Racial disparities in the US emerge from a long history of discriminatory policies, programs, and practices and from ongoing patterns of systemic racism. Calling out these root causes of racial disparities is the first step toward remedy.
Nearly 70 percent of adults think the 2020 Census will ask who in their household are citizens—even though the Supreme Court ruled that the citizenship question could not be included.
Children of immigrants are an important part of this country’s future, and like all children, they need quality education, access to health care, and stable housing to thrive. A new data-driven resource provides a state-by-state look at children of immigrants and their parents, families, and households.
Although the black-white homeownership gap has grown to its highest level in 50 years, not all metropolitan homeownership gaps are the same. Three key factors explain the gap across 105 cities, but 17 percent of the gap remains unexplained.
A new report scrutinizes the role of public housing and federal rental assistance programs in helping low-wage workers live closer to jobs and opportunity. Read the report and listen to the new Critical Value episode
to get the behind-the-scenes story of the research-a-thon that created the report.
