Introducing the Urban Institute’s Office of Race and Equity Research, an interdisciplinary hub that aims to advance standards of excellence around equitable research methods both at Urban and in the social science field.

The new DC Education Research Collaborative, led by the Urban Institute, brings together world-class researchers to tackle the issues most relevant to students, families and education stakeholders like principals, teachers, and school administrators.

Urban will be closed January 17 to 21 to provide the entire Urban team time to rest, serve, and reflect following the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Urban Institute’s first cohort of Equity Scholars is a diverse group of emerging and established researchers interested in diverse social policy issues, trained in different disciplines, but united in a commitment to deepening society’s understanding of racism and discrimination and informing the pursuit of equity and justice.

To provide fairness, economic mobility, and security to our essential workers, we need to focus, with an explicit equity lens, on improving the quality of jobs the economy produces for low- and middle-wage workers.

Our Advancing Equity for AAPI Communities report provides strategies philanthropic and policy leaders can use to help transform the national environment and combat anti-AAPI racism.