This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Between 2000 and 2016, 500 million people gained access to electricity. That pace is expected to continue to 2030. That will still leave 674 million people (compared with 1.1 billion…
In both rich and poor countries, government policy is often based on no evidence at all and many programs don’t work. This has particularly harsh effects on the global poor…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A man who had been doing maintenance on an apartment building in exchange for rent came into a Hopelink center one day, asking if anyone knew of a small car…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans attempt to portray a tax plan slanted to the top 1 percent as “middle-class” tax relief, it’s worth asking what actual tax relief…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two years ago, McKinsey reported that achieving gender parity in India by 2025 would have a greater economic impact than in any other region in the world. The report, “The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. San Francisco, despite its reputation for unabashed progressivism and rapidly growing wealth, has a public school system with gapingly large achievement gaps and a more pronounced failure to serve low-income…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Chicago public school officials announced last Friday that enrollment over the past year had continued a nearly two-decade downward trend, declining by about 10,000 students. Roughly 371,000 students now attend the city’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While debate continues over whether the Republican tax plan will boost the middle class or help only the rich, the truth is that nobody yet knows. Too many details need to be worked…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It has taken much too long for poverty researchers and program analysts to incorporate the insights of behavioral economists into their research and policy designs. We know enough to launch…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Children in Mississippi’s capital city are getting shortchanged. The Mississippi Department of Education had been investigating the Jackson Public School District, and recently released a report which found the district…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The American dream is difficult to achieve for many people in this country, with a substantive number of families stuck at the bottom of the economic ladder, unable to climb…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will release free and open source software to address the lack of interoperability between financial service providers and payments platforms. The code is called Mojaloop,…