Economic Mobility

Understanding the intricate dynamic between brain development in children, household poverty levels, and long-term economic outcomes has considerable implications for achieving societal objectives. Where we land on the economic distribution as adults is...

"When we talk about innovation and citizens’ rights in Mexico City, we’re talking about using cutting-edge technology to bring education, connectivity, and security closer to everyday life while fostering a government that is honest and free of corruption...

Few obstacles create as obvious a barrier to economic mobility as lack of access to a job. In urban areas, that lack of access tends to be geographically concentrated in communities of color. One of the first cities to formally recognize this problem was...

At our spring 2023 Project on Municipal Innovation event the world-renowned economist, author, and Harvard professor Edward Glaeser spoke to chiefs of staff and deputy mayors of 30 of the largest US cities about the history of cities and pandemics, the...

January 19, 2023 Economic Mobility In 2012, Jonathan Mintz launched the Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund, a 501c(3) corporation with a mission to “leverage municipal engagement to improve the financial stability of low and moderate income...

March 9, 2022 Equity In this episode Professor Steve Goldsmith discusses the new report Segmented Pricing for Fines and Fees with co-authors Jean-Pierre (JP) Dubé, Bryan Glenn, and Shayne Kavanagh. Part of the broader Rethinking Revenue project, they...

February 22, 2022 Workforce In this episode Editor Betsy Gardner interviews Professor Steve Goldsmith and Kate Markin Coleman about their newest book, Growing Fairly: How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce Development . They discuss the...

February 22, 2022 Workforce The following is an excerpt from the book Growing Fairly: How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce Development by Professor Steve Goldsmith and Kate Markin Coleman, out now. For decades, public and nongovernment...

November 17, 2021 Economic Mobility This episode is a conversation between Professor Steve Goldsmith and Ricardo Hausmann, the Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy and director of the Growth Lab, one of the most well...