
Transforming Child Support into a Family-Building System
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...

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

Participatory Justice
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?

Opening Mobility Pathways by Closing the Financial Services Gap
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...

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...

Scale Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs to Reduce Poverty and Improve Health
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...
- Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy and Professor of PsychologyStanford University
- Maurice P. During '22 Professor of Demographic Studies; Professor of Sociology and Public AffairsPrinceton University
Restoring the American Dream
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...

Predictors of persistently poor children's economic success.