News
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Increasing Rent and the Struggle to Afford Rental Housing
Posted on June 2, 2016A recent article from The Atlantic‘s City Lab discusses a report on the increasing difficulties that many American hourly workers face in […]
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Research Reveals Trends in San Francisco’s Rental Prices
Posted on May 23, 2016Michael Anderson recently wrote an article for Medium entitled “A guy just transcribed 30 years of for-rent ads. Here’s what it taught […]
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Housing Policies Related to Poverty and Segregation in Milwaukee
Posted on May 13, 2016Wisconsin Public Radio recently published an article called “How Milwaukee’s Economic Social Disparities Correspond with Gun Violence: Measures of Poverty, Education, Housing […]
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Eviction Made Easier in Wisconsin
Posted on May 10, 2016In February, Laurel White, of Wisconsin Public Radio reported that the Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill that makes it easier for landlords […]
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Evicted Book Trailer
Posted on May 4, 2016Below is the book trailer for the new Go Big Read Book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. A book […]
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Go Big Read Selects ‘Evicted’ for 2016-17
Posted on April 27, 2016It’s the story of eight Milwaukee families faced with losing their homes. It’s also a powerful analysis of a little-known epidemic affecting […]
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Shipping Inmates Out of State
Posted on April 20, 2016A recent article from The Marshall Project discusses the hardships that families go through as states are shipping parts of their inmate […]
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ASPIREist Features Clint Smith
Posted on April 18, 2016ASPIREist is a new half-hour reality feature news show. Each episode has three features ranging a wide variety of topics. The purpose […]
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Utah Abolishes Life without Parole Sentences for Children
Posted on April 4, 2016Earlier this year, South Dakota abolished life without parole sentences for children. Last week Utah passed similar legislation. The new law does […]
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Nixon’s “War on Drugs” was Founded on Racism
Posted on March 28, 2016Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative have focused their work on the unequally high incarceration rates of African Americans. They argue […]