Economic Opportunity

Giving Compass’ Take: • Michael A. Schultz presents research suggesting that impoverished low-wage workers are less likely to move to better wages than low-wage workers who are more financially stable. •…

“Noisy” data can trip up artificial intelligence tools that calculate credit risk, leading to disadvantages for low-income and minority borrowers, research finds. For aspiring home buyers, getting a mortgage often…

Join us Wednesday, Sept. 8 at 12pm PT / 3pm ET for a critical discussion on the urgent need to bolster the social safety net to fight poverty in the US. Food…

The U.S. labor market had 10.1 million job openings at the end of June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But 8.7 million workers were still unemployed in July. If there are so…

As families with children start receiving the first of their monthly checks from the American Rescue Plan’s expanded child tax credit, Robert Greenstein calls the benefit transformational in reaching the…

First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) has invested $11 million in efforts to revitalize American communities and bridge racial gaps in health, wealth, and opportunity. As part of the initiative, the…

Over the past year, job losses from the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated housing insecurity among low-income renters. As of January 2021, nearly one in four of the nation’s 43 million renter households reported having…

Growing up in a northwest suburb of Chicago, Edward Blanco had big dreams and a lot of questions. His parents, immigrants from Guatemala, did not speak English or know how…

As COVID-19 reversed decades of global progress on ending extreme inequality, the world’s wealthiest recorded record financial gains. Billionaires across the globe — collectively worth more than 13 trillion dollars — saw their wealth…

Safe, high quality in-person schools and access to higher education are top concerns for Black women – nearly as important as protecting voting rights and fighting racism, a new national…

Human Resources is the organizational arm that can best operationalize values—that is, make values a concrete part of day-to-day work practices. It can be a guardian of culture and the…

Though the days of the coffee-fetching, fax-sending, thumb-twiddling intern are all but over, there is one vestige of the “first rite” of career passage that is stubbornly stuck in the…