Income growth for typical American families has slowed dramatically since 1973. Slower productivity growth and an increase in income…
When American voters head to the polls for congressional midterm elections in November, their choices seem likely to be guided more by “…
This chapter describes a new type of poverty in nation's metropolises: poor, segregated neighborhoods in which a majority of adults are…
Most Americans endorse the ideal of equal opportunity, and many interpret this ideal as requiring that children from different backgrounds…
America’s regional disparities are large and regional convergence has declined if not disappeared. This wildly uneven economic landscape…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…
The power of Pan-Africanism as a guiding vision for the continent’s development is widely studied, mostly as an aspirational phenomenon. At…
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and staffed and supported by the Urban Institute, the US Partnership on Mobility from…
Elementary school teachers’ math anxiety has been found to play a role in their students’ math achievement. The current study addresses the…