Elizabeth Kneebone
Senior Research Associate, Metropolitan Policy Program
Elizabeth Kneebone is a senior research associate at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.  Her work primarily focuses on urban and suburban poverty, metropolitan demographics, and tax policies that support low-income workers and communities.  Prior to joining Brookings, Elizabeth worked as a Research Project Manager for the Illinois Facilities Fund, where her research included assessments of the need for quality public schools in Chicago's neighborhoods and the need for subsidized early childhood care and education programs throughout Illinois' counties and major municipalities. She holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Indiana University.

Publications:
  • The Re-Emergence of Concentrated Poverty: Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s
  • Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America 
  • Responding to the New Geography of Poverty: Metropolitan Trends in the Earned Income Tax Credit 
  • The Great Recession and Poverty in Metropolitan America 
  • The Child Tax Credit after ARRA: How Would Expiration Affect Metropolitan Families? 
  • The State of Metropolitan America: Income and Poverty 
  • The Suburbanization of Poverty: Trends in Metropolitan America
  • The Landscape of Recession: Unemployment and Safety Net Services Across Urban and Suburban America
  • Job Sprawl Revisited: The Changing Geography of Metropolitan Employment
  • Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit to Benefit Families and Places
  • The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America: Case Studies from Communities Across the U.S. 
  • Reversal of Fortune: A New Look at Concentrated Poverty in the 2000s 
  • Metro Raise: Boosting the Earned Income Tax Credit to Help Metropolitan Workers and Families 
  • Bridging the Gap: Refundable Tax Credits in Metropolitan and Rural America 
  • A Local Ladder for Low-Income Workers: Recent Trends in the Earned Income Tax Credit 
  • Two Steps Back: City and Suburban Poverty Trends 1999-2005