State of economy for less-educated young people compounds growing Opportunity...
Pell City 2007 HS graduation; Flick/kwsanders While parts of the economy have rebounded since the Great Recession of 2008, the effects have been much worse for the poor, and especially the...
View ArticleHow loneliness kills
Flickr/cc/ewixx Judith Shulevitz, in the May 13, 2013 New Republic has an interesting read “The Lethality of Loneliness.” Excerpt: “Psychobiologists can now show that loneliness sends misleading...
View ArticleVery nice calls to service by Oprah & Jon Murad (HKS) at 2013 Harvard...
Jon Murad, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Kennedy School, is going off to be a cop in New York City. His Graduate Student address is a wonderful call to serve. Snippets: “I’m probably not...
View ArticleNextdoor and NYC team up to enhance neighboring
Flickr/kiki99 I’ve written in the past about efforts to use 21st century technological tools to enhance neighbors’ connections with each other, the sort that are far less common today than in the 1960s...
View ArticleGreat NYT Op-Ed on stalling youth opportunity by Jen Silva
Flickr/nfscnnr One of our post-doctoral researchers, Jen Silva, has a very interesting op-Ed in Sunday’s New York Times that comes out of her research talking to young people in Lowell, MA and...
View ArticleGood places for kids’ social mobility
Scholars Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hedren, Patrick Kline and Emmanuel Saez (from Harvard and Berkeley) have garnered richly deserved attention for their interesting retrospective look at which places were...
View ArticleDeserving a place in an individualistic society
Flickr/wallyg Kevin Carey, director of the education-policy program at the New America Foundation, writes in Chronicle of Higher Education the speech he wished the dean of admissions had given to the...
View ArticleAmerican Grace co-author David Campbell on religion and giving
Flickr/Much0 David Campbell (Co-Author of American Grace) has a piece in TIME.com on the link between religion and giving. Excerpt: Over the last twenty years, one of the most stunning changes to the...
View ArticleCreating local civic indicators with big data
BARI experimental flyer to increase response rate Very interesting lunchtime talk by Dan O’Brien (from Boston Area Research Initiative) and Chris Winship (at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-director...
View ArticleYouth vote down significantly in 2012 elections, erasing much of gains in...
The 2012 Current Population Survey November supplement has now been released which enables one to examine voting patterns by different racial and ethnic groups and different age groups. Youth turnout...
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