How is the EOI relevant to policymakers?
Policymakers from both sides of the aisle acknowledge that there is no silver bullet solution in bridging our current economic opportunity gap, and the EOI provides them a framework in which they can quantify, measure, and benchmark economic opportunity to better target policies and gauge their effectiveness by race and gender and by state. 15. Give me an example of how a policymaker would use the EOI. For example, if a change in diet and lifestyle choices resulted in a decline of the prevalence of diabetes in the United States, the EOI would be able to capture the impact of this trend on the expected lifetime income of Americans by race and gender. As a result, policymakers can begin to benchmark and measure the potential impact of their desired policy outcomes on specific demographic groups in order to allocate limited resources where they are needed the most.
