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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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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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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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  • 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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