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Improving Neighborhoods to Improve Lives: Re-Imagining the Power of Place

October 9, 2024

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Although the U.S. poverty rate was cut in half between 1959 and 2022, it remains stubbornly high at more than 12%, leaving over 40 million Americans living below the poverty line. Research has shown those who live in the most impoverished neighborhoods in the U.S. are sicker and more stressed than those who live in well-off ones. They also see more violence, attend worse schools, and die at much younger ages. However, efforts to revitalize America’s poverty-stricken neighborhoods are many, including government-funded programs and private-public partnerships.

Join our panel of experts in Washington, D.C. as they examine what’s working to improve America’s most at-risk neighborhoods by curbing violence, creating opportunity, and improving housing and education.

Wednesday, October 9, 12 - 1:30pm EDT

Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room SD-G11

50 Constitution Ave., NE, Washington, D.C.

REGISTER HERE

Stefanie DeLuca
James Coleman Professor of Sociology and Social Policy and Director of the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University

Kirabo Jackson
The Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy, Professor of Economics, and IPR Fellow at Northwestern University

Andrew Papachristos
The John G. Searle Professor of Sociology and IPR Director and Fellow at Northwestern University, Faculty Director of the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research and Science (CORNERS)

Sean Reardon
Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education and of Sociology (by courtesy) at Stanford University, Faculty Director of the Educational Opportunity Project