Most Americans endorse the ideal of equal opportunity, and many interpret this ideal as requiring that children from different backgrounds…
America’s regional disparities are large and regional convergence has declined if not disappeared. This wildly uneven economic landscape…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and staffed and supported by the Urban Institute, the US Partnership on Mobility from…
Elementary school teachers’ math anxiety has been found to play a role in their students’ math achievement. The current study addresses the…
Like trade, immigration produces both winners and losers. It may be more useful, therefore, to think of immigration not in terms of…
Risk-adjustment algorithms typically incorporate demographic and clinical variables to equalize compensation to insurers for enrollees who…
In the 1960s, public support for Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a federal program that provided cash benefits to eligible…
In America, there’s a significant kind of public insistence that one’s “freedom” is fundamentally tied to one’s wealth.
Much of the…
This is the first installment of The Big Picture, a public symposium on what’s at stake in Trump’s America, co-organized by Public Books…