While the economic rewards for success in the United States are remarkable and growing larger by the year, the economic gap between the rich and poor is widening...
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While the economic rewards for success in the United States are remarkable and growing larger by the year, the economic gap between the rich and poor is widening...
more
Mobility Releases A Promising Start
Mobility's evaluation of Year Up's innovative workforce program for young adults demonstrates that Year Up participants earned nearly $3500, or 30 percent more than members of a control group in their first year in the labor market. Participants' earnings were driven by higher wages in the targeted sectors of information technology and investment operations. The findings are among the most promising in the youth employment field in many years.
Mobility's Work Featured in New York Times story on Year Up
Mobility's evaluation of Year Up was featured in the New York Times column Fixes.
Mobility Releases Major Report on Immigrants and Economic Opportunity
Get the Report (pdf)
Report on Strengthening Correctional Education Released
The Working Poor Families Project (WPFP) has released a policy brief authored by Mobility staff that makes recommendations for improving correctional education policies and programs.Get the Policy Brief (pdf)
Mark Elliott Presents at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Mobility President Mark Elliott was the featured speaker at an event hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the Urban Institute focused on neighborhood employment in a decentralized metropolitan labor market.
Growing Inequality in the United States
A recent article by Timothy Noah in Slate is an excellent primer on the causes of rising income inequality. In the article Noah reports on most of the major research done on the topic and provides an overall assessment of the extent inequality has been affected by trends in organized labor, technology, tax policy and education among others. In the end, Noah argues, responsibility lies with the federal government.
Brookings Report on Economic Mobility
For more than two centuries, economic opportunity and the prospect of upward mobility have formed the bedrock upon which the American story has been anchored — inspiring people in distant lands to seek our shores and sustaining the unwavering optimism of Americans at home. From the hopes of the earliest settlers to the aspirations of today's diverse population, the American Dream unites us in a common quest for individual and national success. But new data suggest that this once solid ground may well be shifting. This raises provocative questions about the continuing ability of all Americans to move up the economic ladder and calls into question whether the American economic meritocracy is still alive and well.
The Economic Mobility Corporation (Mobility) identifies, develops and evaluates programs and policies that enable disadvantaged individuals to acquire the education, skills and networks needed to succeed in the labor market so that they can support themselves and their families.
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