A Call for a Different Type of Policing

10.14.20

12.30.20
Looking Back on 2020: 13 Highlights from the Center for Advancing Opportunity’s “State of Opportunity in America” Report

As 2020 comes to a close, join us in looking back at some of the key findings from our “2020 State of Opportunity in America” Report. Conducted just before the pandemic reached America, the survey revealed that residents of fragile communities, compared to the rest of America, are lacking access to health care, educational opportunities, economic mobility, and criminal justice. All these issues are intricately interwoven, and lack of access to them create barriers that keep people from reaching their full potential and living fulfilling lives.
12.17.20
3 Surprising Challenges Fragile Community Residents Experience

We know that residents of fragile communities experience immense barriers to opportunities, such as unemployment, lack of quality education options, criminal injustice, and a time tax (e.g. taking three buses just to get to work.) But here are three obstacles to economic mobility that fragile community residents face that you might be surprised to learn.