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The ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION: EQUITY AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY






We are dedicated to ensuring every American working family can meet its basic needs and have a path to a better future.



More than 44 million working households—representing more than 90 million people across the United States—struggle to pay their bills each month. Nearly four in 10 households can’t withstand an unexpected monthly expense greater than $400. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare and compounded this fragility in the financial well-being of so many American families. Even before the mass layoffs in early 2020, more than 28 million Americans lacked health insurance.

Unforeseen expenses—a home or auto repair, an emergency hospital visit—can so easily become insurmountable obstacles and have cascading effects on a family’s ability to secure or maintain housing, childcare, food, transportation, and healthcare. This is the picture of economic insecurity in the United States.




Tens of millions of Americans—by some counts, more than 40% of all households—cannot afford the basic expenses of food, housing, transportation, childcare and communications. The households—known by the acronym ALICE, for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed—are working Americans who earn more than the official federal poverty measurement, yet still can’t keep up with the rising cost of living.



At The Rockefeller Foundation, our strategy is grounded in two pathways: identifying and scaling public and private sector economic policies and mobilizing private capital in people and places through place-based grantmaking and investing.




Expand Equity and Economic Opportunity - The Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation has over 100 years of history expanding opportunity for America’s working families. With all of these investments, the Foundation has been strategic in addressing the structural barriers to equal access and equal opportunity.



By leveraging public policy, partnerships with private enterprise, and visible investments in people and place, we're advancing an equitable pathway to prosperity for millions of working families across the U.S.




Advancing public policies proven to boost earnings for America's working families.





Promoting partnerships to spur greater investment in low-income communities across the country.


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