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How Women Legislators Help States Become More Supportive of Older Citizens
Joanne Connor Green and Charles Lockhart, May 2013
Women, Aging Society, Public Sector Reforms
The Pros and Cons of State Tax Breaks for Senior Citizens
Bayliss J. Camp and Charles Lockhart, May 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Aging Society
Why Autonomous Social Movements Hold the Key to Reducing Violence against Women
Mala Htun and S. Laurel Weldon, May 2013
Women, Social Movements, International Development
What Happens to Poor Families When They Hit Welfare Time Limits and Cash Benefits Disappear?
Sandra Butler, May 2013
Family Policies, Antipoverty Policy, Public Sector Reforms
How the Heritage Foundation Uses Strange Math and Flawed Logic to Inflate the Cost of Immigration Reform
Richard Alba, May 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Immigrants & Immigration Reform
Americans Care about Inequality When It Limits Opportunity
Leslie McCall, April 2013
Inequality & the Middle Class, Media and Public Opinion
Black Politics and the Origins of America's Prison Boom
Michael Javen Fortner, April 2013
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Cities and Regions
How America's Tradition of Localism Could Help Gun Control
Joseph Blocher, April 2013
Gun Control, Cities and Regions, Courts & Court Decisions
When Election Rules Undermine Democracy
Amel Ahmed, April 2013
Voters and Voter Participation, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
The Tea Party and the Revival of Paranoia in U.S. Politics
Christopher S. Parker, April 2013
Social Movements, Media and Public Opinion
What Research Tells Us about Living a Productive and Satisfying Old Age
Lenard W. Kaye, April 2013
Aging Society, Health Care Reform
Why Do Some U.S. States Support Elders Better Than Others?
Charles Lockhart, April 2013
Cities and Regions, Aging Society, Medicare & Medicaid, Social Security
Environmental Education Only Works When People Feel Secure
Leah S. Horowitz, April 2013
Environment
Debunking the "I Can't Make Any Difference" Rationale for Doing Nothing about Climate Change
Melissa Lane, April 2013
Climate Change Policies & Politics, Media and Public Opinion
How Competition to Attract Businesses Leads to Economic Losses for Cities and States
Cynthia L. Rogers, April 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Economic Growth & Innovation
Why Abortion Controversies are So Central to U.S. Politics
Drew Halfmann, April 2013
Reproductive Health, Social Movements, Courts & Court Decisions, Policies in Other Nations
How Targeted Deterrence Helps Police Reduce Gun Deaths
Michael Sierra-Arevalo, April 2013
Gun Control, Cities and Regions
America's Voting Problems Occur Mostly in Urban Areas
David C. Kimball, April 2013
Cities and Regions, Voters and Voter Participation, Public Sector Reforms, Election 2012
How the United States Became a Regulatory Laggard
David Vogel, April 2013
Pharmaceutical & Food Regulation, Environment, Policies in Other Nations
How to Make Sure Health Reform Offers Affordable Insurance to All Low Income Families
Kelsey McCowan Heilman, April 2013
Medicare & Medicaid, Health Care Reform, Health Care Delivery
The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
Ira Katznelson, April 2013
Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Public Sector Reforms
Waiting for Real Reform: How Half-Way Measures Leave Immigrants in Limbo and Deprive America of Their Talents
Ernesto Castañeda, April 2013
Immigrants & Immigration Reform
What to Expect as Venezuela Moves On after Hugo Chavez
Jennifer L. McCoy, April 2013
U.S. Foreign Policy, Policies in Other Nations
The Widening Partisan Gender Gap in the U.S. Congress
Karen Beckwith, March 2013
Women, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Election 2012
Reclaiming Democratic Populism
Harry C. Boyte, March 2013
Social Movements, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Why America Needs Another "Sputnik Moment" to Tackle National Challenges
Thomas F. Remington, March 2013
Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
World Conferences in the Fight for Women's Rights
Dongxiao Liu, March 2013
Women, International Development
Unequal Citizen Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy
Henry E. Brady, Kay Lehman Schlozman and Sidney Verba, March 2013
Voters and Voter Participation, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Civic Engagement
