A new report by the Pew Economic Mobility Project shows that while all communities were impacted by the Great Recession, families in high-poverty…

There has been an explosion of research over the past decade that shows how important the first few years of a child’s life are in terms of brain…

Tomorrow I'm scheduled to sit down with economist James Heckman of the University of Chicago. Heckman won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2000 for a…

I've been kind of obsessed with neuroscience lately. The study of our brains has made some amazing leaps in the past decade or so, particularly when it…

We know that children are aware of class, but Jessi Streib at the University of Michigan showed in a study published last year just how early this can…

According to First Focus and Save the Children, two organizations that advocate for children at the state and federal levels, the United States is barely…

Here is a question that is at the core of our work at State of Opportunity: How much of your economic destiny is tied to your parents, and how much do you…

Yesterday, I reported on the Teen Parent Center in Grand Rapids, a shelter for teen moms who've been kicked out of their homes. I also pointed out that,…

Ever wondered what the poor and the rich spend their money on? Well, thanks to Lam Vo at NPR we now have a picture, literally.Vo’s pictogram, which breaks…

I have to confess, I'm a little obsessed with measures of economic mobility. These measures address the basic elements of the American Dream. We get…