Leading on Opportunity Case Study
How to Build a Mobility Movement: Leading on Opportunity’s Approach to Economic Mobility in Charlotte
Opportunity Compass
An index to measure Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s collective progress towards improving economic mobility. Results are quantified with data from 82 indicators (2015-2022).
Opportunity Insights
Charlotte Opportunity Initiative Collaboration with community leaders to identify and support data-driven systems change.
Opportunity Insights Changing Opportunity Study
Using data on 57 million children, Opportunity Insights shows that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades.
Opportunity Task Force Report
A report co-created by community members in response to Charlotte’s low economic mobility ranking in 2015
United Neighborhoods
Works alongside a community’s leader, providing funding to nonprofits whose services address needs identified by residents.
How’s Charlotte faring now on economic mobility? A revised tool may offer answers
With Charlotte seeing improvement in its economic mobility opportunities, an updated tool is being rolled out to showcase what the city has done and what areas still need improvement
Charlotte no longer “50th out of 50” for economic mobility, new Chetty study shows
Why it matters: Children born in Charlotte have increasing opportunities and a greater chance to rise out of poverty today than they did in previous generations, the research suggests.
How Public Shaming Helped Create a Promising US Housing Program
The world has burned through oil inventories at a record speed as the Iran war throttles flows from the Persian Gulf, eating into the very buffer that protects against supply shocks.
Who Can Achieve the American Dream? Race Matters Less Than It Used To
Between two generations, Americans’ ability to break into the middle class has changed. Race has come to play a smaller role in upward mobility, while economic class plays a larger role.