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The president's budget misses an opportunity to address the structural causes of our debt and relies instead on overly optimistic economic assumptions.
What will America look like at mid-century? US 2050 will examine and analyze the multiple demographic, socioeconomic, and fiscal trends that will shape the nation in the decades ahead.
With a changing demography as the backdrop, the US 2050 project examines the economic forces and trends that will determine American living standards three decades from now.
Unique Research Project from Peterson Foundation and Ford Foundation Convenes Authors of 31 New Papers Exploring America’s Most Significant Long-Term Challenges
Leading experts, scholars will discuss 31 new research papers on trends that will shape America’s future economy and society.
This study examines how neighborhood disadvantage is associated with children’s trajectories of growth in math and reading skills in early elementary school. It seeks to understand better how the communities in which children attend school affect their academic success in early grades, and how these associations vary by students’ characteristics.
This paper examines how the prevalence of childhood health conditions has changed over the past two decades. It also assesses the implications of these health conditions for the transition to adulthood, particularly with regard to educational attainment and sustained financial dependence from parents.
This study uses two state case studies to assess trends in application for financial aid in order to consider the implications for a diversifying college population and whether alternative approaches to state-funded financial aid are warranted.
This project explores two questions: how labor force participation has varied across different geographic contexts in recent decades; and how well-matched the safety net is to need across the urban, suburban and rural landscape. The analyses investigate labor force participation by gender, education and geography; changes in work and poverty by place over time; and gaps and mismatches in safety net provision.
This project constructs a dataset of job vacancies from 1975–2000 with details on industry, region, occupation, wage and unionization status to improve understanding of evolving trends in labor demand.