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  • Report|May 9, 2025|

    Progress Pulse #6: Will AI Improve the Marketplace of Ideas? Americans Divided.

    By Clay Routledge
  • Report|May 6, 2025|

    Historical Nostalgia in Modern America: Exploring Its Prevalence, Appeal, and Psychological Utility

    By Clay Routledge
  • Report|April 11, 2025|

    Progress Pulse #5: Americans Are Grateful For and Inspired By Progress

    By Clay Routledge
  • Report|March 31, 2025|

    Building on Momentum: Louisiana’s Path to Mobility

    By Justin T. Callais
  • Featured, Report|March 14, 2025|

    The Psychological Building Blocks of Agency

    By Andrew Abeyta
  • Report|February 28, 2025|

    Progress Pulse #4: Americans Who See Progress in the Past Expect It in the Future

    By Clay Routledge
  • Report|January 31, 2025|

    Progress Pulse #3: Most Americans Believe They Are Agents Of Progress

    By Clay Routledge
  • Report|January 30, 2025|

    Net Productive Entrepreneurship: An MSA-Level Index 2002-2019

    By Justin T. Callais, Peter T. Calcagno and Gary A. Wagner
  • Report|January 28, 2025|

    Illinois’ Low Social Mobility: Causes and Cures

    By Joshua Bandoch and Justin T. Callais
  • Report|December 19, 2024|

    Social Mobility in Michigan: Where Do We Go From Here?

    By Justin T. Callais
  • Report|December 17, 2024|

    Digital Flourishing in America

    By Sophie Janicke-Bowles and Clay Routledge
  • Gen Z and the Power of Historical Nostalgia
    Report|December 11, 2024|

    Gen Z and the Power of Historical Nostalgia

    By discover.ai
  • Report|November 22, 2024|

    Progress Pulse #2: Americans Split on AI’s Future Impact

    By Clay Routledge
  • Featured, Report|October 31, 2024|

    Progress Pulse #1: A Nation Divided on Humanity’s Future

    By Clay Routledge
  • Featured, Report|August 28, 2024|

    American Dream 2024 Snapshot: The Health and State of the American Dream

    By Gonzalo Schwarz
  • Featured, Report|August 14, 2024|

    State Occupational Licensing Index 2024

    By Noah Trudeau and Edward Timmons
  • Featured, Report|June 26, 2024|

    State Solutions to Empower Upward Mobility

    By Archbridge Institute
  • Featured, Report|May 31, 2024|

    Exploring Americans’ Visions of the Future

    By discover.ai
  • Report|April 29, 2024|

    Patriotism and Hope for America’s Future

    By Clay Routledge
  • Report|March 18, 2024|

    Reforming Mississippi’s Subsidized Childcare Towards Marriage Neutrality

    By Willis Krumholz
  • Report|February 22, 2024|

    Licensing Reform in Alaska

    By Edward Timmons, Conor Norris and Noah Trudeau
  • Report|January 31, 2024|

    Hope in America: Visions of the Future

    By Clay Routledge and Andrew Abeyta
  • Featured, Report|December 18, 2023|

    Social Mobility in the 50 States

    By Justin T. Callais and Gonzalo Schwarz
  • Report|November 20, 2023|

    Nostalgia in America: The Power of Looking Back to Move Forward

    By Clay Routledge
  • Report|October 24, 2023|

    Intergenerational Mobility, Social Capital, and Economic Freedom

    By Justin T. Callais, Vincent Geloso and Alicia Plemmons
  • Featured, Report|October 17, 2023|

    The Science of Hope

    By Andrew Abeyta
  • Report|September 14, 2023|

    Early Childhood Education Programs: Best Practices for Maximizing Social Mobility

