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Americans Have Fled to Red States. Blue States Can Win Them Back.
The U.S. population has shifted away from blue states and toward red states in recent years.
Priced out of the American dream
Owning a home feels increasingly unattainable for many middle-class Americans. Last year, home prices surged to nearly five times the median income.
Parents’ precarious work schedules and children’s asthma management
Many working parents in the United States are employed in jobs that expose them to challenging working conditions, including low wages, limited benefits, and unstable and unpredictable work schedules.
Stigma and the Social Safety Net
Stigma features prominently in debates about the social safety net, but empirically disentangling its role has left open many questions about whether it is a meaningful—or movable—barrier to take-up.
From Racialized Punishment to Care and Accountability: Reimagining Justice through a Historically Informed, Racial Equity Lens
This chapter adopts a historically informed institution of racial domination framework to interpret trends in racial disparities in punishment, drawing from recent empirical and theoretical developmen
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance for Workers in the Hourly Service Sector
Current policy debate often assumes that large employers offer health insurance to their workers.
Beyond borders: Does firm-level exposure to state and local paid sick leave mandates lead to intra-firm spillovers?
States and localities have passed labor standards to raise the floor on job quality, including mandating employer provision of paid sick leave (PSL).
Lessons for Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers from the Great Recession and the COVID Recession
This paper simulates economic developments as if the discretionary fiscal stimulus enacted in the past two recessions had not occurred and additional automatic fiscal stabilizers had been deployed ins
Social and Economic Changes in American Indian Reservations: A Databook of the US Census and the American Community Survey, Third Edition 1990-2020
This databook presents fourteen indicators of population, income, poverty, labor, housing, and education for Indian reservations in the Lower 48 states in the US from 1990 to 2020.
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