Building Ladders for Social Mobility
October 31, 2016
10/31/16 – All children should have a good—and equitable—chance on the economic ladder, social thinker Isabel Sawhill and colleagues have written in Issues, describing a variety of promising interventions to give disadvantaged kids a leg up at various stages of life, from before birth through entry into adulthood. In a new report, she and another colleague amplify these ideas in “an agenda for reducing poverty and improving opportunity,” aimed at providing lower-income children with a fair chance to succeed in the classroom, the workplace, and the home.