Economic Opportunity

Urban’s Mobility Metrics can help local policymakers identify barriers to mobility from poverty in their communities and develop solutions.

Declines in student loan borrowing are not equal across student cohorts, with Black students, those attending for-profits, and those earning certificates seeing increases in debt burdens over the past decade.

Indigenous, Black, and queer farmers are buying land with the aim to restore and nourish nature along with their cultures and communities.

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Disasters have been a constant presence in the news this year, including devastating floods in Vermont and historically deadly wildfires in Hawaii. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, there have…

During the mid- to late-1960s, the main slogans of the African American social justice movements were “freedom now” and “Black Power.”  It was recognized that both political power and economic…

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Removing income requirements from the child tax credit led to a dramatic decrease in child poverty. We should apply that lesson to the earned-income tax credit, too.

Voter suppression and bureaucratic barriers make voting in the United States harder than in most other developed nations, disenfranchising millions of Americans. As a result, higher-income citizens of the United…

The civil rights movement, from its mid-20th century growth and successes to its current manifestations, has had a dual focus of eliminating political and social discrimination and bettering the economic…

If advocates are committed to eliminating racial inequities in wealth building, we must also be committed to disrupting the barriers that devalue home prices because of race.

The Arouet Foundation in Phoenix, AZ works with women transitioning from incarceration, a group even more economically vulnerable than most FOC clients. Its program begins inside Perryville state prison for…

There is solid basis for concern when setting sights on a dignified labor sector in the future from the vantage point of current indignities suffered by many workers. The impact…