Radical Efforts to End Homelessness: Street Scribes
The story of the literary magazine whose authors are all homeless.
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Jan/Feb 2017
39 posts
This Is Your Brain on Poverty: Breaking Down Barriers
A surprisingly small tweak to the college admissions process yields an impressive increase in the enrollment of low-income students.
This Is Your Brain on Poverty: What’s in a Name?
Program designers are learning that the words they use really matter.
Ona Judge, the Washingtons, and the Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave
A portrait of George Washington as slave master.
This Is Your Brain on Poverty: The Default Choice
Automatic enrollment in a non-profit food program keeps more kids from going hungry on the weekends.
Letter From Berkeley, California: The Tsar Bell
The largest bell in the world sits in a courtyard at the Kremlin as a 200-ton tourist attraction. It has never been heard—until now, using digital tools.
This Is Your Brain on Poverty: Fewer Choices, More Graduates
Limiting the choices of community college students paradoxically leads to greater academic success.
A Museum for Healing Broken Hearts
In Los Angeles, the Museum of Broken Relationships gathers its emotional collection from the public—and, in the process, invites civilians of all classes and backgrounds to heal.
This Is Your Brain on Poverty
How behavioral economics is opening a creative new front in the fight against inequality.