What happens to a community when a rural school closes?
One thing is clear from academic research on rural schools: closings and consolidations can drastically change the flavor of civic life in a rural community.
One thing is clear from academic research on rural schools: closings and consolidations can drastically change the flavor of civic life in a rural community.
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A new paper out of the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that for each additional dollar in per capita tax revenue collected in 1870, a black politician was 25% more likely to experience violence.
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Two experts offer journalists tips to help them better understand and cover white supremacists and other far-right extremists.
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Researchers have documented and quantified the physical and mental health toll that immigrant children experience during and after detention.
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Research in the journal Labour Economics pits three factors against each other to help explain why teen employment has been declining for decades.
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The wealth gap between the wealthiest and the poorest makes the American Dream just a dream for many. But perception can affect policy, and research shows many Americans still want to believe in economic mobility.
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Patients seeking mental health care deal with hurdles such as incorrect phone numbers, month-long delays in scheduling appointments and psychiatrists who refuse to accept insurance.
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Two experts — a university researcher and a former Census Bureau director — point out weaknesses in news coverage of the U.S. census and how journalists can do a better job covering the once-every-10-years population count.
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Knowing most people haven’t made time to read all 448 pages of the Mueller report, Harvard’s Tom Patterson has created an abridged version.
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As the U.S. prepares for its 2020 census, we summarize research that looks at who’s most likely to be missed by the decennial population count and how an incorrect tally can hurt communities.
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