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  • Transitions in American Health Care: An Interview with Ezekiel Emanuel

    Transitions in American Health Care: An Interview with Ezekiel Emanuel

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    Gillian Kindel

    A doctor and scholar discusses health care reform and the future of American medicine

  • Leaping the Hurdles In Reproductive Health

    Leaping the Hurdles In Reproductive Health

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    Louise McLarnan

    In Guatemala, obstacles to effective family planning abound. One group is turning to a younger generation to create change.

  • What’s That Burger Emitting?

    What’s That Burger Emitting?

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    Abigail Mackenzie Kerl

    The business of food is bad for the planet. But the problem isn’t just a first-world one.

  • Where Will We Be Without the Individual Mandate?

    Where Will We Be Without the Individual Mandate?

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    Gillian Kindel

    With the Supreme Court considering the constitutionality of the individual mandate, how worried should policymakers be if the mandate must be abandoned?

  • Policy Radio | Health Care for the Next Generation

    Policy Radio | Health Care for the Next Generation

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    Chicago Policy Radio

    In this podcast, Dr. Genevieve Kenney of the Urban Institute discusses the impact of new health care laws on American children.

  • 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.