Low-income zip codes have 25 percent fewer chain supermarkets and 1.3 times as many convenience stores compared to middle-income zip codes. Clearly, when it comes to access to healthy food and opportunity in America, geography matters.
The collaboration between Monroe Community College and Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection is moving the needle on both high school and college success.
Per Scholas is honored and excited to join the Opportunity Nation family. We’ve been impressed by and now rely on the Opportunity Index, a unique measure of a community’s economic, educational and civic health, as we conduct feasibility studies in new potential markets.
In the past twenty years, the cost of attending college has skyrocketed. Despite the efforts of some elite colleges to dedicate considerable resources to enrolling low-income and diverse students, access to many of the best schools is still widely inaccessible to disadvantaged students who are academically qualified to attend.
In discussions about how to help more U.S. students find meaningful career and educational pathways after high school, a key ingredient is often overlooked: the role of professional school guidance counselors.
Opportunity Nation is pleased that community colleges and other higher education institutions around the country will receive $474.5 million to expand job skills training programs that are in high demand and to strengthen partnerships with local employers.
These centers are not at the center of our national conversation about health care, but a national study shows they can be effective, especially when paired with other services that expand economic and community health and well-being.
Wages are central to social mobility and economic opportunity. Household income pays for education, health care, housing and all the other building blocks of our lives.
