Our mission is simple: Helping all people and communities become, and remain, economically secure. The work, however, is complex. The Insight Center believes that to dismantle racial and gender inequity, we all must reimagine—and redefine—the rules, policies, narratives, and economic theories that have entrenched generations of inequality and injustice. We also believe that it is time to embark on a serious and sustained effort to center Blackness and the Black experience as a necessary strategy to ensure economic liberation for all Americans.

We do this across three areas of work:

As we endure many crises, we must firmly look ahead—to opportunities to build an economy that works for people of different races and from different places; white, Black, or Brown; Native or newcomer.