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The State of Opportunity in America’s Fragile Communities
Experts from Gallup and the Center for Advancing Opportunity discussed “The State of Opportunity in America’s Fragile Communities” during this webinar on Thursday, August 6th at 1PM EST.
Opportunity Dashboard
Residents of fragile communities face specific barriers to opportunity. Our Gallup research looked at local economic conditions, access to educational opportunities, views of the criminal justice system, and entrepreneurial mindset.
The Opportunity Dashboard offers a visual depiction of this research, allowing us to understand and compare views on each topic across groups and regions.
The State of Opportunity In America
Across the country, fragile communities face barriers to opportunity, including high levels of poverty, low-performing schools, inequities in law enforcement and limited economic opportunities. These communities are in urban, rural and increasingly suburban areas, and they include people of all races and ethnicities. For years, researchers and policy-makers have debated the entrenched poverty and lack of social mobility that plague such communities.
Our Mission
The Center for Advancing Opportunity’s mission is to move people living in fragile communities from promise to prosperity.
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Powell “was always inches away from disaster, putting car repairs and vet bills on a credit card, or charging necessities and gasoline” in order to pay rent or make debt payments." https://t.co/JQQxNMeYpZ via @NewYorker
When asked what barriers to opportunity most affect their community, residents of #fragilecommunities most often selected “a lack of enough jobs that offer career advancement." #economicmobility #socialmobility #JobActionDay
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“There’s a misconception among the housed — and unhoused —community that if you don’t have a permanent residence then you can’t vote and that you don’t matter and your voices don’t matter.”
#votingrights #ElectionDay https://t.co/qQQuNqLJCL
Young Black girls are facing some of the harshest disciplinary measures of any demographic in our nations schools. #racialequity #edequity #RacialJustice
https://t.co/FeQaLJS4VS
Abdul Wright, 2016 Minnesota Teacher of the Year, discusses what it means to teach during #COVID19 https://t.co/tYq3sUyQSz
On October 30, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph Abernathy were arrested and forced to begin serving sentences in Birmingham jail because they led peaceful protests against unconstitutional bans on race mixing in Birmingham in 1963. https://t.co/PealpFeh8H
The payments have settled allegations of excessive force, wrongful detention and other abuses that sometimes stretch back decades and in extreme cases resulted in death or permanent injury. #PoliceReform #CriminalJusticeReform https://t.co/hv8GpWhZ02