Just before Juneteenth, in a very extraordinary moment for the Nation, the White House recognized “exclusionary zoning” and its effect on racial discrimination in the housing market for the first time. In the White House blog (yes they have a blog), authors Cecilia Rouse, Jared Bernstein, Helen Knudsen, and Jeffery Zhang wrote about Juneteenth — …
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Climate change organizations are out there, but they may look different than you think. That’s because most organizations don’t have the words “climate change” attached to them. This is especially true in our federal government, where funding opportunities are often absent the ‘buzzworthy’ label. But the truth of the matter is that many organizations do …
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The Mississippi River is a beast! Stretching an incredible 2,350 miles, it navigates through 10 states and 29 “Mississippi River flood control systems” to discharge some 593,000 cubic feet of water per second into the Gulf of Mexico. No big deal right? Wrong. Not only is the Mississippi River the fourth largest river in the …
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Are gun policies really working in America? According to the Gun Policy Outcome Explorer by the RAND Corporation, it depends on who you ask. While gun possession is largely (and constitutionally) protected in the United States, the often tragic results of such possession – firearm homicides, murders, mass shootings — aren’t always discussed equally. And …
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The death of George Floyd sparked protests and civil unrest across the country on a scale that hasn’t been seen since the 1960’s. And all of us, participants or not, have to sit back and think about the sheer magnitude of it all. Because unlike other racially charged events since Dr. King’s assassination — that …
As of this writing, COVID-19 has killed 296,000 Americans and more than 108,000 are hospitalized. Needless to say, deaths are likely to substantially increase in the coming months. The good news? A vaccine is days away. The bad news? Distribution looks pretty difficult. In the meantime however, there are several tools you can use to …
This is an introduction for our first series: Analyzing the 2020 Election: A Look at Every Swing State As we continue to sift through the 2020 election data, analyzing every detail and trying to gain some sort of consensus about what it all means, it’s important to look at what we already know and see …
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