Unfair Punishment at School Can Push America's Minority Students into Troubled Lives
Michael Rocque, March 2013
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, School Reform, K-12 Education
Using Alternatives to School Suspension Can Improve Student Success and Community Safety
Jenni W. Owen, March 2013
School Reform, K-12 Education
The Challenge of Ensuring Just Compensation for Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoners
Michael Leo Owens, March 2013
Criminal Justice, Courts & Court Decisions
The Role of Empathy in Crime, Policing, and Justice
Chad Posick, March 2013
Criminal Justice
Why the Decline of Catholic Schools Matters
Carol Ann MacGregor, March 2013
Religion, Race and Ethnicity, K-12 Education
The Tea Party Lives On - And Pulls Republicans to the Right
Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson, February 2013
Social Movements, Election 2012
The Business of Egg and Sperm Donation
Rene Almeling, February 2013
Science & Technology, Women, Reproductive Health
Targeting Extreme Polluters to Reduce Carbon Emissions from the Electricity Sector
Don Grant, Andrew K. Jorgenson and Wesley Longhofer, February 2013
Economic Growth & Innovation, Environment, Energy
Money Matters - For All Schoolchildren
Melissa F. Weiner, February 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, School Reform, K-12 Education
The Vital Mission of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Daniel Carpenter, February 2013
Pharmaceutical & Food Regulation, Health Care Reform
Unmarried Baby Boomers on the Brink of Old Age
Susan L. Brown, February 2013
Aging Society, Family Policies
What the Proliferation of Recognized Mental Disorders Means for American Health Care
Owen Whooley, February 2013
Pharmaceutical & Food Regulation, Mental Health, Health Care Reform
Migrant Health in the Debate about Immigration Reform
Micah Gell-Redman, February 2013
Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Health Care Reform, Health Care Delivery
Deficit Hawks Reflect the Views of the Wealthy, Not the Majority
Benjamin I. Page, February 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Media and Public Opinion
Obama, Arab-Israeli Relations, and the Legacy of Western Involvement in the Middle East
Jonathan Schneer, February 2013
Religion, War & the Military, U.S. Foreign Policy, Policies in Other Nations
Why There is Nothing Scary about the U.S. National Debt
Anne Mayhew, February 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes
How Did We Get Here? The Roots of Deficit Brinksmanship
Joseph White, February 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
What Can U.S. Presidents Accomplish in a Second Term?
Daniel Paul Franklin, February 2013
Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Do New Communications Media - Like the Internet - Hurt Individuals and Society?
Joli Jensen, February 2013
Science & Technology, Media and Public Opinion
To Help Disadvantaged Children Learn, We Must Acknowledge that Poverty Hampers Education
Helen F. Ladd, January 2013
Children & Families, School Reform, K-12 Education, Antipoverty Policy
The Hidden Campaign to Spread Doubt about Climate Science
Robert J. Brulle, January 2013
Environment, Climate Change Policies & Politics, Media and Public Opinion
Pharmaceutical Marketing and the Use of Mental Health Medications
Marissa King, January 2013
Pharmaceutical & Food Regulation, Mental Health, Health Care Reform
Are Politicians Prejudiced against the Poor?
Nicholas Carnes and John Holbein, January 2013
Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
The Past and Future Politics of U.S. Environmental Reforms
Nathaniel Loewentheil, January 2013
Environment, Climate Change Policies & Politics, Social Movements
Why are Republicans Trying to Kill America's Wind and Solar Power Industries?
Eban Goodstein, January 2013
Economic Growth & Innovation, Energy, Climate Change Policies & Politics
Does Providing Publicly Funded Jobs to Hard-to-Employ People Reduce Crime and Drug Use?
Sarah Shannon, January 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Jobs and Workers, Criminal Justice
Should Citizens Have a Say about Emerging Technologies?
Jennifer Kuzma, January 2013
Science & Technology, Economic Growth & Innovation, Media and Public Opinion
How the War on Drugs and Terror Creates New Challenges for Nonprofits Operating across the U.S.-Mexican Border
Margath A. Walker, January 2013
Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Cities and Regions
Are Religious Americans Opposed to Science?
