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Understanding more about young adults’ eligibility and participation in social safety net programs can inform efforts to support young adults during periods of instability.
Lessons from Memphis’s collaborative campaign against blight The city's first blight charter codifies the ambitious vision that all neighborhoods have the right to be free from the harms that blight causes.Putting politics into international development? It’s about time For too long, aid programs operated with the convenient fiction that assistance work was purely technical. But to succeed, aid programs need to pay attention to politics.Changing housing is not the same as changing neighborhoods Children in a recent study who moved to lower-poverty areas had better education and employment as adults. But was it the neighborhood change or something else?During Reentry Week, remember the people coming back from local jails Less than 20 percent of jail admissions result in a stay of a month or more. But even short stints in jail can bring long-term challenges after returning home.Why is the rich United States in such poor health? Americans die younger and experience more injury and illness than people in other rich nations, despite the United States spending almost twice as much per person on health care.A broader perspective on corporate tax reform At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Tax Policy Center codirector Eric Toder urged lawmakers to think beyond the traditional cut-the-rates, broaden-the-base solution.