Our Work

Ensuring an Equitable Recovery: Addressing Covid-19’s Impact on Education

Report | October 3, 2023

Ensuring an Equitable Recovery presents 2021 youth disconnection rates for the United States as a whole as well as by gender, race and ethnicity, region, state, metro area, and congressional district.

Building Bright Futures for Youth in New Orleans

Report | 2022/11/17

Building Bright Futures for Youth in New Orleans: Spotlight on Young Women provides an in-depth look at youth disconnection in Greater New Orleans (the New Orleans metropolitan area). The report also has a special focus on young women.

Measuring America: 10 Years and Counting

Report | December 14, 2018

“Measuring America: 10 Years and Counting” explores trends in American Human Development Index scores over the past decade by race and ethnicity, gender, and U.S. state, revealing the uneven nature of America’s rebound from the 2007 financial crisis.

Two Futures: The Economic Case for Keeping Youth on Track

Report | October 9, 2018

Building on Measure of America’s Disconnected Youth Series, Two Futures: The Economic Case for Keeping Youth on Track finds that by the time they reach their thirties, those who had been working or in school as teens and young adults earn $31,000 more per year.

Highway to Health

Report | October 4, 2017

Highway to Health: Life Expectancy in Los Angeles County reveals up-to-date life expectancy calculations for cities and unincorporated areas within Los Angeles County, the first release of such data in more than a decade.

HALVE THE GAP BY 2030: Youth Disconnection in America’s Cities

Report | October 24, 2013

In this report we imagine, in very specific terms, a different, better tomorrow. We lay out an ambitious but attainable goal: to halve the gaps between the most- and least-connected neighborhoods and between racial groups in half by 2030.

Women’s Well-Being: Ranking America’s Top 25 Metro Areas

Report | April 25, 2012

This analysis shows that the well-being of women living in metropolitan America varies tremendously by place as well as by race, ethnicity, age, and martial status.