Topic Poverty

Family income for those at the bottom of the U.S. economic distribution have barely budged over the past several decades, while those at the top have skyrocketed. Twelve percent of Americans live in poverty today, including nearly 10 million children. Equitable Growth is growing the evidence base for how rising inequality affects the economic wellbeing of those at the bottom of the economic ladder in order to support the creation of policies that provide both a safety net and a springboard to opportunity for the most disadvantaged among us.

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The economic impact of housing insecurity in the United States

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In Conversation

In Conversation with Mark Rank

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Income support programs boost earnings for low-wage workers by reducing household poverty in the United States

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Disaggregating Growth

Newly released U.S. poverty statistics show that recent economic growth is not broadly shared

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We can cut child poverty in the United States in half in 10 years

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As the U.S. rural economy changes, social safety net programs buoy rural residents above the poverty line

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The Matching Multiplier and the Amplification of Recessions

Tax & MacroeconomicsInequality & Mobility
Coronavirus Recession

The only thing better than strengthening federal social supports now to prevent a coronavirus recession is strengthening them forever

Inequality & MobilityFamiliesLabor
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Baltimore Study: Credit Scores

Tax & MacroeconomicsInequality & Mobility
Vision 2020

Improved public school teaching of racial oppression could enable U.S. society to grasp the roots and effects of racial and economic inequality

Inequality & Mobility
Vision 2020

Addressing the need for affordable, high-quality early childhood care and education for all in the United States

FamiliesInequality & MobilityLabor
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Earnings instability and mobility over our working lives: Improving short- and long-term economic well-being for U.S. workers

LaborFamiliesInequality & Mobility
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Policies to strengthen our nation’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Inequality & MobilityFamilies
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Race and the lack of intergenerational economic mobility in the United States

Inequality & MobilityTax & MacroeconomicsLabor
Vision 2020

Overcoming social exclusion: Addressing race and criminal justice policy in the United States

Inequality & MobilityFamilies
Vision 2020

The logistics of a reparations program in the United States

Tax & MacroeconomicsInequality & MobilityFamilies
Vision 2020

Promote economic and racial justice: Eliminate student loan debt and establish a right to higher education across the United States

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Encouraging banks to serve the credit needs of everyone

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