John H. Evans, January 2013
Science & Technology, Religion, Social Movements, Media and Public Opinion
How National Advocates Encourage Conservative Activism on America's College Campuses
Amy J. Binder and Kate Wood, January 2013
Higher Education, Social Movements, Civic Engagement
The Case for Curbing Oklahoma's Oil and Gas Tax Breaks
David Blatt, January 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Energy
How Do Effective Associations Spur Citizen Engagement?
Hahrie Han, January 2013
Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Civic Engagement
How Debt Showdowns Encourage Credit Bubbles
Sarah Quinn, January 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Economic Growth & Innovation, Housing
The Climate Change Denial Campaign
Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright, January 2013
Environment, Energy, Climate Change Policies & Politics, Social Movements, Media and Public Opinion
The Polarization of U.S. Public Opinion on Climate Change
Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright, January 2013
Environment, Climate Change Policies & Politics, Media and Public Opinion
How the Wealthiest of America's Rich Make Their Money
Alexander Hicks, January 2013
Inequality & the Middle Class
The Promise of the "Fossil Free" Movement to Demand Divestment from Carbon Energy Corporations
Bill McKibben, January 2013
Environment, Energy, Climate Change Policies & Politics, Civic Engagement
Promoting Women's Political Representation Overseas
Sarah Bush, January 2013
Women, Policies in Other Nations, International Development
Simple Screening Tests Could Reduce Colon Cancer Deaths in Rural America - Including Rural Areas of Maine
Christy Roix Daggett, January 2013
Cities and Regions, Health Care Reform, Health Care Delivery
A Strategy to Foster Advanced Manufacturing in the United States
Fred Block, Matthew R. Keller, Andrew Schrank and Josh Whitford, December 2012
Economic Growth & Innovation
Can Workers and Environmentalists Learn to Cooperate?
Erik Loomis, December 2012
Unions & the Labor Movement, Jobs and Workers, Environment
When Easy Credit Replaces Wage Increases, Prosperity is Fragile and America's Middle Class Suffers
Kevin T. Leicht, December 2012
Economic Growth & Innovation, Inequality & the Middle Class
How Democrats and Republicans Can Draw Uncommitted Minorities into Politics
Zoltan Hajnal and Taeku Lee, December 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Voters and Voter Participation
Should States Create Exchanges to Implement ObamaCare?
David K. Jones, December 2012
Health Care Reform, Public Sector Reforms
Promoting Civic Habits in Multi-Cultural Schools
Ashley Elizabeth Anglin, December 2012
Race and Ethnicity, School Reform, K-12 Education, Civic Engagement
The Futility and High Cost of Criminalizing Marijuana
Katherine Beckett, December 2012
Criminal Justice, Public Sector Reforms, Government Agencies, Courts & Court Decisions
How Families Suffer When So Many Fathers Go to Prison
Raymond R. Swisher, December 2012
Criminal Justice, Children & Families
Is It Wise to List Juvenile Sex Offenders on Public Registers?
Susan Meyers Chandler, December 2012
Criminal Justice, Children & Families
Why Poverty Leads to Obesity and Life-Long Problems
Hedwig Lee, December 2012
Health Care Reform, Antipoverty Policy
Japan, the United States, and the Shifting Balance of Air Power in Northeast Asia
Oriana Skylar Mastro, December 2012
War & the Military, U.S. Foreign Policy, Security & Intelligence
Understanding How Mexican Immigrants Become Full Members of American Society
Elizabeth S. Ackert, December 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Cities and Regions
The Troubling Fate of Aged Prisoners on Death Row
Elizabeth Rapaport, December 2012
Criminal Justice, Aging Society
Think Tanks and the Rise of Savvy Policy Entrepreneurs
Thomas Medvetz, December 2012
Civic Engagement
America's Missing Popular Movement for Gun Control
Kristin Goss, December 2012
Gun Control, Social Movements
Who Pays America's Taxes?
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Vanessa Williamson, November 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
America's Low Taxes in Comparative Perspective
Andrea Louise Campbell, November 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Will State and Local Crackdowns Prevent Immigrants from Fitting In to American Society?
