Wartell

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.

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Highlights from the Partnership's capstone event

May 22, 2018
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Event: Dramatically Increasing Mobility from Poverty

May 3, 2018
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Webinar: Measuring Mobility: Power, Autonomy, and Being Valued in Community

April 26, 2018
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  • Elisabeth Babcock

    Elisabeth Babcock

    President and CEO
    Economic Mobility Pathways
  • David T. Ellwood

    Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy
    Harvard Kennedy School
  • Joshua Bolten

    Joshua Bolten

    President and CEO
    Business Roundtable
  • Arthur C. Brooks

    President
    American Enterprise Institute
  • William J. Bynum

    Chief Executive Officer
    Hope Enterprise Corporation
  • Raj Chetty

    Professor
    Stanford University
  • Reverend Luis Cortés, Jr.

    Founder, President, and CEO
    Esperanza
  • Jennifer L. Eberhardt

    Jennifer L. Eberhardt

    Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology
    Stanford University
  • Kathryn Edin

    Kathryn Edin

    Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
    Princeton University
  • Srinija Srinivasan

    Srinija Srinivasan

    Cofounder
    Loove
  • Eldar Shafir

    Eldar Shafir

    William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
    Princeton University
  • Juan Salgado

    Juan Salgado

    Chancellor
    City Colleges of Chicago
  • Cecilia Rouse

    Cecilia Rouse

    Dean, Woodrow Wilson School
    Princeton University
  • John A. Powell

    john a. powell

    Director
    Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society
  • Ai-jen Poo

    Director
    National Domestic Workers Alliance
  • N. Gregory Mankiw

    N. Gregory Mankiw

    Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics
    Harvard University
  • Lawrence Katz

    Lawrence Katz

    Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics
    Harvard University
  • Anthony B. Iton

    Anthony B. Iton

    Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities
    The California Endowment
  • Cheryl L. Hyman

    Cheryl L. Hyman

    Former Chancellor
    City Colleges of Chicago
  • Robert Greenstein

    Robert Greenstein

    President
    Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
  • Marta Tienda

    Marta Tienda

    Maurice P. During '22 Professor of Demographic Studies; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
    Princeton University
  • Jeremy Travis

    Jeremy Travis

    Senior Vice President of Criminal Justice
    Laura and John Arnold Foundation
  • Roxane White

    Roxane White

    Morgridge Family Economic Security Innovator in Residence
    Ascend at the Aspen Institute
  • Hirokazu Yoshikawa

    Hirokazu Yoshikawa

    University Professor
    New York University

Restoring the American Dream

January 18, 2018
David T. Ellwood & Nisha G. Patel

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and staffed and supported by the Urban Institute, the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty was tasked with answering one big, bold question: What Would It Take to Dramatically Increase Mobility from Poverty? Specifically, the Partnership was...

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Children, Parents, and Families

Escaping Poverty

May 18, 2017
Caroline Ratcliffe & Emma Cancian Kalish

Predictors of persistently poor children's economic success.

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