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Economic Mobility: Is the American Dream Alive and Well?

Economic Mobility, U.S. Poverty, Welfare, Children & Families, U.S. Economy

Isabel V. Sawhill, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
John E. Morton, Director, Economic Mobility Project

Economic Mobility Project

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Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioStill the Land of Opportunity?

Isabel V. Sawhill, The Public Interest, March 01, 1999

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioGetting Ahead: Economic and Social Mobility in America

Daniel P. McMurrer and Isabel V. Sawhill, The Urban Institute, May 01, 1998

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioThe Rise Of the Bottom Fifth: How to Build on the Gains Of Welfare Reform

Ron Haskins, The Washington Post, May 29, 2007

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioFive Myths About Our Land of Opportunity

Isabel V. Sawhill and Ron Haskins, The Washington Post, November 01, 2009

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioWelfare to (Non-Traditional) Work?

Ron Haskins, New York Public Radio, August 03, 2007

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioThe Behavioral Aspects of Poverty

Isabel V. Sawhill, The Public Interest, September 01, 2003

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioFrom Welfare to Work: Making Welfare a Way Station, Not a Way of Life

Isabel V. Sawhill, The Brookings Institution, June 01, 2001

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioThe Limits On Economic Mobility

Julia B. Isaacs and Isabel V. Sawhill, The Milken Institute Review, October 24, 2008

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioFather's Day Lessons

Isabel V. Sawhill, Opportunity 08: What Matters, June 08, 2007

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioSolutions to Poverty

Isabel V. Sawhill, Testimony before The House Committee on Ways and Means, Income Security and Family Support Subcommittee, April 26, 2007

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioOpportunity in America: The Role of Education

Isabel V. Sawhill, Future of Children Policy Brief, September 01, 2006

Past Event

Save to My PortfolioSchool Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps

Tuesday, March 15, 2005
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio$87 Billion to Iraq, $88 Billon Tax cut; What About Children?

Greg Duncan and Isabel V. Sawhill, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, October 07, 2003

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioWork and Marriage: The Way to End Poverty and Welfare

Isabel V. Sawhill and Ron Haskins, The Brookings Institution, September 01, 2003

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioFor Richer or for Poorer: Marriage as an Antipoverty Strategy

Adam Thomas and Isabel V. Sawhill, Wiley Interscience, October 08, 2002

Past Event

Save to My PortfolioHelping Low-Income Workers Weather the Recession

Thursday, December 06, 2001
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, D.C.

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioMany Strategies, One Goal: Helping the Americans Left Behind

Isabel V. Sawhill, The Brookings Institution, March 01, 2000

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioNon-Marital Births and Child Poverty in the United States

Isabel V. Sawhill, House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources, June 29, 1999

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioAbstaining from Sex

Isabel V. Sawhill, Blueprint Magazine, January 01, 2002

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