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The Urban Institute was founded 50 years ago by President Lyndon B. Johnson to provide “power through knowledge” to help solve the problems that weighed heavily on the nation’s hearts and minds. Urban rose to LBJ’s challenge with evidence and analysis to strengthen new ideas for lifting families out of poverty, promoting justice, and ...
Darrick Hamilton ’s proposal would provide all newborns with a publicly funded endowment ranging from $500 to $60,000, with a baby born into a wealth-poor household receiving a substantially higher endowment than one born into a wealthy family. Under Senator Cory Booker’s proposal, newborns would receive $1,000, with up to $2,000 added ...
The Urban Institute, in partnership with today’s leading thinkers and doers, is exploring what knowledge is needed to fast-track promising solutions to achieve equity, upward mobility, and racial justice. We aim to contribute to a future in which everyone has the chance to thrive as technological innovations, demographic shifts, and economic and environmental forces reshape how we live and ...
Chairs: David Autor, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Organized by Urban Institute scholar and expert: Khuloud Odeh , Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Jenny R. Yang ...
THE URBAN INSTITUTE’S NEXT50. poverty, retirement, criminal justice, and much more. Urban will continue . to invest in state-of-the-art modeling, evaluation, and other research to help these influencers and changemakers, and the larger public, craft solutions to emerging challenges. DEEPEN COLLABORATION . WITH STATES AND LOCALITIES
pre-fabricated and modular units like the ones San Francisco’s Panoramic Interests produces for infill development on underused urban land; and design-build project delivery combined with new building technology to vertically integrate services, increase efficiency, and reduce construction costs, as demonstrated by companies like Blokable ...
Knowledge Labs. These concurrent sessions will bring together leaders from the nonprofit, business, and philanthropic sectors to explore the knowledge building necessary for changemakers to advance promising solutions to expanding mobility and equity in emerging areas of policy and practice.
Building Knowledge Changemakers Need. 4547 Acknowledgments To produce this Catalyst brief, the Urban Institute engaged a diversity of changemakers in the wealth- building, public education, employment, and justice policy fields, including experts, advocates, practiti.
We are grateful to Citi Foundation for its generous support of Urban Next50. ABOUT THE URBAN INSTITUTE . The nonprofit Urban Institute is a leading research organization dedicated to developing evidence -based insights that improve people’s lives and strengthen communities. For 50 years, Urban has been the trusted source for rigorous
We are grateful to Citi Foundation for its generous support of Urban Next50. ABOUT THE URBAN INSTITUTE The nonprofit Urban Institute is a leading research organization dedicated to developing evidence-based insights that improve people’s lives and strengthen communities. For 50 years, Urban has been the trusted source for rigorous