Social Issues

Chattanooga

The Avenue

How Chattanooga, Tenn. is leveraging digital inclusion to open its innovation district to all

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

A man walks past an empty house marked for demolition in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, November 20, 2009. Buffalo has 15,000 vacant lots from houses that have been demolished, amounting to 3200 acres of vacant land. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES BUSINESS SOCIETY)

The Avenue

Addressing poverty can heal an increasingly divided country

Monday, December 23, 2019

The storefront of an Advance America loan store is shown in Palm Springs, California, U.S. June 2, 2016. REUTERS/Sam Mircovich - S1AETHPRMZAB

Up Front

Financial well-being: Measuring financial perceptions and experiences in low- and moderate-income households

Stephen Roll, Olga Kondratjeva, and Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Friday, December 13, 2019

A girl holds a sign that reads: "Let's stop climate change", during a protest against climate change in Bogota, Colombia May 24, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez - RC1BF6638B60

Education Plus Development

National climate strategies are forgetting about girls, children, and youth

Christina Kwauk, Jessica Cooke, Elisa Hara, and Joni Pegram

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Reports

Row of houses

Housing Markets & Finance

Is zoning a useful tool or a regulatory barrier?

Thursday, October 31, 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

Campaigns & Elections

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

Andre M. Perry and David Harshbarger

Monday, October 14, 2019

Filipino students dance to take part in the One Billion Rising global campaign to end violence against women and children, during the Valentine's Day celebration at St Scholastica's College in Manila, Philippines, February 14, 2019. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1BB6610190

Report

A call for a transformative agenda for women for 2020 and beyond

Madeleine Albright, Mary Robinson, and Peggy Clark

Thursday, July 25, 2019

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Children & Families

Preventing unplanned pregnancy: Lessons from the states

Isabel V. Sawhill and Katherine Guyot

Monday, June 24, 2019

Meet the out-of-work young adults

Labor Policy & Unemployment

Meet the millions of young adults who are out of work

Martha Ross and Natalie Holmes

April 9, 2019

Blog Posts

Women apply salt to dried fish at an artisanal fish processing facility in the Senegalese coastal town of Joal-Fadiouth, April 10, 2018. Picture taken April 10, 2018. To match Special Report OCEANS-TIDE/SARDINELLA REUTERS/Sylvain Cherkaoui - RC1E49820D10

Africa in focus

Figure of the week: Gender equality in employment in Africa

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Delores Leonard (C) walks her daughters Emmarie (L) and Erin to school before heading to work at a McDonald's Restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, September 25, 2014. Leonard, a single mother raising two daughters, has been working at McDonald's for seven years and has never made more than minimum wage. Picture taken September 25, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1EAAH1LMV01

The Avenue

To lift the American economy, we need to understand the workers at the bottom of it

Martha Ross and Nicole Bateman

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Students in the Munroe Elementary School after-school garden club (L-R) Anai Carrillo, Jessica Grimaldo, Andrea Torres and Sandaley Haileseolph at the table in the foreground chop vegetables to put in a stir fry dish they would cook in Denver, Colorado May 9, 2012. The students learn to grow and prepare healthy meals in the school's garden club, with some of the food going to the school's lunch program. Colorado has the second fastest growing childhood obesity rate in the nation says non-profit LiveWell Colorado. Groups like Livewell are working to reduce childhood obesity by supporting school gardens, especially in low income areas, to provide learning about healthy food while actually providing nourishment. Studies have shown that children are more likely to try eating fresh fruit and vegetables if they are involved in growing them. Photo taken May 9, 2012. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH EDUCATION SOCIETY) - TM3E85F16B801

The Avenue

Elizabeth Warren’s comprehensive education plan recognizes community needs

Monday, October 28, 2019

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Events

Facial recognition: Coming to a street corner near you

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EST

The 2018 American Family Survey: Attitudes toward #MeToo, economic anxiety, immigration and more

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Disrupting the cycle of gun violence: A candid discussion with young Chicago residents

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

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Related Books

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U.S. Inspectors General

By Charles A. Johnson and Kathryn E. Newcomer

2019

The Future of Work

By Darrell M. West

2019

Reclaiming the American Dream

By Ben Hecht

2018

Experts

Jenny Schuetz

Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

Andre M. Perry

Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

Jennifer S. Vey

Senior Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking

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Multimedia

Nurse practitioner Gail Brown (L) an unidentified patient and other nurses look at a print out of an ultrasound from a prenatal exam at the Maternity Outreach Mobile in Phoenix, Arizona October 8, 2009. The maternity outreach program helps uninsured women living in the Phoenix metropolitan area receive the proper treatment and care during and after their pregnancy. The Maternity Outreach Mobile is equipped with two exam rooms, an ultrasound machine, an external fetal monitor, a laboratory and offers pregnancy tests, referrals and immunization for children. REUTERS/Joshua Lott (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) - WASE5A91J3I01

Podcast Episode

What can we do to reduce unplanned pregnancies?

Isabel V. Sawhill, Jack Markell, and Mark Edwards

Friday, July 19, 2019

Employees at work at an Amazon factory.

Brookings Now

Robots aren’t taking the jobs, just the paychecks—and other new findings in economics

Thursday, March 8, 2018

A shadowed family walks through a town.

Podcast Episode

The changing identity of America’s middle class

Camille Busette, Richard V. Reeves, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

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