Featured Work
New Research to Action Hub for Children in Immigrant Families
In partnership with the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, we are launching the Research to Action Hub for Children in Immigrant Families. See our new estimates of the number of people and children that could lose eligibility for the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit according to a proposed rule that would limit eligibility for lawfully present immigrants and their children, the vast majority of whom are U.S. citizens.
Research to Action Hub for Children in immigrant Families
New report
The story of child wellbeing along the U.S.–Mexico border goes beyond the hardships faced by recent immigrant families. Our new report on child neighborhood opportunity along the U.S.–Mexico border finds that overall, children in the region lack access to healthy neighborhood conditions, although neighborhood opportunity varies substantially between and within border states. Racial/ethnic inequities are pervasive.
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Latest Child Opportunity Index
COI 3.0-2024, published in August 2026, is the most recent release of the Child Opportunity Index. With annual data for all U.S. neighborhoods from 2012 to 2024, COI 3.0-2024 is available at the census tract, ZIP code and county level. Explore neighborhood opportunity in your city, state or nationwide.
Impact story
Children’s hospitals are increasingly focused on children's neighborhoods as an important social determinant of health. Dayton Children’s Hospital is leading the way in integrating the Child Opportunity Index (COI) into its data analytics and patient care practices.
Research brief
For many parents, affording child care is a well-known struggle. We quantify the extent of the problem by estimating child care affordability for center- and home-based care for full-time working parents by income, race/ethnicity and immigrant status, nationally and by state.
Equity Tools
Policy Equity Assessments
Our framework embeds questions of racial and ethnic equity into policy analysis
Child Opportunity Index
Measure, map and compare how neighborhoods support child opportunity
Maps
Explore the geography of child opportunity and racial/ethnic equity in your neighborhood
Datasets
We host 300+ datasets on child and family demographics, wellbeing, opportunity and equity
From Redlining to Child Opportunity
Examine how past policies influence modern-day child opportunity
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