    By Jorge Luis Garcia
  • Report|July 11, 2023|

    Building soft skills for the Future of Work

    By Ben Wilterdink
  • Report|July 2, 2023|

    American Dream Snapshot 2023

    By Gonzalo Schwarz
  • Report|June 26, 2023|

    Millennials Lead American Optimism For the Future

    By Clay Routledge and Will Johnson
  • Report|May 23, 2023|

    Universal Recognition: Labor Market Effects and Best Practices for Policymakers 

    By Edward Timmons and Kihwan Bae
  • Report|March 20, 2023|

    State Occupational Licensing Index 2023

    By Noah Trudeau and Edward Timmons
  • Report|December 19, 2022|

    Americans Yearn for Tradition—Old and New—This Holiday Season

    By Clay Routledge and Will Johnson
  • Report|December 6, 2022|

    Economic Mobility, Business Dynamism, and Barriers to Entrepreneurship

    By Justin T. Callais
  • Report|November 28, 2022|

    The Social Power of Patriotism: Americans Who Are Proud of Their National Identity Are More Likely To Trust Their Fellow Citizens

    By Clay Routledge
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    Report|October 11, 2022|

    Personal Independence Behind Declining Birth Rates

    By Clay Routledge and Will Johnson
  • Report|August 31, 2022|

    The Meaning Mindset: Existential Agency in America

    By Clay Routledge
  • Report|July 1, 2022|

    American Dream 2022 Snapshot: The Health and State of the American Dream

    By Gonzalo Schwarz
  • Report|June 30, 2022|

    Marginal Tax Rates and Economic Opportunity

    By Cristina Enache
  • Report|May 30, 2022|

    Economic Mobility, the Rule of Law, and Property Rights Protection

    By Justin T. Callais
  • Report|March 31, 2022|

    Patriotic Progress: National Pride and Optimism about the Future

    By Clay Routledge
  • Report|February 28, 2022|

    Reforming California’s Subsidized Childcare Toward Marriage Neutrality

    By Willis Krumholz
  • Report|January 25, 2022|

    ¿Subir o caer de la escalera?: Movilidad social en Latinoamérica

    By Gonzalo Schwarz
  • Report|January 25, 2022|

    Climbing the ladder or falling off it: Essays on Economic Mobility in Europe

    By Gonzalo Schwarz
  • Report|November 30, 2021|

    Economic Mobility in America Part 3: Trends in the United States

    By Scott Winship
  • Report|October 28, 2021|

    Existential Agency in America

    By Clay Routledge
  • Report|July 28, 2021|

    American Dream 2021 Snapshot: How Americans view the American Dream and Economic Mobility

    By Gonzalo Schwarz
  • Report|March 30, 2021|

    Not-So Sweet Home Alabama: How Licensing Holds Back The Yellowhammer State

    By Edward Timmons and Conor Norris
  • Report|December 14, 2020|

    Who Is Proud To Be An American?

    By Clay Routledge
  • Report|December 2, 2020|

    Reforming Welfare to Reduce Marriage Penalties and Put Children First

    By Willis Krumholz
  • Report|October 27, 2020|

    American Dream 2020 Snapshot

    By Gonzalo Schwarz
  • Report|September 24, 2020|

    Promoting Skills

    By James Heckman
  • Report|May 28, 2020|

    Why Meaning Matters For Freedom And Flourishing

    By Clay Routledge
  • Report|February 20, 2020|

    Field of Broken Dreams: How Licensing Limits Opportunity in The Hawkeye State

    By Edward Timmons
  • Report|February 6, 2019|

    Deserting Workers? Barriers to Work in New Mexico

    By Edward Timmons
  • Report|December 7, 2018|

    Economic Mobility in America Part 2: The United States in Comparative Perspective

    By Scott Winship
  • Report|October 9, 2018|

    The Importance of Structural Factors in Understanding Economic Mobility

    By Gonzalo Schwarz
  • Report|April 10, 2018|

    Too Much License?

    By Edward Timmons
  • Report|March 29, 2018|

    Skill Formation and the Minimum Wage

    By Ben Wilterdink
  • Report|January 19, 2018|

    Skills for the 21st Century — Building Human Capital for Economic Mobility

    By Ben Wilterdink
  • Report|November 2, 2017|

    Barriers to Mobility

    By Edward Timmons
  • Report|July 12, 2017|

    Perceptions of Rising Opportunity Across Rich Nations and Over Time

    By Scott Winship
  • Report|March 20, 2017|

    Economic Mobility in America Part 1: Contemporary Levels of Mobility

    By Scott Winship
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