Economic Opportunity

LISC is committed to furthering racial equity through our Project 10x initiative. Project 10x is laser focused on using LISC’s resources to upend the racial health, wealth, and opportunity gaps that…

I’m sure that John List did not intend for his new book, The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale, to raise foundational questions about American…

If you want to understand the teacher shortages disrupting schools across the country this winter, check out an episode of the new sitcom Abbott Elementary, which follows teachers at a fictional…

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed an estimated 124 million people into extreme poverty globally, the first increase in extreme poverty in 20 years. To meet the magnitude of this need, governments…

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic made supply chain snags a topic of dinner table conversation, the U.S. was already struggling with broken production systems in a key industry: housing. The…

Black students who attend historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are more satisfied with their college experiences than Black students who attend other types of postsecondary institutions, a new Urban Institute…

The cost of damage caused by invasive species around the world, including to agriculture, fisheries, and forestry, is at least 10 times that of preventing or controlling them, an international study suggests. The…

The job market is shifting. People are leaving their jobs everywhere and in great numbers. Employers are scrambling to hire people. More unions are forming. And yet, so many organizations…

For decades, many school districts with the largest share of students living in poverty have endured crumbling buildings, outdated textbooks, and little support for students and teachers. Now, the infusion…

Brett Carter, Executive Vice President and Chief Customer and Innovation Officer at Xcel Energy, believes that within a growing economy there is an abundance of opportunity in which everyone should…

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought up tons of data questions — what information should we be collecting, what can it tell us (and what does it fail to tell us)…