In the 1960s, public support for Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a federal program that provided cash benefits to eligible…
Many organizations have budgets that expire at the end of the fiscal year and may face incentives to rush to spend resources on low-quality…
The labor market increasingly rewards social skills. Between 1980 and 2012, jobs requiring high levels of social interaction grew by nearly…
Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management provides detailed accounts of a range of public health emergencies.…
In America, there’s a significant kind of public insistence that one’s “freedom” is fundamentally tied to one’s wealth.
Much of the…
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This study investigates change over time in the level of hiring discrimination in US labor markets. We perform a meta-analysis of every…
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…
This article brings a new perspective to the analysis of the wage effects of the Mariel boatlift crisis, in which an estimated 125,000…
A framework for understanding the roles individuals and organizations can play in a movement for social change.