Helen B. Marrow, November 2012
Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Cities and Regions
Lessons from Hawaii's Efforts to Use "Race to the Top" to Boost Achievement of Native Hawaiian School Children
Morgen Johansen, November 2012
Race and Ethnicity, School Reform, K-12 Education
Under Democratic Presidents, Minorities Make Economic Gains - And So Do Whites
Zoltan Hajnal and Jeremy D. Horowitz, November 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Why the U.S. Congress Cannot Really Declare War - And What Might be Done about It
Brien Hallett, November 2012
Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, War & the Military
The Strengths and Limits of the Earned Income Tax Credit as a Tool to Fight Poverty
Daniel S. Feder, November 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Antipoverty Policy
When and Why Have Americans Supported Higher Taxes?
Elizabeth Pearson, November 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Time Does Not Heal All Wounds: Psychological Problems for Poor Mothers Five Years after Hurricane Katrina
Elizabeth Fussell, Jean E. Rhodes and Mary C. Waters, October 2012
Women, Disaster & Emergency, Children & Families
How U.S. Social Indicators are Skewed by the Failure to Count Rising Numbers of Prisoners
Becky Pettit, October 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
Why Does U.S. Politics Tilt toward the Wealthy?
Lisa Disch, October 2012
Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Civic Engagement
How Mass Imprisonment Burdens the United States with a Distrustful Civic Underclass
Vesla Mae Weaver, October 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Civic Engagement
How Tough Policing in Immigrant Communities Can Backfire
David Kirk and Andrew V. Papachristos, October 2012
Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Criminal Justice
Misinformation Campaigns in the Long War to Undermine Social Security
Max J. Skidmore, October 2012
Social Security, Media and Public Opinion
Does Africa Need a New Green Revolution to Fight Hunger?
Ron Aminzade, October 2012
International Development
Remaking Social Security as a Compact Across Generations to Support Family Care as Well as Retirement
Myra Marx Ferree, October 2012
Social Security
Why Washington D.C. is Broken - And How It Can be Fixed
Thomas E. Mann, October 2012
Social Movements, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Election 2012
Could Reducing Tax Expenditures Tame the Federal Debt?
Leonard Burman and Marvin M. Phaup, October 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
How the Veterans Administration Became a Leader in American Health Care
Colin D. Moore, October 2012
Health Care Reform, Health Care Delivery
How ObamaCare Helps Americans Who Already Have Health Insurance
Jonathan Oberlander, October 2012
Health Care Reform
Is Wall Street Looking to Profit from School Reform?
Jeff Faux, October 2012
Economic Growth & Innovation, School Reform
The Uneven Presence of Women and Minorities in America's State Legislatures - And Why It Matters
Beth Reingold, October 2012
Women, Race and Ethnicity, Civic Engagement
Misleading Political Advertising: How Changing National Rules Cloud the Picture for Maine Voters
Emily D. Shaw, October 2012
Voters and Voter Participation, Media and Public Opinion, Civic Engagement
How Health Reform Can Help Rural Communities Improve Care for People with Addiction Issues and Mental Illness
Cathleen E. Willging, September 2012
Cities and Regions, Mental Health, Health Care Reform
What Americans Think about the Future of Social Security
Fay Lomax Cook and Rachel L. Moskowitz, September 2012
Social Security, Media and Public Opinion
Toward a New U.S. Strategy in the Middle East
Bruce W. Jentleson, September 2012
U.S. Foreign Policy, Security & Intelligence, International Development
What the Ryan Budget Means for Missouri Families
David Brian Robertson and Theda Skocpol, September 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Cities and Regions, Family Policies
How Head Start Helps to Fight Childhood Obesity
David E. Frisvold, September 2012
Health Care Reform, Preschool Education, Antipoverty Policy
Should We Cut Social Security to Reduce the Deficit?
Max J. Skidmore, September 2012
Social Security
How Mandated Auto Insurance Helps Make Sense of the Individual Mandate in Health Reform
Jennifer B. Wriggins, September 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Health Care Reform
Why Private Insurance Vouchers Cannot Replace Medicare
Judith Feder, September 2012
Medicare & Medicaid, Health Care Reform
Why America's Public Sector Unions Face Political Attacks
John Stephen Ahlquist, September 2012
Unions & the Labor Movement, Jobs and Workers, Social Movements
Does Fortifying the Mexican Border Keep Unauthorized Immigrants from Coming to the United States?
