Podcasts about opportunity atlas

Angel Scale Biotech: Learn More   During COVID, Readlee, Drew Madson's startup, offered teachers a highly effective way to measure and remedy reading deficits among online learners. This led to the company being acquired by Paper, the tutoring platform. An inspiring interview.   Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish and Richardson.   Highlights: Sal Daher Introduces Drew Madson What Readlee is Solving Behind the Scenes of Readlee How Readlee Came to Be "... COVID just highlighted this need that already existed..." "...I highly recommend checking out The Opportunity Atlas. If listeners haven't looked at this, it's an amazing analysis of how certain interventions can actually improve people's ability to make more money over the course of their lives and have more opportunity and flourishing..." "... What are large language models going to do to this space?..." How Drew Developed an Interest in Education Parting Thoughts   Topics: discovering entrepreneurship, founding story, product

TFG is back! And even Shadier than ever?!The crew discusses the impacts of social mobility referencing the research study from The Opportunity Atlas; due to economic connectedness.  Economic Connectedness (EC) is based on the extent of friendship across class lines.  Social capital is just as important as capital, the crew takes a deep dive into life trajectories and what happens when one interacts outside of their communities to develop a better sense of self.Turns out, keeping poor company can make you or keep you poor in the long run. Article/Study Resources:PlanetMoney: "Friend Request"The Opportunity Atlas  More details will be available in the show notes, www.theneighborhoodfinanceguy.com About Us:The Financial Griot is a play on two words (Finance + Griot) that hold significance in closing the wealth gap while embracing our differences. We tell the stories that others don't. Stories about growth, opportunity and embracing changes. Beyond that we talk about Finances. Specifically, how to become Financially literate, incorporating actionable steps and ultimately building generational wealth.Can you imagine being a Millionaire in 20 years or less? Yeah it's possible. 80% of millionaires are first generation. That means they didn't come from wealth. We teach you how. Join a community of subscribers that welcome a fresh take on money.So there you have it, The Financial Griot or TFG for short. The hosts were able to amass over $2 Million in wealth in about 8 years and are on track to retire early. If you want the secrets; we will gladly share them since opportunity is abundant and Win-Win. Find  the TFG Crew Hosts on Instagram Alainta Alcin - Blogger, Travel and Money Enthusiast @alainta_alcinLovely Merdelus - Entrepreneur and Small Business Growth Specialist @lovelymerdelusLawrence Delva-Gonzalez - Federal Auditor, Blogger and Tax Specialist @theneighborhoodfinanceguy If you like our podcasts and want to share your financial story as a guest. Hit us up at https://calendly.com/thefinancialgriot/ 

This episode features a conversation with Natalie Gochnour, associate dean in the David Eccles School of Business and director of the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah, and podcast host Pete Codella, Go Utah's communications director. The episode springboards off the Opportunity Atlas, which shows the American and Utah neighborhoods that offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty. Gochnour discusses her thoughts on upward mobility in Utah and the two significant findings that education and neighborhoods matter. She also notes that Utah has America's largest middle class and ranks high for upward mobility and how that plays out in urban communities versus rural ones. Codella asks Gochnour about the connection between where individuals worship and upward mobility, why Utah has a large middle class, and the cyclical nature of Utah's economy. Gochnour also talks about a new economic impact study for corporate retention and recruitment that the Gardner Policy Institute prepares for Go Utah's Board and executive director, providing detailed economic impact considerations for proposed new EDTIF tax credits. The EDTIF program is Utah Legislature's post-performance corporate incentive to attract new high-paying jobs and keep Utah companies in the state. Listen to the episode for these conversations and more.

