Economic Opportunity

Focus on structural origins of inequality can diminish biased views of others’ economic status among children, a study shows.

NPC is working with Ipsos to evaluate GambleAware’s Community Resilience Fund.

Taxing consumption that contributes to climate change hits the poor the hardest, while overlooking the huge profits tied to greenhouse gas emissions.

Racial, ethnic, and gender disparities across the U.S. economy are a personal tragedy for the millions of individuals who suffer from the emotional, psychological, and social consequences. These disparities also…

A backlash has begun against scholarship displacement, under which universities substitute outside scholarships for already-promised institutional financial aid, resulting in a zero net gain for recipients.

Despite having greater needs, Black, brown, and low-income students in Pennsylvania attend schools with the least experienced, least qualified teachers, a new report has found.

An excerpt from Rich White Men on the life-changing impact of inherited privilege…

You would be hard pressed to find an idea that has gained more traction more quickly than a guaranteed income. When it was first proposed in Stockton, CA, people were…

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Childhood poverty is a stubborn problem in the United States. About 11 million U.S. children lived in poverty prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for nearly one-third of the impoverished population in…

In this podcast episode, Katherine Baicker lays out an innovative blueprint for health care—not to tinker with the system, but to redesign it.

The history of the Qualified Small Business Stock exclusion and how it became a vehicle for perpetuating income and wealth inequality and options for reform.