David Scott FitzGerald, September 2012
Immigrants & Immigration Reform
How the Ryan Budget Would Undercut American Education
Lynne Miller, September 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, School Reform, Higher Education
Why America Needs to Regulate Career Programs that Burden Taxpayers and Break Promises to Students
John Dorrer, September 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Higher Education
Providing Health Care to Unauthorized Immigrants - Lessons from San Francisco
Helen B. Marrow, September 2012
Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Cities and Regions, Health Care Reform, State & Local Government
Debunking Common Myths about Health Reform
Katherine Swartz, September 2012
Medicare & Medicaid, Health Care Reform, Media and Public Opinion
Will the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Survive?
Richard M. Valelly, September 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Voters and Voter Participation, Election 2012, Courts & Court Decisions
How the New Voter ID Laws Impede Disadvantaged Citizens
Marcus Anthony Hunter, September 2012
Voters and Voter Participation, Election 2012
Democrats, Republicans, and the Prospects for Women Candidates in Election 2012
Karen Beckwith, September 2012
Women, Election 2012
Could a New Republican President Stop ObamaCare and Roll Back Medicaid without Congressional Legislation?
Frank J. Thompson, September 2012
Medicare & Medicaid, Health Care Reform, Election 2012
Young Americans Face Clear Choices in the 2012 Elections
Richard F. Doner, September 2012
Voters and Voter Participation, Election 2012, Civic Engagement
Worries about Safety: The Real Price of Gun Violence
Philip J. Cook, August 2012
Gun Control
Community Health Clinics - The Hidden Health Revolution
Lawrence R. Jacobs, August 2012
Medicare & Medicaid, Health Care Reform
Building an Economy for All
Jacob S. Hacker and Nathaniel Loewentheil, August 2012
Jobs and Workers, Economic Growth & Innovation, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
The Quest for Women's Votes in Election 2012
Kira Sanbonmatsu, August 2012
Women, Voters and Voter Participation, Election 2012
How Progressives Can Regain the Initiative
Marshall Ganz, August 2012
Social Movements, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Pell Grants are America's Investment in Needy Yet Promising College Students - Why Not Tell Them?
Sara Goldrick-Rab, August 2012
Higher Education, Media and Public Opinion
The Past and Future of the Senate Filibuster
Eric Schickler and Gregory Wawro, August 2012
Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Election 2012
How to Reduce Persistent Poverty for Single Mothers
Randy Albelda, August 2012
Jobs and Workers, Women, Antipoverty Policy
The Prospects for Reducing Poverty are Dismal - Unless America's Leaders Change Course
Sheldon Danziger, August 2012
Jobs and Workers, Economic Growth & Innovation, Unemployment Insurance, Antipoverty Policy
Affirmative Action and Its Future
John D. Skrentny, August 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Higher Education
What the Ryan Budget Plan Would Mean for Virginia
Christopher Howard, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
The Ryan Budget and Medicare - Headed the Wrong Way
Larry Polivka, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Medicare & Medicaid
What a Tax on Wall Street Speculation Can Do for America
Dean Baker, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Economic Growth & Innovation
How to Make Sure a Growing U.S. Economy Helps the Poor
Lane Kenworthy, July 2012
Antipoverty Policy
The Ryan Budget and Michigan: A Few Win, but Millions Lose
Luke Shaefer and Theda Skocpol, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Why the Republican-Ryan Plan for Medicaid Would Hurt the Most Vulnerable and Put the Fifty States in a Bind
Colleen M. Grogan, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Medicare & Medicaid
How the Ryan Budget Supported by House Republicans Would Devastate Low-Income Americans
Scott W. Allard, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
If Republicans Slash Funding for Low-Income Americans, Can Nonprofit and Religious Charities Fill the Gap?
Scott W. Allard, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
What Women Will Lose if the Ryan Budget Becomes Law
Ann Orloff and Christine Percheski, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Women
The Ryan Republican Budget: A Blueprint for Permanent Austerity
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson , July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
The Truth about the Individual Mandate in Health Reform
Theda Skocpol, July 2012
Health Care Reform
Cap Carbon Emissions and Pay Dividends to Citizens - A Strategy to Unite Americans against Global Warming
Michael W. Howard, July 2012
Environment, Climate Change Policies & Politics
Why America's Food is Still Not Safe
Adam Sheingate, July 2012
Pharmaceutical & Food Regulation
The Worrisome Role of Racial Prejudice in Public Support for Tough Criminal Penalties
Steven E. Barkan, July 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
Will Taxes on Sugary Soft Drinks Improve Health?
