Policy
Success Sequence
Research shows that young people who finish high school, work full time, and wait until marriage to have children avoid poverty as adults 97% of the time. These life milestones, together known as the “success sequence,” represent a framework for strengthening upward mobility for Utah’s youth.
Sutherland Institute is working to promote these principles and remove barriers that make it harder for Utahns to achieve the success sequence. Through quality research, coalition building, and partnerships with local and national experts and leaders committed to upward mobility, Sutherland is elevating the importance and impact of education, work and family as key pillars of opportunity for the next generation.
Success Sequence
Research shows that young people who finish high school, work full time, and wait until marriage to have children avoid poverty as adults 97% of the time. These life milestones, together known as the “success sequence,” represent a framework for strengthening upward mobility for Utah’s youth.
Sutherland Institute is working to promote these principles and remove barriers that make it harder for Utahns to achieve the success sequence. Through quality research, coalition building, and partnerships with local and national experts and leaders committed to upward mobility, Sutherland is elevating the importance and impact of education, work and family as key pillars of opportunity for the next generation.
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Crucial decisions for increasing the odds of success
How to defend against criticisms of the success sequence
The success sequence as an anti-poverty approach
How states can implement the success sequence
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Are we losing the war on poverty? Angela Rachidi on the success sequence as a solution
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What is the success sequence and why does it make an impact? #success #SuccessSequence #education
A hand up, not a handout.
Insights & Takeaways
Five Family Policy Recommendations Unveiled in New Sutherland Institute Report
Sutherland Institute announced today a new report titled “The Utah Family Miracle: Five Policy Ideas to Keep Utah Families Strong and Stable.”
How family impacts education – and why we should track it
Much of the national or state data surrounding outcomes and performance in education is commonly searchable by factors like gender, race or income. Why not family structure data?
How to bring the success sequence to Utah students
Utah has been a leader in education, priding itself on its focus on parents’ rights in education and strong families generally. But there’s always room for improvement.
Why we need the success sequence in Utah schools
By keeping celebrations and traditions grounded in specific values, like religion and patriotism, we share and pass on those values to others. Sadly, a decreasing number of Americans today see the importance of those values. Here’s how the success sequence can help.
Absenteeism and the success sequence
What’s at the root of chronic absenteeism in schools? How should we view this current new normal in our post-pandemic world? What do we do about it now?
Family should be priority for interim
Another civic institution guided clearly by leaders that is as important and impactful, if not more, to the well-being of society: families led by parents.
For kids, marriage still matters
We should be teaching the ‘success sequence’ in public schools. Research has proven marriage’s value.
How to strengthen the ‘success sequence’ in Utah
Growing numbers of young adults across America — including here in Utah — are moving into adulthood without a durable connection to two benchmarks strongly connected to human well-being: work and marriage.
Why Utah students would benefit from the ‘success sequence’
As Utah leaders seek ways to improve upward mobility for our state’s youth, recent data sheds light on the importance of the family.