Blogs about: Policy

Water Infrastructure and Environmental Justice: Who Bears the Risk

Safe drinking water is a foundational public health guarantee. The distribution of water infrastructure failures follows familiar patterns of race and...

Housing First: The Evidence Base for Treating Homelessness as a Housing Problem

Housing First, providing permanent housing without preconditions, has become the dominant evidence based approach to chronic homelessness. Implement...

Medicaid Policy: What the Evidence Shows About Expansion and Access

Medicaid is the largest public health insurance program in the United States. Decisions about its structure and expansion have significant consequence...

Early Childhood Policy: The Evidence for Investing Before School

Investments in the earliest years of life produce returns that later interventions cannot match. The evidence for early childhood policy is among the ...

Criminal Justice Reform: What the Research Supports

Decades of 'tough on crime' policy produced mass incarceration without commensurate reduction in crime. A more evidencebased approach looks ...

Green Card Backlog and Skilled Immigration: What Research Shows About Talent Retention

The employment-based green card backlog has grown to decades-long waits for some nationalities. Research on the consequences for the US economy and fo...

Social Safety Net Programs: What Evidence Shows About Effectiveness

The American social safety net encompasses dozens of programs with varied designs and evidence bases. Understanding what research shows about effectiv...

Minimum Wage Research: What Studies Show About Effects on Workers and Businesses

Minimum wage debates have generated an extensive economics literature. Research using quasi-experimental methods has substantially clarified what wage...

Child Poverty Policy: What Research Shows About Programs That Work

The United States has higher child poverty rates than most wealthy nations. Research on what anti-poverty programs actually reduce child poverty and i...

Housing Policy and Affordability: What Research Shows About the Causes and Solutions

Housing costs have risen dramatically across the United States. Researchers have reached growing consensus on the causes and on which policy approache...