This week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced substantial new investments to advance economic mobility and opportunity in the United States. The Urban Institute is proud to be among the foundation’s anchor partners, building and sharing knowledge changemakers need to accelerate solutions that increase upward mobility and promote equity.
Join the Urban Institute, in-person or virtually, for a discussion about why poverty persists in America and how everyone can play a role in fighting it. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Matt Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, will join Mary Cunningham, Urban’s vice president for metropolitan housing and communities policy, and Myra Jones-Taylor, Urban’s chief policy impact officer, in conversation about how individuals, policymakers, and communities can combat poverty.
