The Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity & Healthy Development uses research and data tools to shine a light on the systemic inequities that may keep children from growing up healthy. These findings can augment local and national conversations on child poverty, structural racism, immigration, health equity, and working families.
Our work has been covered by major news outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, TIME, and The Hill. We work with journalists to utilize our data to better understand the state of child equity in the U.S.
We welcome requests from and collaborations with all media. Please contact our Communications Director Leah Shafer.
Recent media coverage includes:
- ‘A world apart’: How racial segregation continues to determine opportunity for American kids. A March 2024 article in USA Today covers findings on racial/ethnic inequities in neighborhood opportunity from the release of the Child Opportunity Index 3.0. Clemens Noelke is quoted.
- Safety Net Barriers Add to Child Poverty in Immigrant Families. A feature in The New York Times in April 2023 discusses the barriers that children in immigrant families face in accessing social safety net programs. Professor and Institute Director Dolores Acevedo-Garcia is quoted and our research is cited.
- ‘Full-time work doesn’t pay’: Why are so many working American families living day to day? In a September 2022 article, USA Today covers our research on inequities in race/ethnicity, income, and nativity in family job quality. Senior Scientist and Institute Associate Director Pamela Joshi and doctoral student Abigail N. Walters are quoted.
- Every child deserves good health. That requires urgent action on equity. In an April 2022 op-ed in The Boston Globe, the president of Boston Children’s Hospital and the dean of the faculty at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health refer to the Child Opportunity Index to make a case for additional investment in maternal and child health, early childhood support, and behavioral health and wellness.
- What the Child Tax Credit fight says about America. In an op-ed in The Hill in January 2022, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President Dr. Richard Besser explain how the expanded Child Tax Credit was a transformational policy—and what still needs to be done to further reduce child poverty equitably.