• A scarcity of cross-class friendships hinders opportunities in distressed communities

    Analysis

    March 21, 2024

  • Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected

    Analysis

    January 23, 2024

  • How Prime-Age Employment and Poverty Identify Different Maps of Economic Distress and What it Means for Federal Policy

    Analysis

    November 30, 2023

  • Are Opportunity Zones Working? What the Literature Tells Us

    Analysis, Policy

    October 12, 2023

  • EIG Applauds Reintroduction of Bipartisan Legislation to Strengthen Opportunity Zones

    Press Releases, Policy

    September 28, 2023

  • The Chipmaker’s Visa: A Key Ingredient for CHIPS Act Success

    Analysis, Policy

    September 25, 2023

  • Will the New Wave of Place-Based Policy Leave Persistently Poor Areas Behind?

    In the News, Testimony & Commentary

    July 12, 2023

  • New EIG Report Introduces Empirical Framework and Policy Recommendations to Strengthen Federal Intervention in Persistent Poverty Communities

    Press Releases, Policy

    June 27, 2023

  • Advancing Economic Development in Persistent-Poverty Communities

    Reports

    June 27, 2023

  • EIG Applauds Bipartisan US Conference of Mayors Resolution Calling on Congress to Enact Heartland Visa Program

    Press Releases

    June 5, 2023