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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.

We...

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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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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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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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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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Evaluating Policies to Transform Distressed Urban Neighborhoods

October 24, 2017
Laura Tach & Christopher Wimer
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Place-Based Initiatives and Economic Mobility in Rural Areas

September 26, 2017
Corianne Scally & Lily Posey
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