This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Increasingly, the debate around reducing street homelessness around Los Angeles is focused on what to build. Should the city continue to direct most resources toward creating permanent housing with services,…
With the Senate seeking to finalize a proposed bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill before leaving on August recess, one large question still looms: how to pay for it. One idea…
The Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) recently released the 2022 National Organic Research Agenda (NORA). It finds that while demand for organic products is on the rise, farmers still face challenges…
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea The Food and Drug Administration took 130 enforcement actions against counterfeit medication rings from 2016 through…
I’ve been hearing a lot about how Wall Street is primarily to blame for the dramatic rise in housing costs. Yes, it’s easy to blame Wall Street for everything, but…
In 1865, The US government decided that newly freed African Americans should have a plot of land to call their own, and promised emancipated slaves “40 acres and a mule” to build…
A report published by The Global Alliance for the Future of Food and Transformational Investing in Food Systems (TIFS) Initiative reveals that social and environmental investments create sustainable, equitable, and…
American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) peoples have long faced barriers to asset building. More than half of AI/AN populations are un- or underbanked, financial services often don’t operate on…
Exploiting the arrangement of railroad tracks in northern cities, we explore the extent to which segregation impacts homicide victimization by race. Our results reveal a robust positive relationship between segregation…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many communities across America are finding it difficult to locate available apartments for homeless services clients participating in the Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) program, a temporary federal measure created in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In response to the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Congress pumped trillions of dollars into the economy in the form of stimulus checks, expanded unemployment benefits, and targeted…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rather than indiscriminately shooting, the 18-year-old suspect targeted a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood. He allegedly wrote a white supremacist manifesto online, traveled about 200 miles to the store, and livestreamed…