The recent stories out of Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., have highlighted the distrust that exists between African-Americans and the police, but a new data release from Gallup shows just how deep that distrust goes – and how African-Americans in big cities in particular lack confidence in police. CONT. […] Read more »
Urban Blacks Have Little Confidence in Police
As controversy continues to swirl about police officers’ treatment of blacks, an analysis of Gallup data underscores how much less likely U.S. blacks are than whites or Hispanics to express confidence in the police. The analysis also reveals that blacks living in urban areas are significantly less likely than blacks […] Read more »
How the Democrats lost: The failed ground game
The combined Democratic campaign placed a large portion of its 2014 success on the premise that they would use a massive investment in technology, grassroots strategy, and boots on the ground to reprise the Obama urban coalition of minorities and younger voters. It failed miserably, and Democrats around the nation […] Read more »
The United States of Unease
… For the past month, CityLab has reported results from the Atlantic Media/Siemens State of the City poll, which explored how Americans living in urban, suburban, and rural areas rate their communities on all the key components of daily life, from education, transportation and safety to the environment and culture. […] Read more »
The Majority of Urban Parents in the U.S. Say They Struggle to Meet Household Expenses
Here’s news that won’t surprise any parents: Raising children is really expensive. According to recent Department of Agriculture projections, middle income U.S. parents who had a child in 2013 should expect to spend about $245,340 before she hits 18. And parents raising children under the age of 18 in U.S. […] Read more »
What Makes People Poor?
Let’s imagine for a moment that there are no political pressures distorting our discussion of poverty and that we can look at it as a technical problem, not a moral one. Maybe we would find that most explanations – left, right and center – are not mutually exclusive but mutually […] Read more »