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A Locally Based Initiative to Support People and Communities by Transformative Use of Data

April 24, 2018
Julia Lane, David C. Kendrick, David T. Ellwood

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...

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Measuring Mobility from Poverty

April 19, 2018
Gregory Acs, Amrita Maitreyi, Alana L. Conner, Hazel Rose Markus, Nisha G. Patel, Sarah Lyons-Padilla, Jennifer L. Eberhardt

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.

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Changing the Narrative

April 12, 2018
Ai-jen Poo & Eldar Shafir

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...

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Webinar: Transforming Child Support into a Family-Building System

April 12, 2018
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Jobs, Education, and the Labor Market

Transforming community colleges

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.

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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

Nisha Patel on "1A"

April 5, 2018

The NPR program asks, "Who is continuing Martin Luther King's fight against poverty?"

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Improving the Child Tax Credit for Very Low-Income Families

April 2, 2018
Robert Greenstein, Elaine Maag, Chye-Ching Huang, Emily Horton, Chloe Cho

All children should have the opportunity to have healthy childhoods, do well in school, and succeed as adults. One effective tool for helping children in poverty succeed is the federal child tax credit (CTC), which provides many working parents an annual tax credit...

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Webinar: Providing Support That Empowers: Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs and Brain Science-Informed Human Services

March 22, 2018
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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

Raj Chetty and colleagues highlight large differences in economic opportunity by race

March 19, 2018
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SPARKS for Young People's Mobility out of Poverty

March 19, 2018
Heather Hahn, Kathryn Edin, Lauren Abrahams

To achieve mobility from poverty, young people must have resources to develop their identities and avoid unintended pregnancy. We propose expanding programs that help young people find their “why” —their personal reasons for making thoughtful decisions during...

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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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