Income Inequality & Social Mobility

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Up Front

Class Notes: Virtual college counseling, rainy-day savings accounts, and more

Chenoah Sinclair and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

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Middle Class

A primer on access to and use of paid family leave

Isabel V. Sawhill, Sarah Nzau, and Katherine Guyot

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Harsh economic times affecting household budgets

Up Front

New SNAP rule change just made it harder to combat future recessions

Lauren Bauer, Jana Parsons, and Jay Shambaugh

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Row houses

Housing Markets & Finance

“Gentle” density can save our neighborhoods

Alex Baca, Patrick McAnaney, and Jenny Schuetz

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Reports

Worcester, Massachusetts

Economic Development

Small and midsized legacy communities: Trends, assets, and principles for action

November 14, 2019

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Technology & Innovation

Gender, occupational segregation, and automation

Patricia Cortes and Jessica Pan

Thursday, November 7, 2019

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Technology & Innovation

Employment and training for mature adults

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Jacob Bailey conducts assembly on an SUV chassis at the General Motors Assembly Plant in Arlington, Texas June 9, 2015. General Motors Co is raising the stakes on its bet that sales of fuel-thirsty sport utility vehicles will keep driving its global profits as Chinese and other markets sag. GM said on July 14, 2015 that it plans to spend $1.4 billion to modernize the factory in Arlington, Texas, that builds the Cadillac Escalade, Chevrolet Suburban and GMC Yukon sport utility vehicles. It's the largest single investment in a $5.4 billion, three-year plant upgrade program announced earlier this year. Picture taken June 9, 2015. To match Insight GM-SUVS/ REUTERS/Mike Stone - GF10000166170

Technology & Innovation

How automation and other forms of IT affect the middle class

Nir Jaimovich and Henry E. Siu

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Low-wage workforce

Workforce Development

Meet the low-wage workforce

Martha Ross and Nicole Bateman

November 7, 2019

Blog Posts

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Up Front

Class Notes: Elite college admissions, data on SNAP, and more

Chenoah Sinclair and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Target store

The Avenue

Black Friday shopping season sheds light on self-checkout and the curse of ‘so-so technologies’

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

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Future Development

How inclusive is growth?

Meagan Dooley and Homi Kharas

Friday, November 22, 2019

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Events

Productivity slowdown and wage stagnation: Causes and policy implications

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST

Building Opportunity For All – Philadelphia

8:50 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The forgotten Americans: An economic agenda for a divided nation

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

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2017

Does Character Matter?

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2015

Transpacific Rebalancing

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2015

Experts

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Up Front

Are the kids alright? Saving and wealth accumulation among the millennial generation

William G. Gale

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

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Up Front

College sports joins the marketplace, with limits

Robert E. Litan

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Isabel V. Sawhill

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Children and Families, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

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Multimedia

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Podcast Episode

What does the GM auto workers’ strike tell us about the strength of unions?

Joseph W. Kane and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 25, 2019

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Up Front

Tackling zoning to help the middle class: 5 policy approaches

Tiffany Ford and Jenny Schuetz

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at an event at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in Davenport, Iowa, U.S. June 11, 2019. REUTERS/Jordan Gale - RC1AFE17D7B0

Up Front

Joe Biden’s ideas to help the middle class

Ashley Schobert and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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