Health Equity Works and the Clark-Fox Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis are among numerous sponsors of a live online candidate forum Wednesday, Feb. 13 from 6 to 8 p.m. held in advance of the March primary to elect a president of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen. There are three Democratic challengers vying […]
Category: Economic Opportunity
Presenting a new tool to examine poverty and upward mobility in America
We know that where you live in St. Louis has a considerable influence on health. Children born into low-income areas with fewer resources are expected to have poorer health and live shorter lives than more affluent children in a zip code a few miles away. Now, thanks to a new, sophisticated data tool created by […]
Embracing consciously inclusive communities makes economic sense: A look at recent publications
This week, For the Sake of All Director Dr. Jason Purnell argued in an editorial in the St. Louis American that we continue to live in a deeply segregated America that has not met the great expectations envisioned in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech delivered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Dr. Purnell […]
Investing in our children’s futures: hope grows for Child Development Accounts
Research from the Center for Social Development at Washington University suggests nine out of ten parents aspire for their children to go to college regardless of their income, their ethnicity, or where they live. Ask Charlene Jackson of St. Louis. She firmly believes college will one day happen for her two young grandchildren, despite her […]
Two new and notable books on wealth inequality
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 1st Edition by Matthew Desmond available at Amazon.com WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION From Amazon.com: In Evicted, Harvard sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and […]
SLPD article on STL city-county divide, by Tony Messenger
Tony Messenger’s April 13, 2017 article, Messenger: Redraw the boundaries so that St. Louis can go all in, addresses the divide between the city and county in St. Louis. Messenger references research outlined in the 2014 For the Sake of All report underscoring the gaps in health outcomes and life expectancy between rich and poor and African American and white […]
Blog Post by Dedrick Asante-Muhammad & Jason Purnell
A recent blog post by Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Director of CFED’s Racial Wealth Divide Initiative and Host of the Race and Wealth podcast, and Jason Purnell, Assistant Professor at Washington University’s Brown School, was published in November in The St. Louis American and The Huffington Post. The post discusses the persistent and pervasive problem of […]
“Financial Health is Public Health”: New book features essay by Jason Purnell
The essay can be found in What It’s Worth: Strengthening the Financial Future of Families, Communities and the Nation, a new book on the financial health of our nation published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Corporation for Enterprise Development. “In these and many other ways, the inextricable, often stress-laden link between financial […]