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April 18, 2024
The Real Story Behind Food Insecurity in the US
…Christian Gregory recently found that most food insecure individuals “consume enough (or even too many) calories.” And research by Craig Gundersen and David Ribar found that most of those who spend the least on…
April 8, 2024
The $1,000 Tax Hike on Middle-Class Families
…barely keeping up with inflation, who are raising three kids on $75,000 per year (the median U.S. household income), will be asked to kick in almost $1,000 more to the federal government…
March 1, 2024
How the Children’s Bureau Lost Its Way
…On March 31, 1905, Chicagoans Jane Addams and Mary McDowell joined Lillian D. Wald, founder of New York’s Henry Street Settlement, and Edward T. Devine, editor of the journal Charities,…
February 23, 2024
After Milton’s MBTA Housing Defeat, The Way Forward Is With Persuasion, Not Mandates
…Morever, this should not be framed in racial terms: 16 percent of Milton’s residents are Black, and 15 percent are Asian American, Latino, or multiracial. There’s another way to get residents…
February 22, 2024
Chronic Absenteeism Could Be the Biggest Problem Facing Schools Right Now
…7 percent to 15 percent among Asian students, from 11 percent to 24 percent among white students, from 16 percent to 36 percent among Hispanic students, and from 18 percent…
January 2, 2024
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
…off: The schools-ranking website Niche lists it as one of the best U.S. cities to live in. Today, with median housing values of $456,400 and median gross monthly rent of $1,723, the development is…
December 18, 2023
The State of Democratic Capitalism: 2023
…— six years after the financial crisis — for the median inflation-adjusted wages to return to its level in 2007 level. For six years, over half of workers lost ground. It is…
December 14, 2023
The Myth of the 1%
…and more women have entered the workforce. This considerable improvement in Americans’ well-being is more striking than the share of income accruing to the country’s highest earners. Compare a median-income household to…
December 11, 2023
How Public Housing Encourages Single Parenthood and Penalizes Marriage
…data from HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research, median income per person in public and subsidized housing is just $8,000 today, and 77 % of tenants are classified as “lowest-income”…
November 11, 2023
Why is NYC Telling Teachers to Not Keep Kids Safe?
…found that Black children “were killed by family members at about seven times the rate for white and Asian children and three times the rate for Hispanic children.” But no,…