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Boosting Economic Mobility: The Great Challenge of Our Time

Boosting Economic Mobility: The Great Challenge of Our Time

The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened, and highlighted, the urgent need for solutions. Cities were already on the case.
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New Orleans’ Playbook for Closing the Skills Gap

New Orleans’ Playbook for Closing the Skills Gap

The city is betting internships and clearly defined career pathways will lead to increased economic mobility for young New Orleanians
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City/County Collaboration Can Help Make Progress on Economic Mobility Strategies

City/County Collaboration Can Help Make Progress on Economic Mobility Strategies

Four takeaways from WWC and NACo’s session on city and county collaboration
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The Economic Mobility Catalog — Local strategies to accelerate upward mobility for youth, families…

The Economic Mobility Catalog — Local strategies to accelerate upward mobility for youth, families…

By Ross Tilchin
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Cities and Economic Mobility: What It Takes to Jumpstart Progress

Cities and Economic Mobility: What It Takes to Jumpstart Progress

How nine cities designed projects to boost economic mobility and evaluate their effectiveness
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Immigrant and Minority-owned Small Businesses & Economic Recovery

Immigrant and Minority-owned Small Businesses & Economic Recovery

And the challenges facing small businesses in accessing COVID-19 relief and recovery funding
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Advancing Economic Mobility in Cities

Advancing Economic Mobility in Cities

Three Fundamental Truths for Communities Working to Create Opportunity
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Recharging Racine

Recharging Racine

Can the city’s investment in a high school equivalency program improve residents’ economic mobility?
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