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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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Videos

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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News

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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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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Publications

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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Webinar: Opening Mobility Pathways by Closing the Financial Services Gap

March 15, 2018
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Transforming Child Support into a Family-Building System

March 12, 2018
Heather Hahn, Kathryn Edin, Lauren Abrahams

Child support is a vital tool for providing income to children living in poverty. For families living in poverty who receive child support, it makes up 41 percent of their income on average. But the system can be punitive, requiring noncustodial parents—typically...

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Using Brain Science to Transform Human Services and Increase Personal Mobility from Poverty

March 5, 2018
Elisabeth Babcock

We can use emerging scientific findings on the ways poverty affects behavior and decisionmaking to help people living in poverty achieve dramatic gains in mobility. We can revolutionize human services delivery by moving away from strategies that seek modest gains...

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Place

Webinar: Opportunity Neighborhoods: Building the Foundation for Economic Mobility in America’s Metros

March 1, 2018
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Jobs, Education, and the Labor Market

Future of work ideas highlighted on FastCompany.com

February 27, 2018
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Participatory Justice

February 19, 2018
Jesse Jannetta, Jeremy Travis, Evelyn F. McCoy

What might justice look like if the people most affected by crime and poverty had a much greater say in what safety means to them and how their government delivers it?

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Jobs, Education, and the Labor Market

Webinar: Imagining a Future of Work That Fosters Mobility for All

February 15, 2018
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Opening Mobility Pathways by Closing the Financial Services Gap

February 12, 2018
William J. Bynum, Diana Elliott, Edward Sivak

Having access to a mainstream bank account, credit, and other financial services is vital to upward mobility. Safe, affordable financial services facilitate saving, homeownership, and small business ownership, and thus financial stability. That stability gives people room to plan for the future...

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Publications

Why Isn’t There Enough Affordable Housing for the Families Who Need It Most?

February 8, 2018
Maya Brennan & Solomon Greene

The ability to afford a decent stable home is a primary concern for families seeking to achieve mobility from poverty. This memo describes the scope of the housing affordability crisis, the market challenges that impede affordability, current policy responses, and options for improving...

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Scale Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs to Reduce Poverty and Improve Health

February 7, 2018
Heather Sandstrom & Roxane White

The effects of poverty in early childhood can last a lifetime. Home visiting programs can help. In home visiting programs, a nurse or other specialist offers parents support and coaching in their homes and connects them to other needed services. Evidence shows that...

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Helping Young Children Move out of Poverty by Creating a New Type of Rental Voucher

February 5, 2018
Barbara Sard, Mary K. Cunningham, Robert Greenstein

The United States is facing a massive shortage of affordable rental housing with worrying effects on millions of children. Rental vouchers can help.                                                                                                                                             ...

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Opportunity Neighborhoods

February 5, 2018
Margery Austin Turner, Solomon Greene, Anthony B. Iton, Ruth Gourevitch

Every family should be able to live in a neighborhood that supports well-being and boosts children’s chances to thrive and succeed. Yet today too many low-income families and families of color live in neighborhoods that lack resources and instead amplify the effects of growing up poor.

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Webinar: Restoring the American Dream: What Would It Take to Dramatically Increase Mobility from Poverty?

February 1, 2018
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Stepping on the Gas: Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Mobility

January 26, 2018
Pamela J. Loprest & Cheryl L. Hyman

Community colleges can be a springboard to a better life. They serve underrepresented, low-income, and nontraditional students; have a wide range of practical offerings; and offer lower tuition. They are uniquely situated to change the economic trajectory of...

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Imagining a Future of Work That Fosters Mobility for All

January 26, 2018
Lawrence Katz, Ai-jen Poo, Elaine Waxman

New technologies and alternative work arrangements are transforming the American labor market. Can the country leverage the ingenuity that created the dynamic 21st-century workplace to improve pathways to upward mobility? We identify six ideas that can improve the...

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News

US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty Puts Forward a New Framework for Upward Mobility

January 23, 2018
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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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Place

Assisted Housing Mobility Initiatives

November 22, 2017
Martha M. Galvez

Beginning with the landmark Gautreaux housing desegregation lawsuit, local programs have used federally funded housing vouchers to help low-income families move from neighborhoods of poverty and distress to neighborhoods that offer greater opportunity. The latest evidence finds that such “moves...

