Sarah Nzau

Edwin Avent (C) participates with students in a learning exercise at a summer session of a charter school called Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., July 30, 2019. Avent co-founded Black Professional Men Inc. in 1991 to lift up African-American men, offering lessons in topics from financial literacy to rap music. Black Professional Men has mentored 3,000 boys and awarded 225 college scholarships, using education and positive reinforcement to divert youth away from gangs, drugs and guns. "What we're doing is building black boys into the next generation of doctors, lawyers, scientists and leaders, maybe even the next Barack Obama," said Avent. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith

Social networks and economic mobility–what the findings reveal

Sarah Nzau, Camille Busette, Richard V. Reeves, and Kwadwo Frimpong

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

How We Rise: How social networks impact economic mobility in Racine, WI, San Francisco, CA, and Washington, DC

Camille Busette, Jill Simmerman Lawrence, Richard V. Reeves, and Sarah Nzau

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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The challenges facing Black men – and the case for action

Richard V. Reeves, Sarah Nzau, and Ember Smith

Thursday, November 19, 2020

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Horatio Alger got married in Salt Lake City: Intergenerational mobility, place, and marriage

Richard V. Reeves and Sarah Nzau

Thursday, October 1, 2020

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Black Americans are much more likely to serve the nation, in military and civilian roles

Richard V. Reeves and Sarah Nzau

Thursday, August 27, 2020

A woman carries her free groceries from the PICA Olneyville Food Center amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S., April 23, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

White House or State House: Who do we listen to on social distancing?

Sarah Nzau and Richard V. Reeves

Monday, April 27, 2020

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Machines and the middle class: 5 lessons from a discussion between Marcus Casey and James Bessen

Sarah Nzau and Marcus Casey

Friday, January 17, 2020

A child gets some help with balance as they skate at the Bryant Park Skating rink in the Manhattan borough of New York November 30, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY TRAVEL) - GM1EAC10E0T01

A primer on access to and use of paid family leave

Isabel V. Sawhill, Sarah Nzau, and Katherine Guyot

Thursday, December 5, 2019

An automated guided vehicle carrying a battery pack moves under a partially assembled 2018 Chevrolet Bolt EV vehicle on the assembly line at General Motors Orion Assembly in Lake Orion, Michigan, U.S., March 19, 2018. Photo taken March 19, 2018. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook - RC16181E9F00

Automation, work and skills

Marcus Casey and Sarah Nzau

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Heather Padgett, with her mother Debi Padgett (R), takes her daughters Kinsley and Kiley for a walk outside their home in Cincinnati, Ohio July 16, 2015. Until she got clean last August, Heather was part of what the Centers for Disease Control has called a heroin epidemic - a 100 percent rise in heroin addiction among Americans between 2002 and 2013. The sharp rise in heroin addiction, coupled with the risks of newborns developing withdrawal symptoms after they are sent home, has led a group of Cincinnati hospitals to try what they say is the first program of its kind in the United States: testing all mothers, or their infants, for opiates regardless of background, not just those who seem high-risk. To match Feature USA-HEROIN/MATERNALTESTING Picture taken July 16, 2015. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein - GF20000015645

What are the challenges to adopting a federal paid family leave program?

Isabel V. Sawhill and Sarah Nzau

Tuesday, October 15, 2019