Jason Fletcher, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Pharmaceutical & Food Regulation
How the GOP-Backed Ryan Plan Threatens Middle-Class Retirement Security
Nancy J. Altman, Eric Kingson and Benjamin Veghte, July 2012
Social Security
Why the Ryan Budget is a Bad Deal for Ohio
Peter M. Shane, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
The Future of the DREAM Act - Legislation to Open Opportunities for Young Undocumented Immigrants
Robert W. Glover, July 2012
Immigrants & Immigration Reform
The High Stakes for Maine in Fights about the Ryan Budget
Luisa S. Deprez and Amy Fried, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Demanding Fairness on the Job: New Uses for an Old Law
Jessica Garrick, June 2012
Unions & the Labor Movement, Jobs and Workers
How Alaska Citizens Benefit Equally from Shared Wealth
Michael W. Howard, June 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Environment
Providing Labor Protections for Home Care Workers
Sandra Butler, June 2012
Jobs and Workers, Women, Courts & Court Decisions
Why State Unemployment Insurance is Broken – And What Can be Done to Fix It
Jeffrey B. Wenger, May 2012
Unemployment Insurance
Fighting Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Amy Blackstone, May 2012
Jobs and Workers, Women
How the 1970s Made America Both More and Less Equal
Thomas Borstelmann, May 2012
Inequality & the Middle Class
Raising Excise Taxes Can Help Fight Alcohol Abuse
Philip J. Cook, May 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
The Congressional Stalemate on Immigration Reform
Katherine Fennelly, May 2012
Immigrants & Immigration Reform
What Americans Really Think about Health Reform
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol, May 2012
Health Care Reform
Why Turning Medicare into Vouchers Will Not Work
Theodore R. Marmor, May 2012
Medicare & Medicaid
Federalism and the Dynamism of American Politics
David Brian Robertson, May 2012
Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Using the Private Sector to Deliver Public Benefits
Andrea Louise Campbell and Kimberly Morgan, May 2012
Medicare & Medicaid
Are Americans Losing the Chance to Retire Comfortably?
John C. Scott, May 2012
Aging Society, Social Security
Is Military Aid an Effective Tool for U.S. Foreign Policy?
Patricia L. Sullivan, May 2012
War & the Military, U.S. Foreign Policy
Meeting the Challenge of Preventing Foreclosures
Todd Frederick Swanstrom, May 2012
Housing
The Vital Role of Medicaid in American Health Care
Colleen M. Grogan, May 2012
Medicare & Medicaid, Health Care Reform
Rethinking the Safety Net for Low-Income Americans
Scott W. Allard, May 2012
Antipoverty Policy
Why the Rich Have an Interest in Paying Higher Taxes
Robert H. Frank, May 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Inequality & the Middle Class
Women's Pathways to America's State Legislatures
Kira Sanbonmatsu, May 2012
Women, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Election 2012
What Struggles over the Right to Vote Reveal about American Democracy
Alexander Keyssar, May 2012
Voters and Voter Participation
How Job Losses Affect Youngsters and Their Schools
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, May 2012
Jobs and Workers
How People Make Sense of Politics
Katherine Cramer Walsh, May 2012
Voters and Voter Participation
Can Advocacy Groups Speak for the Most Disadvantaged?
Dara Z. Strolovitch, May 2012
Women, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Civic Engagement
The Promise of Community Organizing for School Reform
Mark R. Warren, May 2012
School Reform, Civic Engagement
The High Stakes for Health Care in Election 2012
Theda Skocpol, May 2012
Medicare & Medicaid, Health Care Reform, Election 2012
How Neighborhoods Can Help Poor Black Women Fight AIDS
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, May 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Antipoverty Policy
Education Improves When Communities Come Together to Help All Students
Dane Smith, May 2012
School Reform, Higher Education, Civic Engagement
Race and Penalties at the Frontlines of Welfare Reform
Joe Soss, May 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Antipoverty Policy
Is the Southwestern Border Really Unsafe?
