Recognizing the need to address the increasing vulnerability of families and individuals in their communities, several local governments and nonprofit organizations across the country are implementing innovative financial security and asset-building strategies that seek to expand the financial...

The findings of the 2016 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard presented here confirm the gravity of the challenges of growing financial insecurity and inequality. To build the opportunity economy we want and need, the status quo is no longer acceptable. Instead, we need to embrace policy...

The federal Head Start program provides quality early childhood education and other supports to children in low-income families living at or below the federal poverty line. Head Start prepares young children for school by enhancing their social and cognitive development, and delivers educational,...