This year, Urban experts examined the systemic barriers that threaten an equitable recovery, analyzed the effectiveness of federal recovery policies, identified lessons from here and abroad to strengthen our systems so we’re better prepared for future crises, and much more.
Evidence debunks the myth that laziness or poor choices cause poverty. But safety net programs are designed to blame individual shortcomings, and their structure ignores systemic barriers rooted in structural racism.
Four key elements of the American Rescue Plan Act would reduce the projected poverty rate for 2021 by more than one-third, bringing the annual poverty rate to 8.7 percent and reducing the number of children living in poverty by more than half.
The Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program provided students and kids younger than 6 with free and reduced-price meal benefits during the pandemic. Explore key components of approved plans, track implementation options, and see how the program is being put into practice.
When data are collected and communicated carelessly, data analysis and data visualizations have an outsize capacity to mislead, misrepresent, and harm communities that already experience inequity and discrimination.
