Issues

Focus Areas

Spotlight explores the many forces that shape poverty and opportunity, from economic policy and education to health, race, gender and geography.

These interconnected issues reveal how diverse identities and systems influence the path to economic mobility

Addiction recovery

Aging

Asset Building

Baby Bonds

COVID

Child Tax Credit

Child and Youth Well-Being

Childcare

Cities

Diaper access

Digital Divide

Disability

Discrimination

EITC

Economic Opportunity

Education

Entrepreneurs

Environment

Equity

Extreme weather

Families

Food

Gender

Guaranteed Income

Health

Health disparities

Higher Education

Homelessness

Housing

Hunger

Immigration

Job Quality

Jobs

Journalism

Justice System

Juvenile Justice

K-12

LGBT

Medicaid

Medical debt

Mental health

Nutrition

Paid leave

Pathways to Employment

Period poverty

Place-Based

Politics

Poverty Measurement

Prison Reform

Public Benefits

Racial Equity

Rural Areas

Rural policy

SNAP

Senior Citizens

Social Security

Tax and Budget

Transportation

WIC

Women

child welfare

marriage penalty

minimum wage

nonprofit management

work requirements