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Michigan ranks number 35 out of 50 states in providing educational, economic, and community involvement opportunities for its citizens, according to the…
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In Friday's blog posting, we started to look at representations of the poor. These representations shape the public conversation about who "deserves" help…
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Everything from Lady Poverty to Welfare QueensClose your eyes and conjure up an image of the ‘poor.’ Do the faces you imagine inspire sympathy or…
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A person in poverty does not, of course, need something different from their news than a person who is not in poverty. Hypothetically, that is. But today…
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If you really want to understand childhood brain development you could read all of the books written by folks like Jack Shonkoff, but for those of us who…
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Time is a limited commodity for everyone. The rich, the poor, and almost everyone in between can be over scheduled and overtired. If you are a regular…
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We all know the sequence of life stages: Infant. Toddler. Child. Adolescent. Young Adult. Adult… But historically we haven’t always marched through these…
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Almost exactly two years ago, I crossed the Atlantic and took up residence in a land of rainstorms and rainbows to do a Masters in Social Policy. I landed…
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Oh the summer holidays. Frankly, some things in the news get missed. So I'm glad the folks at Sociological Images were paying attention to recent economic…
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We love research. Studies grounded in empirical research drive a lot of what we do and who we talk to for State of Opportunity reporting. Yet, if we take…