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Affordable housing for special-needs adults

Friday, Jul 10, 2020 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

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Up Front

Reopening America: How division and vulnerability hamper our response

Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Gary Connell reacts while talking about the economic impact to his hairstyling business after a nine-week disruption due to the stay-at-home order for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, outside Salon Plaza in Wheaton, Maryland, near Washington, U.S., June 11, 2020. Picture taken June 11, 2020. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

Report

Well-being and mental health amid COVID-19: Differences in resilience across minorities and whites

Carol Graham, Yung Chun, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, and Stephen Roll

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Wilmington

The Avenue

How Wilmington, Del. is revitalizing vacant land to rebuild community trust

Laura Semmelroth

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Reports

Portrait of the middle-aged woman looking through the window on a rainy day

Report

The midlife dip in well-being: Economists (who find it) versus psychologists (who don’t!)

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

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Middle Class

A primer on access to and use of paid family leave

Isabel V. Sawhill, Sarah Nzau, and Katherine Guyot

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Philadelphia

Cities & Regions

Transformative placemaking: A framework to create connected, vibrant, and inclusive communities

Jennifer S. Vey and Hanna Love

November 19, 2019

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Income Inequality & Social Mobility

The geography of desperation in America: Labor force participation, mobility trends, place, and well-being

Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

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Income Inequality & Social Mobility

Neighborhoods and opportunity in America

Robert Collinson and Jens Ludwig

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Blog Posts

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How We Rise

Beyond corporate statements of solidarity and CEO rhetoric of equality

Makada Henry-Nickie

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Man wearing an Enough shirt during a protest against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in St. Charles, Missouri, U.S. June 6, 2020. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant

How We Rise

America: Individual effort is not going to help us address racism

Camille Busette

Thursday, June 11, 2020

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Up Front

Losing your own business is worse than losing a salaried job

Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev, and Olga Popova

Thursday, May 7, 2020

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Events

The happiness curve: Why life gets better after 50

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EDT

Occupational licensing: Too much of a good thing?

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EST

The promise of birth control

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

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Related Books

How’s Life? 2013

By Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD

2013

The Pursuit of Happiness

By Carol L. Graham

2012

How to Improve Governance

By David de Ferranti, Justin Jacinto, Anthony J. Ody, and Graeme Ramshaw

2009

Experts

Carol Graham

Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow and Research Director - Global Economy and Development

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Multimedia

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Podcast Episode

Does money make you happy?

Crazy Money with Paul Ollinger

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Three protesters embrace each other during a peaceful protest against police violence organized by the San Francisco LGBT Community Center in San Francisco, California December 24, 2014. An 18-year old black teen was fatally shot by police at a gas station late on Tuesday in a St. Louis suburb near where unarmed teen Michael Brown was killed by a white officer in August. REUTERS/Stephen Lam (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)

Up Front

Racial gaps in hope, ill-being, and deaths of despair

Thursday, February 27, 2020

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Economic Development

Positioned for growth: Advancing the Oklahoma City innovation district

Scott Andes, Jason Hachadorian, Bruce Katz, Anna Siprikova, Jennifer S. Vey, and Meg Walker

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

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