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WCPC Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy, April 1st
WCPC Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy
“A Mobility Framework for Economic Policy Agendas”
ELISABETH JACOBS
Center for Equitable Growth
Monday, April 1st
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
*Q&A until 2:00 pm
School of Social Work, Room 305A
| Abstract: Intergenerational mobility is the technical concept at the heart of the American Dream. An individual’s place on the economic distribution is supposed to reflect individual effort and talent, not parental resources and privilege. Yet this perspective ignores the mounting evidence of the myriad ways that poverty and economic inequality foreclose equality of opportunity for far too many Americans now and in the future. This talk will explore how economic inequality could be impeding the development of human potential and the effective deployment of that human potential, and therefore depressing upward mobility, and offer up a framework for economic policymakers interested in advancing an evidence-backed agenda for accelerating both economic growth and economic mobility in America. |