Inequality & Mobility

Inequality describes the extent to which resources or outcomes (e.g., income, wealth, consumption, health, education) are similarly or unevenly distributed among individuals, groups, populations, or societies. Mobility refers to the frequency with which individuals, groups, or populations within a society change social or economic position in areas such as income, wealth, education, occupation, and the like.

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Declining Returns to Low-Wage Work in Wisconsin

  • Anna Walther
  • Poverty Fact Sheet
  • 2019
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Ensuring Equity in Evolving High School Career and Technical Education Policies

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2019
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Improving Federal Student Loan Policy

  • Karen Dynan
  • Webinar
  • 2019
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The brain science of poverty and its policy implications

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2019
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Reducing high infant mortality rates in the United States

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2019
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Walter Stern on Race and Education in New Orleans: Creating The Segregated City

  • Walter Stern
  • Podcasts
  • 2019
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A history of residential segregation in the United States

  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2019
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Segregation and subprime lending within and across metropolitan areas

  • Jackelyn Hwang, Michael Hankinson, and Kreg Steven Brown
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2019
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Barriers to public service delivery and receipt

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2019
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Jordan Conwell on Parental Income, Race, Gender, and Children’s School Readiness

  • Jordan Conwell
  • Podcasts
  • 2019