An illustration of financial well-being at the local level—looking beyond income to include credit, debt, savings, assets, and wealth.

The Upward Mobility Dashboard helps people understand key conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in communities.

This map shows the geography of debt in America at the national, state, and county levels. How does your community compare?

Timely data on Americans’ finances and the cost of basic needs by state and congressional district.

DC’s first-in-the-nation compensation program shows that improving educator compensation can provide the foundation for a more affordable, thriving child car…

Latino homeowners and communities across the United States face escalating climate risks, including hurricanes, wildfires, and flooding.

Social and Economic Policy Research

Employment alone does not guarantee financial stability for young parent workers.

Timely data on Americans’ finances and the cost of basic needs by state and congressional district.

The influential women shaping politics, business, law, media, education, nonprofits, the arts, and more across the region.

Gathering Strength has produced an analysis of accessible housing needs in Louisville, offering an example for communities seeking to address the accessible …

💰Free retirement money? Yes, really. Starting in 2027, eligible sa...

In this brief, we draw on interviews with 30 parents of children under 5 to examine families’ views on child care affordability in DC, how the cost of care a…

The success of AI governance in mortgage finance should be measured not only by whether institutions implement effective processes but by whether those proce…

Amid months of rising gas prices, a typical driver now spends $65 more on fuel each month today than they did a year ago.

Survivors offer insights and strategies that policymakers, regulators, financial institutions, insurance companies, and communities can use to help people fi…

This report offers lessons for designing and structuring philanthropic investments towards inclusive economic mobility—distilling lessons from a two-year mod…

Latino people are overrepresented in construction and contracting, both as business owners and workers, yet they’re starkly underrepresented as multifamily h…

JustFix is delivering real-time data on housing violations and eviction threats to tenants through their Building Alerts and Area Alerts tools.

We use the Urban Institute’s Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model to project how Marketplace coverage among young adults will be affected by these change…

As prediction markets increase access to sports betting, policymakers and federal regulators should consider robust consumer protections and tax policies for…

Comprehensive analysis of social safety net programs across the United States

The Latino wealth gap is one of the most urgent economic challenges of our time. For Latinos, who have long faced systemic exclusion from traditional financi…

This report provides background on the interventions included in the SIPPRA project, the target outcomes, and the evaluation design.

This brief examines how rising property insurance costs and changing insurance market conditions are affecting Latino homeownership.

One organization in Western North Carolina, PODER Emma, has combined community insights with a survey in mobile home communities, and a land parcel analysis …

The Upward Mobility Dashboard helps people understand key conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in communities.

We developed definitions for four youth apprenticeship program models that could be consistently applied to administrative data on thousands of Registered Ap…

Our checklist helps policymakers weigh what questions to ask, who to engage, and what tools are available to navigate the rapid development of data centers.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) includes several provisions that will make it harder for adults to enroll in and maintain coverage through the Afforda…

This brief distills insights and reflections from state policymakers, policy analysts, and researchers on funding, staffing, and research approaches for init…

Policymakers have a number of governance and policy instruments at their disposal to balance community input around data centers with potential economic growth.

As the nonprofit sector has grown and evolved, it faces new questions about its role, responsibilities, and relationship to government. This event will explore these changing expectations and how tax ...

When families with young children can’t afford basic hygiene products, caregivers are forced to make adverse trade-offs that can affect both their and their …

Proving the effectiveness of paths such as apprenticeships can help students know their options, writes an Urban Institute senior fellow.

This report offers lessons for designing and structuring philanthropic investments towards inclusive economic mobility—distilling lessons from a two-year mod…

As the nonprofit sector has grown and evolved, it faces new questions about its role, responsibilities, and relationship to government. This event will explore these changing expectations and how tax ...

In this report and the program profiles below, we detail each corps’ approach and highlight opportunities to expand and strengthen their programs—and for phi…

As the nation’s energy system evolves—driven by growing electricity demand, aging infrastructure, and the shift to clean energy—households are feeling the im…

Making child care more affordable for parents who are early educators can help stabilize the child care workforce, increase the supply and quality of care, a…

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming embedded in the public systems that shape economic mobility—health, housing, workforce, benefits access, and fina…

Without sufficient public investment, child care businesses in the United States have faced financial strains that contribute to low wages and high turnover …

To help families achieve durable economic security, policymakers need to offer solutions that address income and wealth together.

Four tools offer a more complete picture of income, wealth, and financial security.