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What does the shooting of Leonard Shand tell us about the mental health of civilians and police?
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Police officers aren't robots. They're people.
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Brookings Despite most knowing about mental health services, only a small fraction of police officers use them. explores why 42h
Understanding the role of despair in America’s opioid crisis
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Carol Graham discusses the causes and consequences of the opioid crisis and what policymakers can do to address it.
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Brookings The numbers about the opioid crisis are staggering. explains what's going on in her voter vital: 4d
In the shadow of impeachment hearings, dueling visions for the nation
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A year away from the 2020 election and in the shadow of impeachment hearings, a wide-ranging new survey from PRRI explores the profound cultural fissures in the country. With Americans deeply divid…
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Brookings Where do factions of the American public stand on issues like immigration, impeachment, and health care? will host , , and to talk about these questions on Oct. 21 at 10 AM ET. Register here 6d
Five takeaways from early polls on impeachment
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Bill Galston writes that the Ukraine incident has increased support for impeachment that was already high along partisan lines. Among his takeways from early polls are that Republican support for impeachment is very low, and most Americans are...
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Brookings . provides five big takeaways from early polls on impeachment 7d
Black household income is rising across the United States
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The distribution of income in America is the most uneven it’s been since 1967. Yet the median income for Black households reached its highest peak ever in 2018.
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Brookings U.S. income distribution is the most uneven it’s been since 1967, when the Census Bureau began tracking it. But in 2018, the median income for Black households reached its highest peak ever. unpacks the trend 14d
US foreign-born gains are smallest in a decade, except in Trump states
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America’s foreign-born population registered the smallest growth between 2017 and 2018 than in any year since the onset of the Great Recession, according to new data.
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Brookings America’s foreign-born population registered the smallest growth between 2017 and 2018 than in any year since the onset of the Great Recession. Read William Frey’s analysis of recent trends: 18d
What cutting-edge neuroscience tells us about early childhood development
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It's time to go beyond the word gap.
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Brookings What cutting-edge neuroscience tells us about early childhood development 18d
The purpose of multilateralism
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The post-Cold War moment witnessed a tremendous flourishing in multilateral cooperation. However, multilateralism can only operate in the geopolitical context within which it exists.
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Brookings World leaders convened for #UNGA this week amidst an increasingly competitive world. ’s wrote about what can be done to save multilateralism in this new landscape 22d
Not just a typographical change: Why Brookings is capitalizing Black
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Brookings is adopting a long-overdue policy to properly recognize the identity of Black Americans and other people of ethnic and indigenous descent in our research and writings.
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Brookings We are adopting a policy to properly recognize the identity of Black Americans, capitalizing Black when used to reference census-defined Black or African American people. and explain why it was important to make this change 26d
America has two economies—and they’re diverging fast
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Red and blue America dramatically represent different segments of the economy. Here is what you need to know.
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Brookings Not only are red and blue America experiencing two different economies, but those economies are diverging fast 27d
Competitive multilateralism
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Anticipating the 75th anniversary of the forging of the United Nations, the Foreign Policy program at Brookings is examining the dynamics that increasingly define the future of multilateral order.
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Brookings The resurgence of great power tensions, the return of proxy warfare, the fusion of civil wars and transitional terrorism—these trends and more are testing the strength of the multilateral order 31d
The fight to contain climate change – Implementing Paris, mobilizing action
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Ahead of the UNGA and UN Climate Summit, Brookings Senior Fellow outlines the key missing ingredient for advancing more effective climate action-- political motivation.
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Brookings The Paris Agreement has a crucial role to play in helping to drive #ClimateAction. But true progress will require motivated countries 32d
The differing impact of automation on men and women’s work
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Men and women are likely to be affected by automation in different ways. Here are different policy ideas that could help.
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Brookings Recognition of the gendered structure of the labor market suggests the need for gender-sensitive policies to help workers navigate labor market disruptions caused by automation 33d
Setting the record straight on Black voter turnout
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Black people not wanting to vote simply isn’t empirically true relative to other racial groups.
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Brookings "Black people not wanting to vote simply isn’t empirically true relative to other racial groups. We must take into account the ways that Blacks are systematically denied the ability to vote." & Mark Whitlock on Black voter turnout 36d
Are the multilaterals ready to act on pandemic prevention and other global public goods?
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As leaders gather at the UN General Assembly, a new Global Action Plan for healthy lives and well-being for all will launch.
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Brookings Ahead of next week’s #UNGA meeting, Kaci Kennedy McDade and Gavin Yamey examine how the UN can unite with multilateral organizations to improve health globally 38d
How states can improve America’s immigration system
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The federal government can't solve the crisis itself.
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Brookings The U.S. immigration crisis has grown larger than the capacity of the federal government to address on its own. and explain how states can step in 39d
The Times takes on college legacy preferences: Let’s hope it is the knock-out punch
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Richard Reeves comments on the New York Times' position to end preferential treatment with legacy admissions.
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Brookings Responding to a recent Editorial Board op-ed, calls legacy college admissions an “embarrassment to the institutions who apply them, and by extension, to the nation as a whole.” 40d
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Brookings There’s little evidence that legacy admissions actually help colleges. refutes a few of the arguments defending the policy in America 38d
US-Japan relations in the era of Trump
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No bilateral relationship matters more to Japan than the one with the United States. But the relationship is now entering uncharted territory.
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Brookings Trump's “America First” policy, with its transactional view of alliances and its brazen economic unilateralism, challenges key pillars of the U.S.-Japan relationship. 44d
Estimating the economic impact of a wealth tax
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This blog post summarizes the findings of the paper, "Progressive wealth taxation," which discusses the empirical evidence on progressive wealth taxation, the elements needed to make a US wealth tax work, and the economic effects on inequality.
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Brookings How much revenue would a progressive wealth tax raise? As part of the Fall 2019 edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Emmanuel Saez & estimate the impact: #BPEA 45d
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2019 Edition
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Papers from the Fall 2019 edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity include a look at the potential financial impact of progressive wealth taxation, the results of the ACA Medicaid expansion on hospital utilization, policy options to...
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Brookings Today kicks off Fall 2019 #BPEA, the leading conference series and journal in economics for timely, cutting-edge research about real-world policy issues. Browse 6 new papers on issues ranging from wealth taxation to college graduation rates 45d