Ensuring the recovery leads to more equitable economic and health outcomes requires understanding current trends and how they differ by race and ethnicity. To help design race-conscious solutions, this virtual tool tracks key measures of impact, including food insufficiency, income loss, health insurance coverage, and mortgage and rent payment.
Most colleges can easily find a diverse group of potential students, but many have student bodies that don’t look like the pool of potential students they could enroll. Explore racial and ethnic patterns in enrollment trends at two- and four-year colleges and universities.
As the Urban Institute’s new senior vice president, Kimberlyn Leary will manage research and program development across the organization. Previously, she was an associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and directed the Enabling Change program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
To lessen and reverse the pandemic's effects on Black families’ income and wealth, we must consciously consider the persistent effects of the country’s legacy of human trafficking, bondage, and disadvantage.
Research shows investing in Housing First services to end chronic homelessness would help address the racial disparities in homelessness caused by decades of discrimination, save taxpayer dollars, and help people find greater stability in their lives.
How can we translate “essential” work into policy and practice to ensure all workers are treated with dignity and respect? The National Domestic Workers Alliance’s Ai-jen Poo and Urban’s Elisabeth Jacobs joined Urban president Sarah Rosen Wartell to discuss.
