Richard Reeves’ “Class Notes”
“CLASS NOTES”A twice-monthly newsletter with new research and commentary on families, social class, and inequality, curated by the Future of the Middle Class Initiative at Brookings.”
Postsecondary Enrollment by School District
Pipelines for who’s enrolling where by demographic.
Community College Performance Measures
KPIs for NC Community Colleges
NYT Create your own Income Mobility Animation
“Pick any two demographic groups. You can sort by gender and by the income bracket in which children were raised. You can watch what happens to them as adult individuals, or in their adult households, in a variety of scenarios.”
Opportunity Atlas
“The Opportunity AtlasWhich neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty?The Opportunity Atlas answers this question using anonymous data following 20 million Americans from childhood to their mid-30s.Now you can trace the roots of today’s affluence and poverty back to the neighborhoods where people grew up.See where and for whom opportunity has […]
Results For America Catalog
“Explore local strategies to improve economic mobilityLocal governments are on the front lines of one of the defining challenges of our time—advancing economic mobility for low-income youth, families, and communities.This site provides resources on evidence-based practices, programs, and policies designed to improve outcomes that drive upward economic mobility.We hope that these materials help accelerate change […]
Raj Chetty TEDx Talk
“Economist Raj Chetty presents data showing that it is easier to achieve the traditional American Dream of upward income mobility if one lives in Canada than in the United States. Using big data, he shows that there is tremendous variation in rates of upward mobility in the U.S., with some cities, like San Francisco, offering […]
Is America Dreaming
“Brookings Fellow Richard Reeves explores inequality and opportunity in America with Legos, using them to explain the chances for economic success of Americans born at the bottom of the economic ladder. Reeves shows the chances that the poorest fifth of Americans have to rise to the top, based on their race, the marital status of […]