Summary: How do we achieve a more equitable energy economy? If you ask Denise Abdul-Rahman with the NAACP, she'll kindly tell you that we need a system that increases employment opportunities and decreases pollution externalities. We need a system that creates investment opportunities for those in need instead of long-term dependencies. We need a system that prioritizes raising people out of poverty above raising profits for the few. She'll say it starts with dialogue – listening to the communities in need and valuing community knowledge. And then she'll ask you to re-imagine how a new clean energy economy can work for all. View Full Episode Resources at: RiseUpMidwest.org/Energy-Equity About This Episode: Have you heard of the Opportunity Atlas? We'll forgive you if you haven't, though you probably should check it out. It's a tool built from following 20 million U.S. children, those born between 1978 and 1983, into their mid-thirties to identify how their childhood zip code impacted their success as adults. It is likely the most ambitious and definitive study on the concept of “The American Dream.” The results are both sobering and promising: "In nearly every place in the country, children whose parents were low-income tended to have poorer-than-average outcomes as adults. But it's also important to note that the factors that inhibit mobility are within society's control to influence – schools, violence, incarceration, housing, job access, and quality health care are some of the reasons that zip codes and census tracts matter for life outcomes. And these factors can be improved with the appropriate investment and good policy." With 7.8 million U.S. families falling into poverty since June alone, these conclusions hold a dire warning for the future of the U.S. economy. If we want our children and grandchildren to live in a country defined by widespread prosperity, promise, and opportunity, then we need to prioritize our investments to support communities in need. The research also makes clear that creating this future is up to us, as each of the barriers for mobility can be addressed with good public policy. When it comes to energy policy, a focus on energy equity could underwrite a nationwide jobs and economic development resurgence. This “Just Energy Transition” is defined by the widespread deployment of energy efficiency and distributed energy resources with a priority focus on career training and re-training for underemployed individuals. This re-imagining of our energy economy will require dialogue, community conversations, stakeholder engagement, and informed policy. Today's guest, Denise Abdul-Rahman, helps us navigate some of these conversations. Her work as a regional field organizer with the NAACP has her focused on the just energy transition, tackling issues of energy equity in Midwest communities. Her diverse background and experience give her an informed understanding that includes human health and wellness, workforce training, social and climate policy, and advocacy. And, the budding NAACP ‘Power Up' program is starting to show some results and help chart a path for clean energy jobs for all.

In today's episode, we look at how zoning regulations and mortgage lending practices have priced out an entire generation of Americans from owning homes. This episode discusses the Opportunity Atlas to provide local context of what has happened in local housing markets. Check out the resource by going to OpportunityAtlas.org --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/planning/support

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In this episode, Mark Blyth talks with Watson economist John Friedman [https://watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/JFriedman] about his work charting social mobility in America. He and his colleagues have created the “Opportunity Atlas,” [https://opportunityinsights.org/] an interactive tool that uses U.S. Census Bureau data to map social mobility in great detail. It measures the likelihood of moving up in society based on where people live -- down to the block they grew up on [Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/upshot/maps-neighborhoods-shape-child-poverty.html]. The findings are highly detailed and often surprising, and they’re changing the discussion about mobility in America. Download episode transcript

David Williams is the Policy Director of Opportunity Insights, the new research and policy institute led by world-renowned economists Raj Chetty (Harvard University), Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard University), and John Friedman (Brown University). In this episode, David discusses the fading American Dream, the work of his organization, the recent research showing how neighborhoods drive life outcomes, the implications for housing policy, “opportunity bargain” neighborhoods, and the latest Opportunity Atlas interactive map where users can search any neighborhood in the country and see where children have the best chance of climbing the income ladder as adults. "We’re trying to use big data to inform policy,” said Williams. “Neighborhoods are hyper-local. When kids are growing up in a certain place on a certain block, there is something about who they are growing up around, what they see, and those experiences that they’re exposed to that are extremely important. And that exposure is different just a mile away. And we can really see it through the numbers.” Intro/Closing Song by: David Szesztay - "Joyful Meeting" URL:freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Sz…Joyful_Meeting Comments: freemusicarchive.org/ Copyright: Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

John Friedman, Brown University Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs has devised a way to track economic mobility by neighborhood. #WPRO He says the "Opportunity Atlas" traces social and economic outcomes to the neighborhood level. https://www.opportunityatlas.org/

John Friedman, Brown University Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs has devised a way to track economic mobility by neighborhood. #WPRO He says the "Opportunity Atlas" traces social and economic outcomes to the neighborhood level. https://www.opportunityatlas.org/