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Place

History of Place-Based Interventions

November 22, 2017
Margery Austin Turner

Beginning with the settlement houses of the late 19th century, practitioners and policymakers have worked to tackle the challenges of poverty in place through an evolving set of strategies. Since then, federal, state, and local governments; philanthropy; charitable organizations; and research...

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Jobs, Education, and the Labor Market

Banking on Jackson, Mississippi's youth

November 20, 2017

One of the city's high schools now houses a student-run credit union branch.

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Publications

Evaluating Policies to Transform Distressed Urban Neighborhoods

October 24, 2017
Laura Tach & Christopher Wimer
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Children, Parents, and Families

Using Sesame Street to reach and teach displaced children

October 22, 2017
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Illustration by Otto Steininger/Getty Images
Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

A plea to stop othering people in poverty

October 10, 2017

Why ending the stigma of poverty should be a bipartisan issue

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Safety and Justice

An insider's view of police reform

September 26, 2017

The new documentary The Force takes viewers inside the Oakland Police Department, an institution Partnership member Jennifer Eberhardt knows well after two years of intensive research.

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Publications

Place-Based Initiatives and Economic Mobility in Rural Areas

September 26, 2017
Corianne Scally & Lily Posey
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Jobs, Education, and the Labor Market

Beyond a high school diploma

September 24, 2017

Juan Salgado on expanding access to post-secondary education

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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

Racial Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Disparities

August 29, 2017
Solomon Greene, Margery Austin Turner, Ruth Gourevitch
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Place

How Neighborhoods Affect the Social and Economic Mobility of Their Residents

August 29, 2017
Margery Austin Turner & Ruth Gourevitch
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Children, Parents, and Families

The effect of violent crime on economic mobility

August 24, 2017

Raj Chetty's work leads to new insights

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Children, Parents, and Families

Coping with financial uncertainty

August 24, 2017

Kathryn Edin interviews the authors of The Financial Diaries

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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

Poverty is not just a lack of money

July 25, 2017
Nisha G. Patel

The definition of mobility from poverty that we have decided to put forth includes these three core principles: economic success, power and autonomy, and being valued in community.

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Jobs, Education, and the Labor Market

Why isn't there a constitutional right to education?

July 20, 2017
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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

Black people treated less respectfully in police interactions, study finds

July 17, 2017

A first-of-its-kind study co-authored by Partnership member Jennifer Eberhardt quantifies racial bias in police traffic stops.

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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

Building barriers won’t solve economic inequality

June 21, 2017
William J. Bynum

Can our collective pain push our common intersests to the forefront?

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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

Responding to "My Family's Slave"

June 20, 2017

Why slavery still exists in America

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Brain and Behavioral Sciences

Navigating a path out of poverty

June 19, 2017

Leveraging insights from brain science

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Jobs, Education, and the Labor Market

Investing in education: A conversation with Cecilia Rouse

May 30, 2017
Lionel Foster

Partnership member and Woodrow Wilson School dean Cecilia Rouse talks about education, human flourishing, and why economics is about more than the things we typically measure.

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Place

A tale of two zip codes

May 21, 2017

How Partnership member and California Endowment senior vice president Anthony Iton illustrates the salience of place.

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Children in classroom
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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Photo by Christophe Testi/Creative Shot Photography
Place

Organizing for opportunity in San Jose

April 22, 2017
Lionel Foster

The Partnership traveled to the neighborhood where Cesar Chavez got his start, to learn with residents about the changing dynamics of an immigrant community with historically high economic mobility.

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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

The economic chasm in Silicon Valley

April 21, 2017

Invisible workers in one of the country’s wealthiest regions.

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Children, Parents, and Families

Addressing family instability and complexity

April 20, 2017

The Partnership's Kathryn Edin on two big trends affecting low-income families.

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Photo by Lydia Thompson/Urban Institute

Dreaming, designing, and doing: Increasing mobility from poverty

March 27, 2017
Nisha G. Patel

The Partnership hosted a series of design labs to help translate our big ideas into concrete proposals.

