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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.

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Making an impact in 2023
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Research shows no single race-neutral admissions policy would produce current levels of racial and ethnic diversity on its own.
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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.

House landscape
Criticism over the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s recent pricing changes conflates two separate, largely unrelated moves on pricing.
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Evidence shows that adding work requirements to Medicaid and expanding requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are unlikely to increase employment and would cause many eligible people to lose vital health care and food assistance.
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The Gape between SNAP Beneifts and Meal Costs
Amid inflation, SNAP benefits did not cover the cost of a meal in 99 percent of counties in 2022. Adjustments to SNAP narrowed—but didn’t close—that gap.