The low-wage recovery: Industries and jobs after the Great Recession
2014 analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data by the National Employment Law Project that examines how jobs lost in the recession differ from those added in the recovery.
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What’s new in digital and social media research, April 2014: Facebook rumor cascades, online comments, collaborative news clips, more
April 2014 review of recent studies on a range of digital media topics, from information diffusion on Facebook to news business models.
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The mortgage interest deduction: Its geographic distribution and policy implications
2014 report from the Congressional Research Service on the use of the current mortgage-interest deduction as well as four possible methods for reforming it.
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Effects of skilled immigration on U.S. employment
2013 study from Harvard, Wellesley and Johns Hopkins Universities on the varied effects of skilled immigration on employment and native workers.
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How to mitigate climate change: Key facts from the U.N.’s 2014 report
2014 study by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on ways that nations, states and municipalities can act to limit or reverse trends in CO2 emissions.
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Estimating the incidence of rape and sexual assault: The problem of under-reporting
2013 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Research Council on ways to improve the accuracy of surveys on the incidence of rape and sexual assault.
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Media bias, partisanship and what it means for democracy: Research chat and reading list
Highlights and audio from a series of 2014 seminars held at the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as a reading list of related work by the scholars, selected by Journalist’s Resource.
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Can citizen campaigns and voluntary standards make businesses socially responsible? Research brief
2014 review of research concludes that, in order to ensure corporate social responsibility, voluntary regulation proves inadequate.
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Research chat: Peter Singer on cybersecurity and what the media needs to know
2014 discussion with the senior fellow and director of the Brookings Institution’s Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence.
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The struggle to restore voting rights for former prisoners: Research brief
2014 research brief on efforts to restore voting rights to former felons, by Michael Leo Owens of Emory University and the Scholars Strategy Network.
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