Income Inequality & Social Mobility

General Motors assembly workers and their supporters gather to picket outside the General Motors Bowling Green plant during the United Auto Workers (UAW) national strike in Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S., September 20, 2019. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston - RC122F87C370

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

Joseph W. Kane and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 25, 2019

Apartment buildings are shown in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S. October 2, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake - RC1DE752AF80

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

Joe Biden’s ideas to help the middle class

Ashley Schobert and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Brandon Stanard, 24, a student at Lincoln University, recites Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech to a gathering crowd at the base of a statue of the civil rights leader at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2019. REUTERS/Allison Shelley TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1FB437CDE0

Black History Month: Creating environments of belonging

Camille Busette and Fred Dews

Friday, February 1, 2019

Christian Reyes works on some wiring at Felsomat in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg

The promise of community colleges as pathways to high-quality jobs

Elizabeth Mann Levesque, Martha Ross, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

A family holds hands as they cross the street on the first day of Spring in New York, NY, U.S. March 20, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - RC1C40DCE220

The rise of the middle class safety net

Richard V. Reeves and Christopher Pulliam

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Panelists on stage at the launch event of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative.

A policy wish list for the middle class

Richard V. Reeves and Katherine Guyot

Monday, May 14, 2018

A young woman holds her daughter at a playground in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois.

Improving opportunity with policies for women and families

Isabel V. Sawhill and Fred Dews

Friday, May 11, 2018

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson testifies to the House Appropriations Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Subcommittee on the FY2019 budget request for the Department Housing and Urban Development on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 20, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC1382812B90

Why is HUD being sued?

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Vice President Joe Biden speaking at a Brookings-Biden Institute event, May 8, 2018 (Paul Morigi photos)

Vice President Joe Biden’s 5 ideas for helping America’s middle class

Wednesday, May 9, 2018