The Urban Institute is a Washington D.C.-based think tank that carries out economic and social policy research to "open minds, shape decisions, and offer solutions". The institute receives funding from government contracts, foundations and private donors. The Urban Institute measures policy effects, compares options, shows which stakeholders get the most and least, tests conventional wisdom, reveals trends, and makes costs, benefits, and risks explicit. The Urban Institute has been referred to as "independent" and as "liberal". In 2020, the Urban Institute co-hosted the second annual Sadie T.M. Alexander Conference for Economics and Related Fields with The Sadie Collective in Washington D.C. More information...
In June 2020 the website urban.org was on the 13,583rd place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 22,150th place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "urban.org" is the 17,091st most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).
The website is placed before oxfordtimes.co.uk and after podcastone.com in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.
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