Income Inequality & Social Mobility

A family from the Cheyenne River tribe plays together near Turtle Island during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. November 26, 2016. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith - RC11F6A7B3D0

40 years ago we stopped the practice of separating American Indian families. Let’s not reverse course.

Thursday, October 11, 2018

A man holds up his mobile phone showing a M-Pesa mobile money transaction page for the photographer at an open air market in Kibera in Kenya's capital Nairobi December 31, 2014. Safaricom, Kenya's biggest telecoms firm, is a model of how technology can be used to financially include millions of people with mobile telephones but without access to traditional infrastructure such as the banks that are available to the wealthy or those living in cities. Safaricom in 2007 pioneered its M-Pesa mobile money transfer technology, now used across Africa, Asia and Europe. It proved that money can be made from people who earn a few dollars a day. REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TELECOMS) - GM1EACV1IZY01

The future of inclusive growth

Shanta Devarajan

Thursday, October 11, 2018

A woman and child walk past a dilapidated building in a run-down neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland March 9, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY) - GM1E73A0I1C01

50 years after the Kerner Commission report, the nation is still grappling with many of the same issues

Marcus Casey and Bradley Hardy

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

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Which places made progress against poverty in 2017?

Elizabeth Kneebone

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

A family hold hands as they walk through Times Square during a warm winter day in New York March 6, 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY) - GM1E8370EKC01

Income data from the Census may not tell full story on trends

Gary Burtless and Christopher Pulliam

Monday, September 17, 2018

Joe Smith rides on a swing with his daughter Rowan as his wife Andrea plays with her children Norah and Chase at a playground in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, May 9, 2014. Three of their children have been diagnosed with atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, and one is a carrier which was diagnosed using genome sequencing. Once strictly the domain of research labs, gene-sequencing tests increasingly are being used to help understand the genetic causes of rare disease, putting insurance companies in the position of deciding whether to pay the $5,000 to $17,000 for the tests. Genetics experts say that sequencing more than doubles the chances that families get a diagnosis, and saves spending on multiple tests of single genes. Even if no treatment is found, the tests can also end hugely expensive medical odysseys as parents frantically search for the cause of their child's furtive illness. Picture taken May 9, 2014. To match Insight HEALTH-SEQUENCING/ REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY HEALTH SOCIETY BUSINESS) - GM1EA6J1MA301

People in the middle of the middle are richer than those in the middle, says Pew. Mmm.

Richard V. Reeves and Christopher Pulliam

Friday, September 7, 2018

A mother swings her young son as they visit the cherry blossoms along the tidal basin in Washington April 2, 2007. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES) - GM1DUYKXVVAA

The Middle Class: Our Definition

Richard V. Reeves and Katherine Guyot

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Hagerstown, Maryland. Credit: Google Maps

Addiction by design: Place, isolation, and deaths of despair

Jennifer S. Vey

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

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Only four out of ten working-age adults with disabilities are employed

Martha Ross and Nicole Bateman

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Peer 1 client Robert A. plays hopscotch with his 5-year-old daughter Isabella during Kid's Day at Peer 1 in Denver November 7, 2015. Peer 1 is a drug and alcohol rehabilitation programme for men, many having spent years in and out of prison, in Denver, Colorado. The men have often tried and failed over and over to turn their life around. With histories of abuse as children and living on the streets, they come to Peer 1 hoping to turn away from addiction and crime, to rebuild their lives and learn how to integrate into society. Treatment includes family group therapy, meditation and trust-building exercises. REUTERS/Rick WilkingPICTURE 25 OF 26 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "PEER 1: PRISON, DEATH OR RECOVERY". SEARCH "PEER WILKING" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF20000082782

Declining absolute mobility rates for the middle class since 1950

Richard V. Reeves and Katherine Guyot

Wednesday, July 25, 2018