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The Abstract
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> Edited by Torie Ludwin, Arnold Ventures (AV)
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Home is where the heart is, as Elvis once sang.
Home is also where jobs, schools, parks, and grocery stores are, too — which is why our nation’s growing crisis of unaffordable housing has ramifications beyond even the painful burden of a rising rent check or mortgage payment.
“Housing is a gateway to all the other things in people’s lives,” said Dr. Jenny Schuetz, Arnold Ventures’ new vice president of infrastructure, housing, in her inaugural Q&A with the communications team. “You can just see by looking around how much less opportunity people have if they live in a neighborhood that does not have good services.”
Schuetz has joined Arnold Ventures to take on this challenge, leveraging data and research to understand how policymakers can ensure housing supply meets demand, fixing broken markets, and helping families access all the opportunities our nation has to offer.
Read our Q&A with Dr. Schuetz>
Read our press release on Dr. Schuetz joining Arnold Ventures>
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Partnering with HBCUs on
Criminal Justice Research
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(Center: Kideste Yusef, department chair of Justice and Political Studies at Bethune-Cookman University with Randy B. Nelson, right, CEO at 21st Century Research & Evaluations, Inc., at the event)
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have a rich history of community building and academic excellence. This week, AV’s latest Building Research IDeas and Generating Evidence (BRIDGE) series convening, held at Howard University in Washington, D.C., brought together researchers, academics, and representatives from HBCUs to discuss the most effective ways to build partnerships that will yield high-end causal criminal justice research. This includes potential collaborative research opportunities with AV.
Learn about our request for proposals>
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Criminal Justice
- At around 20 picket lines throughout Illinois, correctional staff held protests against poor working conditions inside the state’s prisons, including understaffing and dangerous environments, WPSD reports.
- According to the Alabama Daily News, reports of increased violence in the state's prisons are attributable to a combination of understaffing and overcrowding due to the state’s extremely low parole rate.
- During a hearing of the Joint Prison Oversight Committee in Alabama, Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike criticized the chair of the state’s parole board over low parole rates and her failure to meaningfully respond to lawmakers’ questions, AL.com reports.
Health Care
- In The Washington Post, Noam Levey and McKenzie Beard discuss the costly effects of hospital consolidation for patients, based on a new brief from the Urban Institute on the relationship between hospital consolidation and medical debt. (free link)
- The Guardian highlights the “unlimited dollars” of one of the most expensive hospitals in the country, Indiana’s Parkview Health, whose monopolistic prices are a result of two decades of consolidation including the purchase of former rival hospitals and 300 physician and provider offices.
- “This Majority staff report reveals how Medicare Advantage insurers are intentionally using prior authorization to boost profits by targeting costly yet critical stays in post-acute care facilities,” read the findings from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Read “Refusal of Recovery” and coverage about it at McKnights.
Higher Education
- Danielle Douglas-Gabriel in The Washington Post reports on a firm rebuke from the U.S. Department of Education: it is ceasing new student borrower accounts for the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA), after the organization has shown repeated errors in handling accounts, including the failure to process more than 460,000 applications to a loan repayment plan. (free link)
Democracy
- At the urging of readers, The Washington Post’s Why Not? project looks at the virtues of ranked-choice voting. (free link)
- Fox News notes how Republicans and Democrats across the country are working to ensure election systems serve voters, not parties, by backing open primary voting.
Organ Donation Reform
- Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is investigating allegations that an organ procurement organization urged donations from a patient who was still alive, in Fox News.
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AV’s Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice Jennifer Doleac appeared on Bloomberg Television’s Wall Street Week. In the episode, she discussed the impact of crime on victims and communities, suggesting that local policymakers should take a scientific, evidence-based approach to crime and criminal justice. Specifically, they should focus more on “promising to find a solution, rather than claiming to have a solution up front.”
Watch Jen Doleac on Wall Street Week >
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