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The Toolkit for Increasing Upward Mobility in Your Community offers practical guidance for local leaders who are working to advance mobility from poverty so that all residents can thrive.
This toolkit provides community foundations with a five-step model for effective policy advocacy.
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Explore data on income, education, and housing in the five largest US cities to learn more about the Upward Mobility Data Dashboard and other tools for understanding and addressing mobility and equity challenges.
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For too many Americans, upward mobility—for themselves and for their children—is a dream denied. And as inequality continues to increase, most Americans do not feel in control of their own economic futures.
The Mobility Metrics offer insights into a community’s strength across five essential pillars of support all people need to achieve upward mobility. But local leaders need to know how to use the metrics to be able to effect meaningful change. This guide highlights six ways you can leverage the
Looking for guidance on examining and interpreting Mobility Metrics data for your community? This guide, and accompanying worksheet, offer five steps for getting started using an example analysis from Washington, DC, and screenshots from the Upward Mobility Data Dashboard. It also includes
The Mobility Metrics are signals of communities’ strengths and areas for growth related to upward mobility. However, on their own, they don’t give local leaders a complete picture of the systems that uphold or undermine mobility in a community and their disparate effects on different groups of
The Mobility Metrics data are a valuable resource for researchers trying to understand how characteristics of a place either hinder or promote the aspirations of its residents.
Third places facilitate social connections that improve a person’s health, sense of belonging, and access to long-term prosperity, but these public spaces are in decline.
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June 2024 Large and persistent community level racial inequities in young adults’ credit scores shape their access to credit and borrowing costs. New evidence suggests that a significant portion of racial disparities in young adults’ credit scores reflects systemic differences in wealth-building
June 2024 Seventy percent of Superfund sites are within a mile of federally assisted housing. Such proximity to environmental harms has cascading effects on people’s well-being, further exacerbating the burdens of poverty. Majority of counties with the most affordable housing and best air quality
June 2024 Among the 350 largest counties in the US, the median rate of low birth weight was 8.1 percent in 2018. The median rate of low birth weight was 13.5 percent among births to Black mothers, which is more than twice the median rate among births to white mothers. More diverse neighborhoods and
