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Last week The Atlantic published a piece about an oft-cited portion of census data. In 2007, for instance, 6.4 percent of adults who lived under the poverty line and didn’t work in the past year said it was because they …
Bad Data Makes Social Welfare Advocacy Harder Than it Should Be Read more »
When I began my dissertation work in a public housing development in Chicago, one of the things I encountered was a general distrust of researchers from universities. The distrust was justified: since the 1980’s academics have been coming and going …
Things to Remember When Researching in Communities of Color Read more »
[my memere: an ancestor who teaches me about courage daily] One of the things that I think students of all stripes (but particularly students new to high school, undergrad and grad school) struggle with is rejection. At some point in …