Ernesto Castañeda and Josiah M. Heyman, April 2012
Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Gun Control, Criminal Justice
How Ronald Reagan Taught Republicans to Love Tax Cuts
Monica Prasad, April 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, U.S. Foreign Policy, International Development
What Americans Believe about Voting Rights for Criminals
Christopher Uggen, April 2012
Criminal Justice, Voters and Voter Participation, Media and Public Opinion
Family Care for America’s Sick and Frail Elders
Douglas A. Wolf, April 2012
Aging Society
Grand Strategy and American Foreign Policy
Hal Brands, April 2012
U.S. Foreign Policy
Why is Patient-Centered Health Care Important?
Paul D. Cleary, April 2012
Health Care Reform
Immigration in the Midwest
Katherine Fennelly, April 2012
Immigrants & Immigration Reform
Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State
Cybelle Fox, April 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Social Security, Antipoverty Policy
Protesting Wall Street: A Brief History
Beverly Gage, April 2012
Social Movements
U.S. Presidents and the Challenge of Party-Building
Daniel Galvin, April 2012
Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Election 2012
Why America’s Election System is Failing – And How to Fix It
Heather Gerken, April 2012
Voters and Voter Participation, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Election 2012
Birth Control is an Economic Issue for Women and Their Families
Carole Joffe, April 2012
Jobs and Workers, Women, Health Care Reform, Election 2012
Competing Media Stories and U.S. Public Opinion on Climate Change
Frederick W. Mayer, April 2012
Environment, Media and Public Opinion
Accountability in Education as a Civil Rights Cause
Jesse Rhodes, April 2012
School Reform, Civic Engagement
Do Election Reforms Promote Equal Participation?
Elizabeth Rigby, April 2012
Voters and Voter Participation
The Moral and Economic Case for Health Insurance
Jennifer Prah Ruger, April 2012
Medicare & Medicaid, Health Care Reform
How Voters Evaluate the Class Backgrounds of Candidates
Meredith Sadin, April 2012
Voters and Voter Participation
$2-a-Day Poverty in the United States
Kathryn Edin and Luke Shaefer, April 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Antipoverty Policy
The Vital Role of Government in U.S. Economic Innovation
Fred Block and Matthew R. Keller, April 2012
Economic Growth & Innovation
How Conservatives Have Undermined U.S. Environmental Policy
Judith A. Layzer, April 2012
Environment
Why Many Americans Resent Public Employees
Katherine Cramer Walsh, April 2012
Jobs and Workers, Media and Public Opinion
Social Security is in Good Shape – And Does Not Drive the Deficit
Theda Skocpol and Benjamin Veghte, April 2012
Social Security
How Community Organizations Can Build National Networks
Richard L. Wood, April 2012
Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Civic Engagement
What Can Government Do to Support Employed Mothers?
Ann Orloff, April 2012
Women, Antipoverty Policy
The Disadvantages of America’s Prison Boom
Becky Pettit and Bruce Western, March 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
Union Decline and Rising U.S. Wage Inequality
Jake Rosenfeld and Bruce Western, March 2012
Unions & the Labor Movement, Jobs and Workers, Inequality & the Middle Class
Fathers' Work and Child Wellbeing
Christine Percheski and Christopher Wildeman, March 2012
Inequality & the Middle Class, Antipoverty Policy
Happy Talk about Diversity Avoids Difficult Racial Issues
Douglas Hartmann, March 2012
Race and Ethnicity
The Rising Challenge of Poverty in the Suburbs
Margaret Weir, March 2012
Cities and Regions, Antipoverty Policy
The Future of America's Transportation Infrastructure
Thomas Fisher, March 2012
Science & Technology, Public Budgets and Taxes, Economic Growth & Innovation, Environment
Paid Family Leave in California and New Jersey: The Benefits for Working Families and Employers
Eileen Appelbaum and Ruth Milkman, March 2012
Jobs and Workers, Women, Inequality & the Middle Class
Low-Wage Workers and Paid Family Leave: The California Experience
Eileen Appelbaum and Ruth Milkman, March 2012
Jobs and Workers, Women, Inequality & the Middle Class
The Value of Helping Immigrants Become U.S. Citizens
Irene Bloemraad, March 2012
Immigrants & Immigration Reform
Who Gets What They Want from Government?
