Five factors are associated with strong, upward mobility: less segregation by income and race, lower income inequality, better schools, lower rates of violent crime, and larger shares of two-parent households.
The spring 2016 North Texas Funders Forum, The Promise of Two-Generation Strategies, made a case for two-generation approaches. These include an actionable framework for implementing two-generation programs, and a discussion of the impacts, early evidence, and lessons learned from existing two-generation programs.
