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  • Income Inequality Despite Economic Growth

    Income Inequality Despite Economic Growth

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    Louise McLarnan

    Emerging economies are facing the same type of income inequality that recent protests have highlighted in developed countries.

  • One Region, Two Plans? How Chicagoland Can Take Economic Flight

    One Region, Two Plans? How Chicagoland Can Take Economic Flight

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    Policy in Practice

    Two new reports highlight the challenges and opportunities for economic development in the Chicagoland area.

  • Shock Therapy for the Homeowner

    Shock Therapy for the Homeowner

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    Nicholas Epstein

    High gas prices popped the housing bubble.

  • Flooding the Urban Food Deserts

    Flooding the Urban Food Deserts

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    Abigail Mackenzie Kerl

    A new Chicago start-up hopes to fill up the city’s food deserts with a new approach—and with sound policy.

  • Disparities in Home Are Disparities in Health

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    ashleegabrysch

    A family’s housing reality is often viewed as an index of its economic situation. However, Brian Jacob, Jens Ludwig, and Douglas Miller’s new NBER working paper joins a groundswell of research that demonstrates that housing situations are in fact proxies for much more than one’s socioeconomic status.