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Harvard Kennedy School unites research with practice

The Child & Family Wellbeing Accelerator helps government agencies connect families with community services. And families thrive.

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Research: Trust in government, better peacekeeping, and more

In the paper “Building Mass Support for Global Pandemic Recovery Efforts in the United States,” Gautam Nair and his coauthor, Kyle Peyton, examine Americans’ support for international pandemic-recovery efforts.

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New research reveals how mandates narrow gender gaps in paid sick leave coverage for low-wage workers in the U.S.

New research by scholars from Harvard and the University of California, San Francisco finds that service sector workers in the United States have limited and unequal access to paid sick leave.

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How do hospital closures in the United States impact patient care?

COVID-19 has sent hospitals reeling, posing a significant challenge for patient care. Soroush Saghafian discusses the impact of hospital closures and what policymakers can do to help keep the doors open for some of America’s most at-risk hospitals.

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Experts argue that more work is needed to remove the stigma of a criminal record on job applications

Sandra Susan Smith and Christopher Herring find that ‘banning the box’ is just the beginning.

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Global study: In public health messaging, negative framing triggers anxiety — not better outcomes

Harvard researchers lead vast experiment in 84 countries to test whether public health messages that stress positive benefits of protective behavior work better than those that warn of risks.

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Assessing growth: Which countries are surging—and which are not

China, Vietnam, and Indonesia will be among the fastest-growing countries in the coming decade, according to new Growth Lab projections.

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