Metropolitan Policy Program

a social network diagram

How social networks impact economic mobility

Camille Busette and Fred Dews

Friday, February 12, 2021

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris watches as President Joe Biden signs executive orders on his racial equity agenda at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 26, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

What steps is the Biden administration taking on racial equity?

Andre M. Perry and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, January 28, 2021

FILE PHOTO: People line up outside a Kentucky Career Center hoping to find assistance with their unemployment claim in Frankfort, Kentucky, U.S. June 18, 2020. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston/File Photo/File Photo

Proposals for racial justice and worker mobility

Annelies Goger, Martha Ross, and Fred Dews

Friday, December 11, 2020

Kindergarten teacher Princess Bryant and paraprofessional Emily Lichtenstein (L) meet their incoming students and parents remotely before the first day of classes in the new school year at the Tynan Elementary School in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., September 18, 2020. Bryant will begin the school year teaching classes virtually from her classroom because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Playful learning: A new path to education reform

Helen Shwe Hadani, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Fred Dews

Friday, December 4, 2020

The Michigan State Capitol building is seen through the spokes of a motorcycle during the ABATE of Michigan Annual Freedom Rally outside of the Michigan State Capitol building in Lansing on Sept. 29, 2020. Bikers gathered to speak on behalf of motorcyclists who want changes to the recent auto insurance reform law that puts motorcyclists at a disadvantage.

State and local issues in the 2020 election

Amy Liu and Fred Dews

Friday, October 23, 2020

Oct 4, 2020; Paradise, Nevada, USA; A general overall aerial view of Allegiant Stadium and Las Vegas strip during the NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and the Las Vegas Raiders. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

The 2020 election in blue metros and red states

David F. Damore, Bill Finan, and Robert E. Lang

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Yellow roses signified you were for giving women the right to vote in 1920. They were plentiful Tuesday as it was the 100th anniversary of the Tennessee House of Representatives casting a vote that ratified the 19th Amendment (Tennessee was the state that got the amendment to its required threshold) a reenactment was held on the House floor of the vote in Nashville, Tenn. Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020,

Reflections on gender equality and the 19th Amendment at 100

Stephanie Aaronson, Emily Cleffi-Tristani, Christina Kwauk, Robin J. Lewis, Amy Liu, Molly E. Reynolds, Isabel V. Sawhill, and Morgan Welch

Friday, August 21, 2020

Washington, DC - April 29, 2017: Thousands of people attend the People's Climate March to stand up against climate change. By Nicole Glass Photography

What’s in Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan?

Joseph W. Kane and Adrianna Pita

Friday, July 24, 2020

A worker sanitizes loungers as beaches are reopened with restrictions to limit the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S., June 10, 2020. REUTERS/Marco Bello

Tracking COVID-19’s spread into less urban, whiter, and more Trump-friendly places

William H. Frey and Fred Dews

Friday, June 12, 2020

Alexeen Simms, a server at the Hungry Tarpon Restaurant in Islamorada, Fla., provides a luncheon entree to a couple Monday. June 1. 2020. After being closed to visitors since March 22, 2020, to help curtail the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Florida Keys reopened to tourists Monday. Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Podcast: A roadmap for reopening America

John R. Allen, William A. Galston, Ross A. Hammond, Molly Kinder, Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, Rashawn Ray, and David Wessel

Wednesday, June 3, 2020