Elizabeth Kneebone is a fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings. Her work primarily focuses on urban and suburban poverty, metropolitan demographics, and tax policies that support low-income workers and communities.

Kneebone has authored a number of Brookings reports, including “The Great Recession and Poverty in Metropolitan America,” “Job Sprawl Revisited: The Changing Geography of Metropolitan Employment,” and “Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit to Benefit Families and Places.” She served as co-author on several other reports, including “The Re-Emergence of Concentrated Poverty: Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s,” “Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America,” and “Responding to the New Geography of Poverty: Recent Trends in the Earned Income Tax Credit.”

Prior to joining Brookings, Kneebone worked as a research project manager for IFF (formerly the Illinois Facilities Fund), where her work assessed the geographic distribution of need for services and programs targeted to low-income people and places. She holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and a bachelor’s degree in history from Indiana University.

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