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May 8, 2024
Anna Crockett, Emily Ryder Perlmeter, Xiaohan Zhang
Proponents of short-term credentials hope these programs that are shorter (and often cheaper) than traditional college can boost economic mobility for students who would otherwise forgo a degree.
April 19, 2024
Marycruz De Leon, Kassandra Huhn, Prithvi Kalkunte and Xiaohan Zhang
In the first of a three-part series on digital inclusion, we discuss the details of recent federal broadband funding and its connection to the level of broadband availability.
March 6, 2024
Anna Crockett, Emily Ryder Perlmeter, Xiaohan Zhang
Proponents of short-term credentials hope these programs that are shorter (and often cheaper) than traditional college can boost economic mobility for students who would otherwise forgo a degree.
February 12, 2024
Claire Jeffress, Eileen Morrow and Andrew Raychawdhuri
Michael Weber, an associate professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Jeff Fuhrer, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Eastern Bank Foundation, provided insight into the importance of thinking about diverse communities in policymaking at the inaugural Economic Inclusion Seminar Series Fireside Chat.
December 1, 2023
Emily Ryder Perlmeter
Women in Texas who own small businesses struggle more than men to access loans, post-COVID data show, and the situation is worse for women of color.
August 2, 2023
Aparna Jayashankar and Xiaohan Zhang
The COVID-19 pandemic severely depressed U.S. labor force participation. Although the pandemic has eased, people ages 20–24 and those over 55 have been less likely to return to the workforce.
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