Fact-check · Sep 9, 2026 · Donald Trump
“Opportunity zones have lifted more than 1,000,000 people in our country out of poverty.”
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What the record shows
CEA projected in August 2020 that capital raised could lift 1 million people out of poverty (11% reduction in OZ poverty rates). Independent research finds modest or no measurable poverty reduction effects to date.
Sources
- The Impact of Opportunity Zones: An Initial Assessment
- Are Opportunity Zones Working? What the Literature Tells Us - Economic Innovation Group
- JUE Insight: The Impacts of Opportunity Zones on Zone Residents - ScienceDirect
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE IMPACTS OF OPPORTUNITY ZONES ON ZONE RESIDENTS
- Can Opportunity Zones Ever Meet Their Poverty-Fighting Promise?
- The Impact of Opportunity Zones on Housing Supply
From: LIVE: President Trump‘s 2026 Republican Midterm Convention: Day One - 9/9/26
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