Martin Gilens, March 2012
Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Media and Public Opinion
Can America Afford to Maintain Its Position in the World?
Richard Lachmann, March 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, U.S. Foreign Policy
Partisan Battles and Shifting Public Opinion on Climate Change
Robert J. Brulle and J. Craig Jenkins, March 2012
Environment, Media and Public Opinion
'None of the Politicians Come to See Us at All' – How Rural People View Government and Political Parties
Katherine Cramer Walsh, March 2012
Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Media and Public Opinion
U.S. Living Standards and Global Competition: Lessons from Abroad
Peter Evans, March 2012
Jobs and Workers, Economic Growth & Innovation
Human Capital in Difficult Times: Maine's Competitive Skills Scholarship Program
Sandra Butler, Luisa S. Deprez and John Dorrer, March 2012
Higher Education, Antipoverty Policy
Governance through Engaged Citizenship
Harry C. Boyte, March 2012
Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Civic Engagement
Opening the Doors to Higher Education for Low-Income Women: The Success of Maine’s Parents as Scholars Program
Sandra Butler and Luisa S. Deprez, March 2012
Women, Higher Education, Antipoverty Policy
How Progressives Saved Election-Day Voter Registration in Maine
Amy Fried, March 2012
Voters and Voter Participation, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Distrust in Government as a Political Weapon
Amy Fried, March 2012
Media and Public Opinion
Why Immigration Worries Americans – Especially Rural Residents
Katherine Fennelly, February 2012
Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Media and Public Opinion
When Cooperation through Government Makes Sense
Jane Mansbridge, February 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
The Downside of Urban Growth by Undemocratic Means
Michael Peter Smith, February 2012
Cities and Regions, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Why U.S. Unemployment Insurance is in Financial Trouble
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, February 2012
Unemployment Insurance
Tax Expenditures: What They are and Who Benefits
Christopher Howard, January 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Making American Jobs Better for Everyone
Paul Osterman, January 2012
Jobs and Workers
Aging Networks Can Improve Long-Term Care and Lower Costs
Larry Polivka, January 2012
Aging Society, Medicare & Medicaid
How Social Movements are Using the Internet to Change Politics
Deana A. Rohlinger, January 2012
Social Movements, Media and Public Opinion, Civic Engagement
How the GI Bill Built the Middle Class and Enhanced Democracy
Suzanne Mettler, January 2012
Higher Education, Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Does Class Matter When Americans Vote?
Jeffrey Stonecash, January 2012
Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
How Social Security Encourages Older Americans to be Active Citizens
Andrea Louise Campbell, January 2012
Aging Society, Social Security, Civic Engagement
How Government by the Privileged Distorts Economic Policy
Nicholas Carnes, January 2012
Unions & the Labor Movement, Public Budgets and Taxes, Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
How America Can Better Enforce Laws to Protect Workers
Andrew Schrank, January 2012
Jobs and Workers
Women’s Voice in American Politics
Kristin Goss, January 2012
Women, Social Movements, Civic Engagement
Fighting Rigged Markets Promotes Equal Opportunity
Dean Baker, December 2011
Jobs and Workers, Economic Growth & Innovation, Inequality & the Middle Class
Beyond Class War: Americans Want Government to Promote Equal Opportunity
Lawrence R. Jacobs, December 2011
Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Media and Public Opinion
The Truth about Undocumented Immigration
Douglas S. Massey, December 2011
Immigrants & Immigration Reform
Children of Imprisoned Parents – Unintended Casualties of the Prison Boom
Christopher Wildeman, November 2011
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
Contacting Disadvantaged Citizens Turns Them into Voters
Carrie Ann LeVan, November 2011
Race and Ethnicity, Voters and Voter Participation, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Making Sense of the Tea Party
Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson, October 2011
Voters and Voter Participation, Social Movements, Election 2012
Health Reform: What Does It Do for Americans?
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol, October 2011
Health Care Reform
Why Americans Can't See Government -- and Why It Matters
Suzanne Mettler, October 2011
Public Budgets and Taxes
How Washington Has Made the Rich Richer – And Abandoned the Middle Class
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson , October 2011
Public Budgets and Taxes, Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy