Rural-nonrural disparities in postsecondary educational attainment revisited
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email U.S. inner-city schools often receive the lion’s share of attention from education reformers and charter school founders, but rural schools educate up to a third...
View ArticleHow economic scarcity can alter perceptions of race, enhance discrimination...
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email To anyone who has struggled to pay the bills, it’s no news that income inequality has been on the rise — things have been good at the top, but for many others,...
View ArticleGender disparities and journalism: Research perspectives
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email A landmark survey in 2011 of more than 500 media companies worldwide found that women made up only about one-third of the journalism workforce. Although U.S....
View ArticleHow judges understand, try to address racial disparities in the criminal...
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Black and Hispanic adults historically have been overrepresented in the U.S. prison population. In 2016, almost 38 percent of inmates who were in the custody of...
View ArticleStudent achievement gaps: Public opinion on reducing disparities affecting...
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email The issue: Gaps in student achievement often fit familiar patterns. Children from wealthy families generally perform better on tests than students from poorer...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Prop 47 reduced felony drug arrest rates, racial disparities
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email After the passage of California’s Proposition 47, which reduced criminal penalties for drug possession, felony drug arrest rates declined and racial disparities...
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How a proposed HUD rule would make it harder to file some housing...
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email In August, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed a rule critics say would make it harder for people to fight housing discrimination. The...
View ArticlePaid family leave: What the research says
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email In the lead-up to the 2020 elections, the Journalist’s Resource team is combing through the Democratic presidential candidates’ platforms and reporting what the...
View ArticlePay gap between men and women: What the research says
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email In the lead-up to the 2020 elections, the Journalist’s Resource team is combing through the Democratic presidential candidates’ platforms and reporting what the...
View ArticleDisparity studies on municipal contracting: What they are and 9 questions...
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Government contracts can mean big dollars for minority- and women-owned firms — if they get them. Yet there’s often a wide disparity between the number of...
View ArticleNew research parses how income inequality drives homelessness in U.S.
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Income inequality drives hundreds of people into homelessness on any given night in dozens of communities across the U.S., finds new research in The Annals of...
View ArticleHow racial and ethnic biases are baked into the U.S. tax system
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Most U.S. taxpayers interact with the IRS and state tax departments once a year — to file their income taxes. The final amount owed may be seemingly unrelated to...
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Mental health disparities in older LGBTQ+ populations: A research roundup
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email In 2017, researchers estimated that 2.4% of the U.S. population 50 years and older identified as LGBTQ+, accounting for 2.7 million people. By 2060, they say,...
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