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January 2, 2024
…Columbia experience. It offers a powerful example of how a privately conceived city can provide a great deal of public good. George Phydias Mitchell, a pioneer producer of natural gas,…
December 21, 2023
…record for a single-year increase. Our homeless population is now the largest it has ever been. Policy-makers must wake up to this national crisis. Our current approach is broken, and…
December 18, 2023
…liked to blame the decline of what was once the nation’s best-managed public-housing system on someone who left office in 1989: Ronald Reagan. Now, thanks to the results of an…
December 18, 2023
…Trump administrations. The dark clouds of populism and economic nationalism The United States has been living through an era of populism since the 2008 global financial crisis and Great Recession….
December 15, 2023
…in the nation have more chil- dren under five today than they did a decade ago—and Texas, Florida, and Tennessee are among their number. Our five selected states share some…
December 14, 2023
…new research finds that it may not be true, suggesting that policymakers would do better to focus more on helping the working class. WASHINGTON, DC—For decades, the share of national…
December 11, 2023
…public housing projects as locales of “concentrated poverty,” that was far from the original New Deal goal for the program, when enacted through the National Housing Act of 1937 (as…
December 8, 2023
…administrative burden of disallowing sugary beverages any more cumbersome than allowing the purchase of hot foods while continuing to disallow alcohol and tobacco? SNAP is one of the nation’s most vital safety net programs,…
December 1, 2023
…at Harvard and the National Fund for Workforce Solutions collaborated to conduct applied research that included convening focus groups, interviewing subject matter experts, conducting a scan of the National Fund…
December 1, 2023
…homes headed by single mothers. That number has not changed much since 2018. In 2020, nearly 45 percent of all births were to unmarried women, above the national average of…