Dr. Scott Winship, a social mobility and poverty researcher with the American Enterprise Institute, will present “Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility” from noon to 1 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 6.

The Poverty, Inequality and Human Development team conducts research across a wide range of topics that broadly covers issues related to improving the wellbeing of people, particularly less well-off ...

Escaping multidimensional poverty in Gauteng requires targeted, practical and complementary interventions. Examples include subsidised transport, decentralised clinics, or housing closer to jobs. This ...

The share of people with income below poverty, on average between 1979 and 2021, declines from 13.3 percent under the OPM to just 3.5 percent using CBO’s improved methodology: ...

In conversations about income mobility—a staple of the 2024 election—there is no consensus about the main barriers to mobility. There is a persistent confusion among academics and policymakers ...

Allgood, K. L., et al. (2023). Social vulnerability and new mobility disability among adults with polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-confirmed SARS-CoV-2: Michigan COVID-19 Recovery Surveillance Study.

I wrote a column a few years ago about poverty as a root cause of gun violence in Knoxville. Many candidates running for office in 2019 cited my piece and the staggering poverty rate.

Others identify job creation and wage growth as key efforts to fight poverty. Yet, some criticize the employment argument for poverty reduction as naïve, misleading, or flat-out wrong.

Middle-income Filipinos are crucial to economic growth and national development but remain vulnerable to economic shocks and ...

By the Editorial Board en Carson, secretary of housing and urban development, has a bizarre understanding of poverty and social mobility. It’s all just “a state of mind,” he says.