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October 2, 2024
Higher Education: Making Education Beyond High School Work for All
…federal loans. Many students, especially those who grew up in families below the median income, got a raw deal from higher education. Disillusionment with college has yielded a 12 percent drop in…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…are the average across people of (weeks worked last year * usual hours per week worked last year). The estimates are for the civilian noninstitutionalized population of Americans aged 16…
May 14, 2024
Understanding Trends in Worker Pay over the Past 50 years
…the median worker has slowed, causing growth in the pay of the median worker to slow. The slowdown in median pay also reflects the particularly slow growth in pay among…
April 5, 2024
The US Is Failing Substance-Exposed Infants
…Testing, Social Work Assessment and Custody at 5 Hospitals,” Academic Pediatrics 23, no. 6 (August 2023): 1268–75, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36754165; and Sebastian Schoneich et al., “Incidence of Newborn Drug Testing and Variations by…
March 27, 2024
Perspectives on Place-Based Policy: Strategies for Workforce and Economic Development
Opportunity varies by place in the US, with the lowest levels of opportunity in states in the former Confederacy and American Indian reservations. Rural America faces unique challenges in relative…
December 13, 2023
Stronger Families, Safer Streets
…median share of single-parent families, compared to cities that have fewer single-parent families. That difference is even larger with respect to violent crime and homicide, specifically, with cities above the…
December 8, 2023
A Framework for Reforming Federal Graduate Student Aid Policy
…“Grad PLUS loans”) have nearly tripled in the last seven years (from $37 billion to $90 billion). Median Grad PLUS loan balances are nearly triple what they were just ten…
November 8, 2023
Measuring the Geography of Social Networks
…shows that there are strong social links between Norway and the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin, which saw large inflows of Norwegian migrants in the late 19th and early 20th…
November 1, 2023
The Ultimate Social Capital: A Story to Save the Union
…was ratified, there were secession movements in the Appalachian, Scots-Irish dominated sections of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia (the so-called Whiskey Rebellion) and New England (during the War of 1812). The…
September 12, 2023
Housing Finance Watch (Week 35 & 36, 2023)
PDF to full report Key takeaways: The median purchase rate rose 1/8 ppts. over the past week to 7 1/8%. Mortgage News Daily reported a daily avg. 30-year rate of…