Lafayette Square Institute
What happens to an economy that stops investing in the people who built it?
The stakes
For working-class families, access to the markets that build wealth has become out-of-reach.
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Housing costs have outpaced income for decades.
Housing
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Nearly three million American family businesses will change hands this decade with no succession path in place.
Employee Ownership
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Job quality erosion continues alongside rising risk of AI disruption.
Technology & Job Quality
One path
Capital and policy continue to flow around working-class places. The wealth gap widens. Fewer families gain access to an ownership stake in the American Dream.
Our path
Capital and policy move in concert toward working-class people and working-class places. Markets begin to work again for the communities that built the American economy.
Our work
Lafayette Square Institute develops bipartisan policy and AI-enabled tools that unlock private investment in working-class people and working-class places.
How we work
Policy, technology, and coalitions, working in concert.
Bipartisan policy that shifts markets.
LSI's research portfolios on housing, employee ownership, and job quality develop evidence-based policy frameworks that drive prosperity for working-class communities.
Explore the research → 02 · TechnologyData products that connect communities to capital.
LSI builds AI-enabled data tools that surface where markets are not reaching working-class places and connect those communities to the capital and benefits they need.
Explore the tools → 03 · CoalitionsCoalitions that bridge communities, Capitol Hill, and capital markets.
LSI convenes stakeholders across geographies, ideologies, and sectors to advance proven tools that restore economic mobility across the United States.
See the coalitions →LSI updates
Monthly updates from Lafayette Square Institute.
Occasional updates on new research, data product releases, and coalition convenings from the Institute.