Segregation, race, and charter schools: What do we know? (Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst, Richard V. Reeves, Edward Rodrigue, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/segregation-race-and-charter-schools-what-do-we-know/

Time for justice: Tackling race inequalities in health and housing (Dayna Bowen Matthew, Richard V. Reeves, Edward Rodrigue, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/time-for-justice-tackling-race-inequalities-in-health-and-housing/

Clinton’s Child Tax Credit proposal: A good start on helping low- and middle-income families (Isabel V. Sawhill, Edward Rodrigue, Brookings)

Hillary Clinton’s proposed changes to the Child Tax Credit (CTC) would help poor and middle class families, especially those with young children. Although important design challenges remain, in broad terms the plan is a positive step towards reducing income inequality.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2016/10/13/clintons-child-tax-credit-proposal-a-good-start-on-helping-low-and-middle-income-families/

Transfer season: Lowering the barrier between community college and four-year college (Richard V. Reeves, Edward Rodrigue, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2016/06/21-transfer-season-lowering-the-barrier-between-community-college-and-four-year-college-reeves

Fewer field trips mean some students miss more than a day at the museum (Richard V. Reeves, Edward Rodrigue, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2016/06/08-value-of-field-trips-for-poorer-kids-reeves

To help low-income American households, we have to close the "work gap" (Isabel V. Sawhill, Nathan Joo, Edward Rodrigue, Brookings)

When Franklin Roosevelt delivered his second inaugural address on January 20, 1936 he lamented the “one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.” He challenged Americans to measure their collective progress not by “whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; [but rather] whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” In our new paper, One third of a nation: Strategies for helping working families, we ask a simple question: How are we doing?

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2016/05/31-help-low-income-close-work-gap-sawhill

Colorado's poor now get to visit the dentist (Richard V. Reeves, Edward Rodrigue, Brookings)

“A society of equals is a society in which disadvantages do not cluster,” say Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit in their book Disadvantage. Low income matters greatly in itself, of course. But it also matters because it brings other difficulties along with it, like poor health and/or a lack of health insurance. An important goal of policy is to “de-cluster” these disadvantages

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2016/05/26-colorado-poor-now-get-to-visit-dentist-reeves

Five evils: Multidimensional poverty and race in America (Richard V. Reeves, Edward Rodrigue, Elizabeth Kneebone, Brookings)

Poverty is about a lack of money, but it’s not only about that. As a lived experience, poverty is also characterized by ill health, insecurity, discomfort, isolation, and more. To put it another way: Poverty is multidimensional, and its dimensions often cluster together to intensify the negative effects of being poor.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/2016/five-evils-multidimensional-poverty-race

The American middle-class is still thriving in Utah (Richard V. Reeves, Edward Rodrigue, Brookings)

The condition of the American middle class is a near-obsession of politicians and policy wonks alike. Whenever the middle class is mentioned, words like ”struggling,” “stagnant,” and “squeezed” are rarely far away. A recent report from the Pew Research Center went a step further and declared that the middle class is actually shrinking. Of course, a great deal here depends on definitions. In their report “The American Middle Class is Losing Ground,” the authors define middle-class households as those earning between two-thirds and two-times the American median income, adjusted for household size.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/03/10-middle-class-utah-reeves-rodrigue