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Blueprint for Opportunity
Making our economy thrive by identifying ideas for promoting innovation, entrepreneurship, and faster, more inclusive growth.
50%
Only half of U.S. children grow up to earn more than their parents
48%
48% of Millennials have saved nothing for a home down payment
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The Evolving Geography of Opportunity: Leading Cities of the Past, Present, and Future
This report explores a diverse array of thriving, high-opportunity metropolitan areas and the lessons they offer on how to expand opportunity and economic mobility in the United States. -
The New Geography of Opportunity: Case Studies from a Changing Economic Landscape
A diverse range of cities and metropolitan areas have emerged as high-opportunity regional economies in 21st century America. This report examines those cities and towns and outlines their strengths. -
Cities and Opportunity in 21st Century America
How America can create more cities of opportunity -
The Innovation Impact of U.S. Universities
Connecting innovation activities to economic growth and prosperity -
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America's Gathering Debt Storm: Making It Personal
The U.S. government's debt is on track to reach 210 percent of GDP by 2048
Smarter fiscal, regulatory, workforce, innovation, and place-based policies will promote growth and make democratic capitalism better for all Americans.
However, misguided policies discourage job creation, entrepreneurship, and economic opportunity for too many Americans, impeding the upward mobility that has always been central to America's promise.
Setting America's Economy Free
Our work draws from economic policy-making experience at the highest levels, private sector expertise, and the cutting edge of research in economics to identify ideas for promoting innovation, entrepreneurship, and faster, more inclusive growth.
Our Agenda for Promoting Economic Opportunity in America
Improved economic development policies to reverse growing high vs. low opportunity geographic patterns and help struggling cities and towns reinvent themselves as engines of upward mobility.
Workforce initiatives to create better paths to fulfilling, remunerative 21st century work.
Strategies to promote wealth-building for American families and to address the barriers to upward mobility posed by housing affordability challenges.
Sustainable fiscal reform to create more growth-friendly tax policies and to stabilize the spiraling national debt.
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