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Our country’s demographic and fiscal realities are changing rapidly; and yet our policies and programs still largely reflect static assumptions about people and resources. In order to ensure the prosperity and well-being of future generations, we need to challenge these assumptions and explore new ways to creatively solve problems.
Biography
Molly Scott is a principal research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute. For 16 years, Scott has studied Americans' experience of poverty and the effectiveness of programs and policies on the ground. In recent years, her work has focused on identifying the underlying structural issues that impede young people from completing their education, low-income adults from succeeding in the labor market, private-sector firms from adopting "good jobs strategies," and nonprofits and government agencies from designing and implementing approaches that achieve results. Scott has also collaborated with organizations to use people-centered design to develop new approaches to structural problems, put systems in place to pilot and test these approaches, and disseminate lessons learned to practitioners and policymakers.
Research Reports
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August 1, 2020
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Research Report Job Market and Labor ForceWilliam J. Congdon, Molly M. Scott, Batia Katz, Pamela J. Loprest, Demetra Smith Nightingale, Jessica ShakesprereJuly 23, 2020
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Research Report FamiliesJune 18, 2020
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May 27, 2020
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Research Report FamiliesSeptember 11, 2019
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June 13, 2019
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Research Report Nonprofits and PhilanthropyOctober 19, 2018
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October 18, 2018
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Research Report Job Market and Labor ForceMolly M. Scott, Lauren Eyster, Yipeng Su, David C. Blount, Alex Trutko, Adrienne Smith, Karen GardinerOctober 1, 2018