New Orleans Studies of the largest 100 school districts in the United States indicate that there is such extensive re-segregation that schools are more segregated now than they were almost 50 years ago. Research on communities indicates that racial segregation in housing is part of the vicious cycle driving continued segregation in city after city. …
Politics of the Court Fight and the Stalemate to Come
New Orleans As the sides dig in over the appointment of a new Supreme Court justice to replace Antonin Scalia after his recent death it is fascinating to watch in real-time the mammoth miscalculations that the Republicans, and perhaps the Democrats as well, are making about the likely impact of their positions on the appointment …
Distressed Communities Index
Little Rock Now this is interesting. A relatively new techy, DC-based research group has crunched a lot of US Census Bureau data and developed a new tool for looking at the state of inequality nationally called the Distressed Communities Index. The Economic Innovation Group looks at seven factors in figuring out the index. The factors …