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Illustration by Leigh Wells/Getty Images
Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

Confronting racial bias online

March 26, 2017

As popular online platforms grow, facilitating more communication between strangers, they have been at the center of conversations about racial bias.

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News

Poverty Solutions Conference

March 23, 2017

Members of the Mobility Partnership discussed the ideas the Partnership is developing at the Robin Hood and Russell Sage Foundations' Poverty Solutions Conference.

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Jobs, Education, and the Labor Market

Webinar: Realizing Community Colleges' Potential

March 21, 2017

As technology advances, employers demand different skills, and the cost of a four-year degree rises, community colleges are a crucial gateway to postsecondary credentials. 

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Place

Baltimore after the unrest: A conversation with Kathryn Edin

January 26, 2017
Lionel Foster

Kathryn Edin headed a research effort investigating factors that led to protests and violence after the death of Freddie Gray in 2015. In this interview, she talks about how far Baltimore has come since then and what still needs to change.

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Photo by FHG Photo/Flickr Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Safety and Justice

Tracing the steep decline in police enforcement actions in New York City

January 24, 2017

New York City’s falling crime rate has been accompanied by a dramatic reduction in arrests and other police enforcement activities.

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Photo courtesy of Esperanza
Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

Place and culture matter: A conversation with Reverend Luis Cortés Jr.

January 23, 2017
Lionel Foster

In North Philadelphia, Reverend Luis Cortés Jr. is building an organization that is responsive to the needs of local residents and takes pride in ethnic heritage. He wants to make it a national model.

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Place

Raj Chetty’s work used to chronicle income mobility in the Midwest

January 6, 2017

The Star Tribune uses data and the life trajectories of three Minnesotans to illustrate income mobility in the Midwest.

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Data and Outcomes

Webinar on 1/26: Conversations from Thought Leaders on Economic Mobility: Reflections and Insights on Recent Research and Ideas

December 23, 2016

Webinar: Conversations from Thought Leaders on Economic Mobility: Reflections and Insights on Recent Research and Ideas

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Children, Parents, and Families

Intergenerational mobility's downward trend

December 13, 2016

Mobility Partnership member Raj Chetty is being credited with quantifying the state of the American Dream: it is not nearly as robust as it used to be.

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Photo by Jack Baldwin/Flickr Creative Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Jobs, Education, and the Labor Market

“Small Factories Emerge as a Weapon in the Fight Against Poverty”

December 9, 2016

Modern manufacturing as a pathway out of poverty.

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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

Opportunity: From sea to shining sea

November 30, 2016
Nisha G. Patel

At a time when our country feels so divided, I am called to reflect on what unites us.

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Place

Learning in the Delta

November 30, 2016

The Mobility Partnership traveled to the Mississippi Delta to learn with residents and leaders in the region.

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Photo courtesy of Hope Enterprise Corporation
Place

Raising Hope: Expanding financial access in the South

November 28, 2016
Lionel Foster

Mobility Partnership member Bill Bynum on regional inequalities and the needs of rural communities.

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Photo by Adam Fagen/Flickr Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Jobs, Education, and the Labor Market

The future of higher education

November 17, 2016

Mobility Partnership member and City Colleges of Chicago chancellor Cheryl Hyman spoke at the Atlantic’s Future of Work summit.

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Children, Parents, and Families

“Giving Every Child a Monthly Check for an Even Start”

November 10, 2016

The New York Times’ Eduardo Porter highlights a proposal for a universal monthly child allowance.

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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

The Dalai Lama and Arthur Brooks on the need to feel needed

November 4, 2016

Mobility Partnership member Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, and the Dalai Lama collaborated on an...

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Children, Parents, and Families

Webinar on 11/22: A Universal Child Allowance to Reduce Poverty

October 26, 2016

To reduce child poverty and income instability, improve child development, and eliminate extreme poverty among US families with children, this webinar focuses on a proposal by nine leading poverty scholars on converting the Child Tax Credit and child tax exemption into a universal monthly child...

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Illustration by Huan Tran/Getty Images
Brain and Behavioral Sciences

This is your brain on stress

October 24, 2016
Elisabeth Babcock

Emerging research from many diverse fields, such as genetics, behavioral economics, cognitive neuroscience, medicine, and more, has converged to create a common Brain Science Lens.

