Income Inequality & Social Mobility

REFILE - CORRECTING ID Farmer Isabel Milligan drives a tractor as she weeds and transplants crops on the farm in Amagansett, New York, U.S., July 11, 2019. Picture taken July 11, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsay Morris - RC1B9CA1E620

The geography of desperation in America: Labor force participation, mobility trends, place, and well-being

Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto

Tuesday, October 15, 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

A general view of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington May 27, 2015. Tax return information for about 100,000 U.S. taxpayers was illegally accessed by cyber criminals over the past four months, U.S. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of data thefts that have alarmed American consumers. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - GF10000109446

Who are the rich and how might we tax them more?

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Ardana McFerren sweeps leafs outside of her home in the historic Pullman neighborhood in Chicago November 20, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce the designation of the Pullman neighborhood as a national park on February 19, according to park advocates. The neighborhood's brick homes and ornate public buildings were built in the 1800s by industrialist George Pullman as a blue-collar utopia to house workers from his sleeper car factory. Picture taken November 20, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Nelles (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT POLITICS) - TM3EABN1EN701

America’s formerly redlined neighborhoods have changed, and so must solutions to rectify them

Andre M. Perry and David Harshbarger

Monday, October 14, 2019

Talent development

Talent-driven economic development: A new vision and agenda for regional and state economies

Joseph Parilla and Sifan Liu

October 15, 2019

Houses in DC

Restrictive zoning is impeding DC’s goal to build more housing

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Black family

Black household income is rising across the United States

Thursday, October 3, 2019

People walk on the esplanade of La Defense, in the financial and business district, west of Paris, France, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RC1B9BB86D30

Class Notes: Harvard legacy preferences, wealth taxation, and more

Chenoah Sinclair and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

People walk by the New York Stock Exchange in New York's financial district March 11, 2014. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS) - GM1EA3C035U01

Yes, capitalism is broken. To recover, liberals must eat humble pie.

Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Newark Prep Charter School students listen to academic coach, Robbie Garland, while taking part in an advisory session at the school in Newark, New Jersey April 16, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION) - TM4E94Q0XVB01

AI is coming to schools, and if we’re not careful, so will its biases

Andre M. Perry and Nicol Turner Lee

Thursday, September 26, 2019