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 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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In Conversation with Mark Rank

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Equitable Growth Presents: Dispelling Poverty Myths and Expanding Income Support

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The child allowance will pay dividends for the entire U.S. economy far into the future

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Boosting Wages

Place-conscious federal policies to reduce regional economic disparities in the United States

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Boosting Wages

Sovereignty and improved economic outcomes for American Indians: Building on the gains made since 1990

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Public investments in education can spur equitable growth, pay for themselves, and create jobs for a stronger economic recovery

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Coronavirus Recession

Main Street’s workers, families, and small businesses are now suffering as Wall Street prospers from policies to fight the coronavirus recession

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Wage discrimination and the exploitation of workers in the U.S. labor market

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Coronavirus Recession

Get more money immediately to U.S. families and help them out of the coronavirus recession

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The impacts of welfare cuts on well-being during the Great Recession: Evidence from linked U.S. administrative and survey data

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Vision 2020

Addressing the U.S. racial economic mobility and inequality divides

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Coronavirus Recession

Twenty-one policy resources to combat the coronavirus recession

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