Quality of Life

People walks cross a street practicing 'social distancing' at a commercial area of South Beach after local authorities restricted the activities of restaurants, bars, gyms, movie theaters and other similar businesses and rolled out a midnight curfew for precaution due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread, in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S., March 20, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

The Avenue

The qualities that imperil urban places during COVID-19 are also the keys to recovery

Tracy Hadden Loh, Hanna Love, and Jennifer S. Vey

Wednesday, March 25, 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

San Fransico

The Avenue

How San Francisco is adopting inclusive place management to revive its Civic Center Plaza

Monday, February 3, 2020

Open Works

The Avenue

How a Baltimore makerspace is encouraging trust between local residents, businesses, and institutions

Will Holman and Ronald C. Williams, Ph.D.

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Reports

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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

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Children & Families

Preventing unplanned pregnancy: Lessons from the states

Isabel V. Sawhill and Katherine Guyot

Monday, June 24, 2019

Blog Posts

Used Narcan (naloxone hydrochloride) containers and syringes sit in a case, after paramedics revived a man in his 40's, who was found unresponsive, after overdosing on opioids in Salem, Massachusetts, U.S., August 9, 2017. Picture taken August 9, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder - RC19B9CD7CC0

Policy 2020

How do we tackle the opioid crisis?

Christen Linke Young and Abigail Durak

Friday, October 18, 2019

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Policy 2020

Understanding the role of despair in America’s opioid crisis

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

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The Avenue

The future of the city doesn’t have to be childless

Hanna Love and Jennifer S. Vey

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

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Events

The happiness curve: Why life gets better after 50

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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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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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Podcast Episode

Robert Putnam on “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis”

Robert Putnam, E.J. Dionne, Jr., Richard V. Reeves, and Fred Dews

Friday, April 3, 2015

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Podcast Episode

Measuring the Pursuit of Happiness

Carol Graham and Fred Dews

Friday, March 28, 2014

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