A year into his rookie year as 47th Ward alderman, Ameya Pawar sat down with me in his office on North Lincoln Avenue on a recent Monday evening. Despite pulling an all-nighter—he was writing a paper for a graduate class at the University of Chicago—the 31-year-old energetically listed for me all of his accomplishments and plans as alderman, a job that few expected him to win…
Could switching SNAP card refills to twice a month, and increasing afterschool snack programs, decrease disciplinary problems in Chicago Public Schools? A new study—and Obama’s former OMB director—support the idea.
A new study from the Urban Institute, led by former UIC prof Susan Popkin, finds a connection between the movement of former public-housing residents, decreased crime in the urban center, and increased crime in relocation neighborhoods. The correlation is strong, but the causation is complex.
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