Deputy Policy Director Laura Moore says to improve upward mobility broadly in America we must have a concerted focus around improving black opportunity generally and for black men specifically. We can’t do this alone.

New paper released as part of a collaboration with the US Census Bureau and researchers from the Harvard Privacy Tool Project adapts tools from the formal privacy literature (part of Computer Science and cryptography) to address privacy concerns in practical settings.

Policy Associate Sebi Devlin-Foltz explores how the new $25 million for the Housing Choice Voucher mobility demonstration program will help low-income families that receive rental subsidies from the government move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods.

Laura Moore joined our team last summer after working as a senior education advisor at the City of Nashville. Today, Moore's policy portfolio at Opportunity Insights includes work on education access for Collegiate Leaders in Increasing MoBility (CLIMB), our partnership between researchers and colleges to improve upward mobility and increase higher education access for low-income students.

Nathaniel Hendren has been named one of “Eight Best Young Economists of the Decade” by The Economist.  He joins a short list of 32 scholars -- including Raj Chetty in 2008 -- in receiving the honor, which is only awarded once a decade since 1988.