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Greg Acs, vice president for the Tax and Income Supports Division at the Urban Institute, spoke with Virginia Public Media about the risks of addressing affordability in a zero-sum context that focuses on who bears the short-term costs of a policy instead of its potential for growth.
Elaine Maag discusses guaranteed income programs SummaryElaine Maag spoke on Soledad O’Brien’s Matter of Fact about how guaranteed income programs can support families with low incomes and benefit communities.- SummaryFollowing federal job and spending cuts, the Washington , DC, region has seen a sharp increase in unemployment claims, suggesting more economic effects are coming.
- SummaryCompared with the rest of the US, the racial housing gap between Black and white households on Long Island is smaller, but wealth disparities and a history of discrimination continue to influence the market.
Michael Neal speaks about the racial homeownership gap SummaryMichael Neal, a housing finance expert at the Urban Institute, spoke with Bankrate about factors driving Black homeownership in the US, which still today has never passed 50 percent.
Kristin Blagg discusses improvements in fourth-grade standardized test scores in Alabama SummaryFollowing the release of the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores in January, principal policy researcher Kristin Blagg spoke with the Alabama Reflector about how Alabama’s fourth-graders showed even greater improvement than what the raw NAEP data show.
Andrew Rumbach discusses the need for increasing mobile and manufactured homes’ resilience
