The data from the Historical Report of Opportunity confirms the importance of education as a critical pathway to upward mobility and our country's economic health.
Opportunity Nation’s Senior Advisor Sarah Beaulieu and Paul Kendrick, Director of Coalition and Grassroots Engagement, recently hosted a lunch-and-learn with the Boston fellows of Education Pioneers.
Opportunity Leader Savion Castro is a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he and a group of friends created the group I M Power to provide civic education for students.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Prize embodies what all of us at Opportunity Nation work toward every day – inspiring communities to think about creating opportunity.
The Opportunity Index shows how the county and state where you live can cause bottlenecks because of major economic, educational and civic conditions that affect access to the American Dream.
Cross-sector initiatives like the Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund are critically important to expanding opportunity and jumpstarting the American Dream for the next generation
In Rhode Island, elected officials and community leaders use both the national Kids Count Data Book, so they can see how RI compares to the other states and the nation as a whole, and the annual Rhode Island Kids Count Factbook, to see how Rhode Island is doing state-wide and throughout its 39 cities and towns.
This week, the Annie E. Casey Foundation released its 25th annual report on child well-being: the 2014 KIDS COUNT Data Book, painting a mixed picture of improvements and setbacks for our nation’s youngest.