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Yesterday the Brookings Institution released some new data about the rise in suburban poverty. Across the nation there are now more people living in…
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Initially, it was darkly funny and absurd: "What's up with all the 'gaps'?," we asked ourselves. Discipline gap. Gender gap. Achievement gap. And now the…
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If you want to know how kids gets their ideas about something like race or gender, it’s not just a matter of asking them. They might not know where they…
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This video blew my mind. A few friends posted the video on Facebook, and I finally got around to watching it this morning. It's a quick six-minute piece…
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Popping up on my facebook feed and elsewhere the last few weeks has been an urban legend in the making. It's a claim people on government benefits…
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Sometimes I think there should be a State of Opportunity book club. We read tons of books as part of our research here at State of Opportunity, and any…
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We post about alotofreports on this site. We use a lotofstatistics. Not sure if you noticed. The point is that these statistics all tell a story, and the…
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I found a recently released New America Foundation report really interesting for a couple of reasons. There's the data (more on that later), but I was…
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This week our Michigan Radio colleague Kyle Norris will be starting a series on homelessness. So, when I came across this post on the stellar Sociological…
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The U.S. poverty rate has hardly budged in half a century. The Census says the same share of our country is living in poverty right now as in the…