We summarize five recent studies that explore major issues facing the trucking workforce, including pay, working conditions and whether the trucking labor market is broken.
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We explore what “defund the police” means to criminologists, activists and legal scholars, recent research and what the future of policing in America might look like.
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The U.S. has some of the widest streets in the world. The value of land used for streets can be substantial where low population density and high housing costs converge, finds new research.
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Want to get a researcher-reporter partnership off the ground? Check out these tips based on years of collaboration between reporter Rachel Dissell and sociologist Rachel Lovell.
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An informal, collaborative partnership between reporter Rachel Dissell and sociologist Rachel Lovell reveals not just how, but why so many rape kits went untested in Cleveland.
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Research shows how tax policy at all levels of government affects taxpayers — and their ability to build wealth — differently by race and ethnicity.
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Analysis based on data spanning millennia reveals link between when governments were established and income inequality.
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Analysis links income inequality with increased cost burdens, rather than how fast housing prices rise.
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We highlight five studies that explore how gun injuries lead to billions of dollars in hospital costs and lost work time every year.
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Just before thousands of people in hundreds of U.S. cities rose up demanding racial justice and denouncing police violence, an investigative reporting team revealed that federal courts have been increasingly likely to shield police from civil lawsuits.
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