Income Inequality & Social Mobility

Social Mobility Memos

Listen: A book about the American Dream, read in a British Accent

Richard V. Reeves

Thursday, October 12, 2017

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U.S. Metro Areas

Five maps show progress made, but mostly lost, on middle-class incomes in America

Alan Berube

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Donnie Gooding and Katy Yeager Gooding drive to dinner with their baby Kennedy Gooding in Barboursville, West Virginia, October 18, 2015. Picture taken October 18, 2015. To match Special Report BABY-OPIOIDS/ REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - GF10000257877

Up Front

Visiting working class America

Tamar Jacoby and Isabel V. Sawhill

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

A woman holds a sign as she attends an event in support of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's progressive agenda against income inequality outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington

FixGov

Tax reform in the age of inequality

Camille Busette

Monday, October 2, 2017

Reports

Angie Granpe and her son Eitan travel on a Greyhound bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

Income Inequality & Social Mobility

Rural dreams: Upward mobility in America’s countryside

Eleanor Krause and Richard V. Reeves

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

A family member of a miner trapped underground in the Pike River coal mine sits outside a progress briefing by mine authorities and police in Greymouth on New Zealand's west coast November 23, 2010. Efforts to rescue 29 men trapped in a New Zealand coal mine suffered yet another setback on Tuesday after a robot sent into the main shaft broke down, adding to agonising delays as hopes for survivors faded. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne (NEW ZEALAND - Tags: DISASTER BUSINESS) - RTXUXV9

Income Inequality & Social Mobility

The geography of desperation in America

Carol Graham, Sergio Pinto, and John Juneau II

Monday, July 24, 2017

Stairs, which are all that remain where a house once stood, are pictured in Waveland, Mississippi, August 26, 2015. FEMA described Waveland as "ground zero" for Hurricane Katrina. Next to a newly built city hall and a business center, dozens of housing lots remain empty. Grass and brush have grown around old "for sale" signs, some of them offering reduced prices. The whole region is littered with memories of what happened 10 years ago, and the possessions and the people that were lost. Picture taken August 26, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman - RTX1Q1MY

Demographics & Population

Unequal hopes and lives in the U.S.

Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Workers construct mini-bikes at motorcycle and go-kart maker Monster Moto in Ruston

Income Inequality & Social Mobility

What we know and don’t know about declining labor force participation: A review

Eleanor Krause and Isabel V. Sawhill

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

A worker welds steel bars at a construction site for a new train station in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, December 6, 2012. Annual growth in China's factory output, investment and retail sales may have gained pace in November thanks to recent pro-growth policies, a Reuters poll showed, reducing the chances for further policy support as inflation picks up. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION TRANSPORT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA

Global Development

Addressing the accelerating labor market dislocation from digitalization

Roger Burkhardt and Colin I. Bradford

Monday, March 20, 2017

Blog Posts

Residents walk through shacks in Cape Town's crime-ridden Khayelitsha township in this picture taken July 9, 2012. At least 11 people have died at the hands of vigilantes in the township since January as angry residents, tired of poor policing, take the law into their own hands. Picture taken July 9, 2012. To match Feature SAFRICA-CRIME/ REUTERS/Mike Hutchings (SOUTH AFRICA - Tags: CRIME LAW) - GM1E87C1UFL01

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: Diverging trends on income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa

Dhruv Gandhi

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Students listen to professor Christian Agunwamba during their "Fundamentals of Algebra" class, which is held from 11:45pm to 2:30am, at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, Massachusetts September 9, 2010, one of five midnight classes offered this semester due to surging enrollment. Bunker Hill's experiment with "midnight oil" classes began with two classes a year ago and a handful of other colleges, from Maryland to Illinois to California, have followed Bunker Hill's lead and are offering midnight classes to cope with overflowing enrollment. Picture taken September 9, 2010. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY) - GM1E69T0CEA01

Social Mobility Memos

Colleges as class reproduction machines

Richard V. Reeves

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

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The Avenue

Three charts showing you poverty in U.S. cities and metro areas

Alan Berube and Cecile Murray

Thursday, September 14, 2017

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Events

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The tribes of Israel: Diversity, cohesion, and conflict

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Economic mobility and racial inequities: How the next president can revive the American dream

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM EDT

The future of the global economic order in an era of rising populism

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EDT

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Related Books

Does Character Matter?

By Richard V. Reeves

2015

Transpacific Rebalancing

Edited by Barry P. Bosworth and Masahiro Kawai

2015

Generation Unbound

By Isabel V. Sawhill

2014

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Experts

Isabel V. Sawhill

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Children and Families

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Shamika Ravi

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

Senior Fellow - Brookings India

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Richard V. Reeves

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Co-Director - Center on Children and Families

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Multimedia

Social Mobility Memos

Takeaways from the conversation on race, class and culture

Camille Busette, Richard V. Reeves, and Eleanor Krause

Friday, September 8, 2017

Water is seen in a pond in front of Beverly Hills' city sign

Income Inequality & Social Mobility

Hoarding the American Dream

Richard V. Reeves, Bill Finan, and Fred Dews

Friday, June 16, 2017

Zhang Yingyi, a 30-year-old administrative assistant and a mother of a three-year-old girl, smiles as she poses for a photograph at her home in Shanghai, China,

Emerging Markets

The global middle class

Homi Kharas and Fred Dews

Friday, May 19, 2017

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