Poverty

Nathan Allen, 65, poses for a portrait in front of the motorhome where he sleeps in a homeless RV and tent encampment near LAX airport in Los Angeles, California, United States, October 26, 2015. Allen lost his job as a handyman, and so couldn't afford to pay the rent for his apartment. Los Angeles is grappling with a massive homelessness problem, as forecasted El Nino downpours threaten to add to the misery of thousands of people who sleep on the streets. Mayor Eric Garcetti has proposed spending $100 million to combat the problem in the sprawling metropolis but stopped short of declaring a state of emergency. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson PICTURE 16 OF 17 - SEARCH "NICHOLSON MOTORHOME" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000270563

Social Issues

Progress paradoxes and sustainable growth

Carol Graham

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

People walk past roadside stalls with umbrellas in the central business district, near Marina in Lagos, Nigeria December 13, 2016.REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RC119A3413E0

Future Development

Rethinking global poverty reduction in 2019

Homi Kharas, Kristofer Hamel, and Martin Hofer

Thursday, December 13, 2018

REFILE - CORRECTING PUNCTUATION Displaced Iraqi residents carry biscuits and bottles of water as they walk past other residents waiting for the food distribution of an aid organization during the first day of Eid al-Fitr celebration in West Mosul, Iraq June 25, 2017. REUTERS/Erik De Castro TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC19775F43A0

Report

Do social protection programs improve life satisfaction?

Talajeh Livani and Carol Graham

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Unused cooling towers are seen overlooking an informal settlement as locals walk before sunset in Soweto, South Africa August 5, 2015. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - GF20000014477

Africa in focus

Figure of the week: Understanding poverty in Africa

Nirav Patel

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Reports

Economic Development

Countering the geography of discontent: Strategies for left-behind places

Clara Hendrickson, Mark Muro, and William A. Galston

November, 2018

U.S. Economy

Work requirements and safety net programs

Lauren Bauer, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, and Jay Shambaugh

Monday, October 15, 2018

Economic Development

State of the Heartland: Factbook 2018

Mark Muro, Jacob Whiton, Robert Maxim, and Ross DeVol

October 2018

Students eat lunch in the cafeteria at a middle school in San Diego, California March 7, 2011. San Diego's Healthy Works Project received the country's largest grant, 16 million dollars, from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 to help combat wellness and the obesity epidemic. Picture taken March 7, 2011. To match Special Report USA-FOODLOBBY/ REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E84R1FJZ01

Education

A promising alternative to subsidized lunch receipt as a measure of student poverty

Matthew M. Chingos

Thursday, August 16, 2018

A woman walks past a fenced-up store in downtown Gary, Indiana, October 23, 2013. Struggling U.S. Rust Belt cities for years have tried to counter the loss of manufacturing jobs with big, expensive projects including casinos and stadiums. Now, Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson is going small with strategic, narrowly focused ideas such as selling vacant homes for $1, demolishing derelict buildings and basic neighborhood clean-up projects that produce immediate results. Picture taken October 23. To match story USA-CITIES/RUSTBELT REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E9BA03NY01

Report

The human costs of the productivity paradox in the USA

Carol Graham

Friday, December 1, 2017

Blog Posts

A woman combs her hair in the back courtyard of a traditional colonial-era Board House dating back about a century in the Murray Town neighbourhood of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown April 28, 2012. Board Houses are a reconstruction of cabin-like structures built in the 18th century on the American eastern seaboard. There were some modifications though, notably a three-foot base layer of porous local stone (seen here) that helped anchor the house down during Sierra Leone's torrential wet season. Picture taken April 28, 2012. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (SIERRA LEONE - Tags: SOCIETY) ATTENTION EDITORS - PICTURE 06 OF 29 OF PACKAGE 'FREETOWN - FADING ARCHITECTURE' - GM1E8531KOM01

Future Development

Why the World Bank is taking a wide-angle view of poverty

Dhiraj Sharma

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

The Avenue

‘The Renters Strike Back’

Jenny Schuetz

Thursday, September 27, 2018

The Avenue

Which places made progress against poverty in 2017?

Elizabeth Kneebone

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

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Events

2018

Nov

Past Event

The new dynamics of global energy and climate: A conversation with Sustainable Energy for All CEO Rachel Kyte

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST

“The S Word”

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST

Race, class and culture: A conversation with William Julius Wilson and J.D. Vance

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM EDT

Washington, DC

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Related Books

Inequality

By Michele Alacevich and Anna Soci

2017

The Last Mile in Ending Extreme Poverty

Edited by Laurence Chandy, Hiroshi Kato, and Homi Kharas

2015

Generation Unbound

By Isabel V. Sawhill

2014

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Multimedia

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

Children & Families

Improving opportunity with policies for women and families

Isabel V. Sawhill and Fred Dews

Friday, May 11, 2018

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

Brookings Now

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

Fred Dews

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Social Mobility Memos

Takeaways from the conversation on race, class and culture

Camille Busette, Richard V. Reeves, and Eleanor Krause

Friday, September 8, 2017

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Poverty

Progress paradoxes and sustainable growth

Rethinking global poverty reduction in 2019

Do social protection programs improve life satisfaction?

Figure of the week: Understanding poverty in Africa

Reports

Countering the geography of discontent: Strategies for left-behind places

Work requirements and safety net programs

State of the Heartland: Factbook 2018

A promising alternative to subsidized lunch receipt as a measure of student poverty

The human costs of the productivity paradox in the USA

Blog Posts

Why the World Bank is taking a wide-angle view of poverty

‘The Renters Strike Back’

Which places made progress against poverty in 2017?

Events

The new dynamics of global energy and climate: A conversation with Sustainable Energy for All CEO Rachel Kyte

“The S Word”

Race, class and culture: A conversation with William Julius Wilson and J.D. Vance

Related Books

Inequality

The Last Mile in Ending Extreme Poverty

Generation Unbound

Multimedia

Improving opportunity with policies for women and families

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

Takeaways from the conversation on race, class and culture

More on Poverty

Closing the digital and economic divides in rural America

Throwing money at a problem can work, but we have to count the money we spend

Figure of the week: Growth, income polarization, and poverty reduction in Africa

Children’s exposure to food insecurity is still worse than it was before the Great Recession

Maximizing the impact of new Opportunity Zones requires transparency and citizen engagement

The ethics of reducing inequality