Income Inequality & Social Mobility

Homeowner Gary Gless leans over his balcony, as drilling wells are seen in the background, in Los Angeles, California December 11, 2013. The United States has a long history of keeping industrial activity out of middle and upper-middle-class residential neighborhoods. But that is starting to change with the spread of new technology for oil and gas drilling, such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." Freeport-McMoRan, part of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc, said that, for the past three years, its surveys of the oilfield and surrounding communities have found no connection between its activities and "localized claims of property damage." It said it would continue to evaluate the issue. Picture taken December 11, 2013. To match Analysis FRACKING-HOMEOWNERS/ REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: REAL ESTATE BUSINESS ENERGY) - GM1E9CC1QBF01

Middle class incomes have slumped, stagnated or grown, depending on the measure

Richard V. Reeves

Friday, December 7, 2018

Houses

How America’s racist past cost homeowners $156 billion

CNN Thursday, December 6, 2018

Hewlett-Packard ProLiant commercial data servers destined for cloud computing are assembled by workers at a company manufacturing facility in Houston November 19, 2013. REUTERS/Donna Carson (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - TM4E9BJ1OPO01

How the Great Recession hurt the middle class—twice

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Housing-devaluation

The devaluation of assets in Black neighborhoods

Andre M. Perry, Jonathan Rothwell, and David Harshbarger

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Workers on the assembly line replace the back covers of 32-inch television sets.

Work, skills, community: Restoring opportunity for the working class

Oren Cass, Robert Doar, Kenneth A. Dodge, William A. Galston, Ron Haskins, Tamar Jacoby, Anne Kim, Lawrence Mead, Bruce Reed, Isabel V. Sawhill, Ryan Streeter, Abel Valenzuela Jr., and W. Bradford Wilcox

Monday, November 26, 2018

A customer opens his wallet at a Macy's cash register on Black Friday in New York November 26, 2010. Early-bird bargain-hunters scooped up "Black Friday" deals on everything from TVs to toys across the United States, but many said discounts were not as deep as those offered last year. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY) - GM1E6BQ1QRT01

Restoring middle-class incomes: redistribution won’t do

Richard V. Reeves

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

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

People enjoying the public space

Why we need to invest in transformative placemaking

Jennifer S. Vey

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Women walk past tomatoes displayed for sale in baskets along the kano-Zaria road in Kano, northwest Nigeria August 21, 2017. Picture taken August 21, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye. - RC1B78CDB380

How gender determines intergenerational mobility in Africa

Théophile T. Azomahou

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Transformative placemaking

Opportunities for transformative placemaking: Newcastle, Wyoming

Friday, November 9, 2018