Welcome to Our Research Archive
Search and filter by content type, issue area, author, and keyword
January 19, 2024
The Case for Curriculum
Since A Nation at Risk, Education Reform Efforts Have Mostly Stopped at the Classroom Door Executive Summary Decades of education reform have left policymakers, educators, and students alike fatigued and unimpressed….
January 2, 2024
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
…Philip Johnson and Robert A.M. Stern. (Disney has sold off most of its holdings.) Not far from Seoul, the Songdo International Business District was developed by a consortium of real…
December 18, 2023
No Excuses Now for NYCHA
…the sites of neighborhoods that the city’s Slum Clearance Committee, headed by Robert Moses, demolished without consulting the public. Today, however, NYCHA has limited resources, and residents are not necessarily…
December 14, 2023
Harnessing Tailwinds on State and Local Land-Use Reform: A Bipartisan Playbook
…Robert Doar, President, American Enterprise Institute Will Marshall, President, Progressive Policy Institute 11:10 a.m. Panel I: How We Got into the Housing Policy Mess and Why We Need to Fix…
December 13, 2023
Stronger Families, Safer Streets
…family. Drawing on the work of scholars like Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson—who found that “(f)amily structure is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, predictors of … urban violence…
November 14, 2023
The Comeback City
…the process of change. Don’t expect it to take less than thirty years.”3 Read the full report. Sam Roberts, “Given New York Today, Could Anyone Lead It?,” New York Times,…
November 9, 2023
Child Support Policy: Areas of Emerging Agreement and Ongoing Debate
This paper will be delivered at the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management 2023 Fall Research Conference. Abstract The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) system has a broad scope and provides…
October 31, 2023
Lawmakers Continue Trying to Revive Pandemic-Style Benefits
…totaled $118 billion—the equivalent of four regular years of state UI payments nationwide. Reviving PUA would contradict the testimony of Robert Asaro Angelo, New Jersey’s labor commissioner and a recent Democratic…
October 27, 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
…Mills to Robert Bork and Barbara Jordan, whose ideas illuminate the larger transformations Leonhardt describes. The book’s argument belongs to a genre, reconsiderations of neoliberalism, that’s somewhat familiar by now…
October 24, 2023
Roanoke Atones for Urban Renewal—Artistically
Discussions of the ill effects of public housing, urban renewal, and urban freeways usually focus on big cities: the Chicago-lakefront hellhole called the Robert Taylor Homes, now-demolished; Robert Moses’s Cross-Bronx…