A Better Chicago’s 2025 State of Our Youth report has identified mental health struggles, community violence, and chronic ...

Granny flats and basement dwellings could help with housing affordability, but Chicago’s outdated zoning rules make them ...

raises household Income and reduces poverty by 1%-2% annually. The data reflect similar outcomes in the city of Chicago, with The Chicago Community Trust reporting that entrepreneurship ...

The City Club of Chicago and the University of Chicago Crown Family School ... and families through the lens of policy causes and solutions to material hardship and poverty. She conducts two primary ...

The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty. We hypothesize that poverty directly impedes cognitive function and present two studies that test this hypothesis.

Pedro Martinez, the superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, is on track to become Massachusetts's next education ...

We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry, household moves to healthier neighborhoods, and ...