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3 questions

Taming inflation in the U.S.

Published Oct 11, 2023

Economist Laurence Ball discusses the Fed's next move and whether it can achieve the sought-after 'soft landing'

Changing hearts, minds, and stomachs

Published Spring 2023

SAIS alumni Téa Ivanovic and Peter Schechter founded Immigrant Food to defend the vision of America as an immigrant nation / Johns Hopkins Magazine

The metamorphosis

Published Spring 2021

Lawrence T. Brown finds a metaphor of resistance while showing how segregation spread its wings through Baltimore / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Q+A

Report outlines a path for reducing child poverty

Published Feb 28, 2019

Child poverty affects about 1 in 8 children in the U.S.; Hopkins economist Robert Moffitt discusses why it's a critical issue and what can be done about it

RACE FORUMS

Women of color and public policy

Published Sept 17, 2018

'Women of color are no longer leading resistance from the margins,' says adjunct lecturer Chiedo Nwankwor, who will speak during a JHU Forums on Race in America event on Wednesday

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The Kerner Report at 50

Reflections on race and inequality

Published Feb 26, 2018

Anniversary conference explores landmark 1968 findings on racial unrest

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Study: Black, white kids fare equally in public housing

Published May 8, 2017

Racial disparities in school, jobs, earnings for those who grow up in subsidized housing have largely vanished, but a troubling difference in neighborhood quality remains