As inequality and downward social mobility are on the rise in the United States, research on the causes and solutions is urgently required. To influence the direction of future research, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine...

Betsey Stevenson, CNBC: "What we've been seeing is a massive reallocation of workers. First, we expanded how much stuff we were buying, so the goods sector just did remarkably well early on in the pandemic. And it was the service sector that got...

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Nationwide, police departments are integrating facial recognition technology into their investigative processes. The technology has been criticized as "exacerbating racist policies," because of false identification, especially among African American...

Javed Ali, CBS News: "This level of activity is absolutely having an impact on our national security, more from the flow of drugs in the U.S. than the targeting of Americans in Mexico. But it still gives you another tool. Why not use it when the...

Stephanie Leiser, Accounting Today: "There's an enormous amount of municipal government financial data locked up in PDF documents. Unlocking that data has the potential to radically improve transparency and dramatically enhance our ability to...

As school shootings continue to be a problem facing America, policymakers can't seem to make progress when it comes to a response, whether that be improved mental health resources or gun control. Frustrated with the lackluster response, Javed Ali,...