From Data to Action: Lessons from the Child Poverty Action Lab

Harvard HGSE

Children's outcomes aren't shaped by any single system. They are shaped by how multiple systems — housing, schools, health care, job supports, neighborhood safety, benefits access — interact around place. Yet we have designed our public systems to treat each of these as a separate problem, missing how they stack up as either overlapping advantages or overlapping burdens in the neighborhoods where children actually grow up. The work of ending intergenerational poverty, then, is less a matter…