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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

The Inclusiveness Index

October 19, 2016

The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society recently released its first annual Inclusiveness Index.

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Photo via torbakhopper/Flickr
Safety and Justice

Expanding implicit bias training in California

October 17, 2016
Lionel Foster

Last week, California Highway Patrol (CHP) personnel underwent an implicit bias training co-designed by US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty member Jennifer Eberhardt.

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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

Busted: America’s Poverty Myths

October 11, 2016
Lionel Foster

“On the Media” launched a series designed to correct popular misconceptions about poverty.

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Photo via Everett Historical/Shutterstock
Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

The Profitability of Segregation: A Historical Perspective

October 11, 2016
Lionel Foster

Racial bias creates the ideal conditions for financial exploitation.

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Jobs, Education, and the Labor Market

"Millions in U.S. Climb Out of Poverty, at Long Last"

October 4, 2016
Lionel Foster

While reporting on the 3.5 million people who moved above the poverty line in 2015, the New York Times noted some of the numerous services people working to escape poverty might need.

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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

Changing the Narrative About Power: Ascending from "The Prince" to King

September 27, 2016
Srinija Srinivasan

One of the most interesting conversations taking place within the Mobility Partnership is about the nature and definition of poverty.

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Photo courtesy of The California Endowment
Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

How community organizers changed my approach to health

September 27, 2016
Anthony B. Iton

Seeing great community organizers at work changed the way I think about health.

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Videos

The US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty

September 16, 2016
Lionel Foster

With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Urban Institute is supporting the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty. Chaired by David Ellwood and consisting of 24 leading voices on these issues, the Partnership is a new collaborative aimed at discovering permanent ladders of...

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Videos

Three Voices

September 8, 2016
Lionel Foster

The first meeting of the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty was May 12 and 13 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York.

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Children, Parents, and Families

Building Blocks and Strategies for Helping Americans Move Out of Poverty

August 24, 2016
Mary Bogle, Gregory Acs, Pamela J. Loprest, Kelly S. Mikelson, Susan J. Popkin
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Children, Parents, and Families

Creating Mobility from Poverty: An Overview of Strategies

August 24, 2016
David T. Ellwood, Mary Bogle, Gregory Acs, Kelly S. Mikelson, Susan J. Popkin
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Children, Parents, and Families

Poverty: Past, present, and future

August 9, 2016
Gregory Acs
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Two American experiences: The racial divide of poverty
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Race, Gender, Inclusion, and Dignity

Two American experiences: The racial divide of poverty

July 22, 2016
Diana Elliott

A black child who grew up in poverty in the late 1960s was twice as likely as a white child who grew up in poverty to also be poor as an adult.

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Publications

What Would Substantially Increased Mobility from Poverty Look Like?

July 20, 2016
Gregory Acs, Diana Elliott, Emma Cancian Kalish

Substantially increasing mobility from poverty means different things to different people. Some goals for reducing poverty and increasing mobility may sound ambitious but fall well within historical experience, while others may require levels of economic growth or redistribution that are beyond...

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The US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty: An idea grows in Brooklyn

June 6, 2016
David T. Ellwood & Nisha G. Patel

Experts in the Partnership gathered for the first time last month in Bedford-Stuyvesant to reframe how society thinks and talks about people experiencing poverty.

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News

Nisha Patel Joins Urban Institute as Executive Director of the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty

April 25, 2016
Lionel Foster

After leading public- and private-sector efforts to create economic opportunities for children and families, Nisha Patel is now executive director of a national initiative to combat poverty.

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News

Urban Institute Announces New Partnership to Develop Solutions for Social Mobility in America

February 5, 2016
Laura Greenback

WASHINGTON, DC, February 5, 2016 — Today, the Urban Institute announced a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to establish The US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty, a new collaborative aimed at discovering permanent ladders of mobility for the...

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A new effort to move Americans out of poverty

February 5, 2016
Sarah Rosen Wartell

Today, the Urban Institute is launching a collaborative of extraordinary partners with an audacious ambition: building stronger and more effective ladders of economic and social mobility out of poverty.

This independent effort, the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty...

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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 in classroom
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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