Associated PressJanuary 16, 2022
14min0
This is whittling down family incomes at the precise moment when people are grappling with higher prices.
Tag: Urban InstituteNatasha Ducre surveys the kitchen of her devastated home, which lost most of its roof during the passage of Hurricane Milton on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. Ducre, her husband, three children and two grandkids rode out the storm in a government shelter and returned to find their home unlivable and much of their furniture and belongings destroyed by rainwater. Image via AP/Rebecca Blackwell.
Associated PressJanuary 16, 2022
Guest AuthorMarch 6, 2019
5min384
This isn’t about politics or privatization. This is about saving lives.
Ryan NicolFebruary 4, 2019
5min631
The report follows up on a 2017 analysis, showing bigger benefits this time around.
A.G. GancarskiOctober 2, 2018
4min474
A new study from the left-leaning Urban Institute offers one simple trick to reduce Florida’s prison population by three percent. Merely reclassifying drug possession as a misdemeanor, per the group’s analysis released Tuesday, could lead to 2,700 fewer inmates by 2025. Five states have done so thus far, the Urban Institute contends, and all have seen […]
Brendan FarringtonMay 29, 2017
7min221
Lucy McBath is afraid many more people will die if Florida Gov. Rick Scott signs a bill making it harder to prosecute when people claim they commit violence in self-defense. She already lost her son, an unarmed black teenager, when a white man angry over loud music and claiming self-defense fired 10 times at an […]
Associated PressOctober 30, 2015
7min219
In proposing the U.S. adopt a flat tax coupled with a levy similar to a European-style value added tax, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is contributing to a division in the Republican presidential field. Some simply want to cut existing rates. But others — Cruz among them — suggest scrapping the nation’s tax code entirely and […]
Guest AuthorAugust 25, 2015
5min438
On the opening day of the 2014 Session in the Florida House of Representatives, then-Speaker of House Will Weatherford spoke at length about an issue that few leaders in government talk about: generational poverty. During his remarks, Weatherford noted, “There will always be poverty — the kind that results from temporary setbacks: job loss, foreclosures, […]
Guest AuthorAugust 25, 20155min301
On the opening day of the 2014 Session in the Florida House of Representatives, then Speaker of House Will Weatherford spoke at length about an issue that few leaders in government talk about — generational poverty. During his remarks, Speaker Weatherford noted “There will always be poverty — the kind that results from temporary setbacks: […]
Christine Jordan SextonApril 23, 20153min336
It’s not clear what, if any, dollar amount the federal government will approve in new Medicaid supplemental funding for hospitals. But the Urban Institute wants to make one thing clear: the $1.6 billion figure that is being bandied about in correspondence is not an estimate of the amount of money that the Low Income Pool […]