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Housing, inclusion, and social equity: A global perspective
Event Information November 30, 2015 8:00 AM - 2:30 PM ESTFalk Auditorium Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 Register for the Event Featuring Deputy Prime...
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Social policy, Singapore style: Lessons for the U.S.
“We have disadvantaged families and individuals in Singapore, but we don’t have a single disadvantaged neighborhood.” This was one of the most striking statements from Tharman Shanmugaratnam,...
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Realism trumps purism: Ideas from Brookings and AEI to cut poverty and...
“People don’t work across political divides anymore…compromise is an outdated virtue…polarization is triumphing”: these are the standard cocktail hour complaints in Washington, D.C. There are in fact...
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Helping Americans work more and gain skills for higher-paying jobs is vital...
Improving the labor market and encouraging work are central to our goals of achieving greater responsibility and opportunity in America. The private economy is the arena where most Americans work hard...
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Facts on poverty and opportunity that progressives and conservatives can...
Before we can solve a problem, we must understand it. As more Americans are born into poverty and struggle to escape it, the need to understand why becomes increasingly important. A new report from...
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The way forward to reduce poverty and promote the American Dream
Reducing poverty and increasing social mobility are bipartisan national priorities. They are discussed often by both the President and Congress, in think tanks and universities, and in the press and...
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A good education is important to achieving the American Dream
For much of the 20th century, a cornerstone of the American Dream has been the belief that, with hard work, all adults should be able to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. But over the...
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Changing family structures play a major role in the fight against poverty
Improving the family environment in which children are raised is vital to any serious effort to reduce poverty and expand opportunity. Twenty-five years of extensive and rigorous research has shown...
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Non-resident fathers: An untapped childcare army?
Problem 1: Children who lose contact with their fathers do worse in life. Problem 2: Single mothers who want to work often struggle with the cost of childcare. Problem 3: Many non-resident fathers are...
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Guns and race: The different worlds of black and white Americans
“The nation’s consciousness has been raised by the repeated acts of police brutality against blacks. But the problem of public space violence—seen in the extraordinary distress, trauma and pain many...
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The most American city: Chicago, race, and inequality
Yesterday Baltimore, today Chicago, tomorrow—who knows? The spotlight on race, poverty, and policing is swinging from one American city to the next. But at least more attention is now being paid to...
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America’s zip code inequality
Inequality remained a prominent theme in public debate during 2015, likely helped by the unexpected rise and resilience of democratic socialist Bernie Sanders' run for the Democratic presidential...
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Behind the headlines: 15 memos on race and opportunity
This year shone a bleak light on the deep racial divides of the U.S. The flash-points of Ferguson, Baltimore and Chicago gave new impetus to movements to reform the criminal justice system and...
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How much social mobility do people really want?
Here’s a question I get asked a lot: “Ok, so what’s the ideal amount of social mobility?” Scholars interested in relative income mobility often use a quintile transition matrix, showing how much...
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Parenting, Cam Newton, and marriage vs. cohabitation
When Cam Newton takes the field Sunday, most Carolina Panthers fans will be focused on his passing, running, and leadership, not his marital status. But the star quarterback’s personal life has been...
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The unbending arc: America's race gap is stuck
America is in danger of becoming stuck, with insufficient social, geographical, or economic mobility. That’s the claim I made in a recent essay for Esquire magazine, a collaboration between the...
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How will we know? The need for opportunity indicators
Every candidate out on the campaign trail wants to improve opportunity in America. The question is—what do they mean? To be even more specific, how will we know if opportunity has been improved? This...
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The case for 'race-conscious' policies
The injustices faced by African Americans are high on the nation’s agenda. “Black Lives Matter” has become a rallying cry that has elicited intense feelings among both supporters and detractors. As...
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Milwaukee, segregation, and the echo of welfare reform
Every day, Willie McShan climbs into a beat-up Chevy van in the parking lot at the Greater Praise Church of God in Christ in Milwaukee and gets a free ride to his job at an auto parts plant in...
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Time to take Basic Income seriously
What is the labor market for? The answer might seem obvious: to provide jobs. But in fact the labor market performs three crucial roles: 1) Allocating labor to capital in the interests of economic...
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