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Philadelphia Will Stop Billing Parents When Their Children Are Incarcerated

The announcement comes just hours after we highlighted the practice.

Marc Vetri, E-Verify and Philly's invisible restaurant workforce

Nearly all those let go when the Urban Outfitters deal closed already have new jobs. But that doesn't address the industry's larger issues.

Markeeta wakes up before dawn to chase her chef dreams

Rift Between Officers and Residents as Killings Persist in South Bronx (Published 2016)

Trust ebbs in a precinct with many murders but too few detectives.

Hate wave: Post-election incidents reported in region

SWASTIKAS AND anti-gay scrawling in the girls' room. A student brandishing a Confederate flag image on his laptop. Kids passing "White Power" and N-word graffiti on their way to school. A child...

6 charts showing race gaps within the American middle class | Brookings

The U.S. has substantial economic and racial inequality, and the two overlap. Black Americans, for example, are more likely to be poor. But as we argue in our new paper, “Time for justice: Tackling...

Generational Poverty: Is There a Way Out?

Mattie McQueen is desperately poor. So were her parents, her grandparents and her great-grandparents. So are her children and her young grandchildren. Is there a way out?

Reducing recidivism is a public safety imperative | Brookings

Proponents of criminal justice reform are cautiously optimistic about prospects for a sweeping statutory overhaul to the federal prison system by the end of the 114th Congress. In this post, William...