Many thoughtful people in the US are concerned about the effects that the 2025 federal budget reconciliation law will have on poor people in many states who are currently enrolled in Medicaid health coverage. KFF has put together a comprehensive analysis of the implications of this omnibus act for Medicaid patients here. I asked Gemini for a summary … Continue reading "The consequences of a trillion dollars"| Understanding Society
Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877. Artist Gustave Caillebotte. A current exhibition of the paintings of Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) at the Art Institute in Chicago is quite remarkable. It demonstra…| Understanding Society
The latest Triennale International Exhibition explores global imbalances through bold installations, data storytelling and visionary ideas It’s no news that political and biological inequalities are part of our daily lives, but can …| COOL HUNTING®
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Chicago is a highly diverse city, and it is a good example of life in a multicultural democracy. The image above is a photo of the crowd on Navy Pier on a recent Saturday summer evening. According …| Understanding Society
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Women’s health organisation Five X More published their second Black Maternity Experiences Report yesterday, 21st July 2025. The report surveyed more than 1100 Black and Black mixed-heritage women…| Baby Lifeline
A prior post made an effort to gain greater analytical clarity concerning the unfairness involved in the separation between the “one percent” economy and the rest of us. In what ways is the wealth owned by the super-billionaires an “unfair” extraction from the rest of US society? How can we account for the very rapid … Continue reading "Stock ownership as system-wide exploitation?"| Understanding Society
Much thinking about economic justice for working people has been framed by the nineteenth-century concept of “capitalism”: owners of enterprises constitute a minority of the population; they hire w…| Understanding Society
Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. With 124.14 surveillance cameras per 1,000 people, we not only lead the country, we have more than twice as many cameras per capita as 2nd …| mapping atlanta
Philip Pettit’s writings about republicanism offer a valuable and distinctive perspective on individual freedom and the nature of a good society. He develops those ideas most fully in Republicanism : a theory of freedom and government. Pettit’s core idea is that we should conceive of freedom as “non-domination” — that is, that an individual is … Continue reading "Republicanism and multicultural democracy"| Understanding Society
MBRRACE-UK’s State of the Nation report, published yesterday, looked at perinatal deaths of babies born in the UK in 2023. This includes babies that died after 24 weeks’ gestation, stillbirths, and babies that died within 28 days of life. The figures do not include terminations. At Baby Lifeline we are committed to making care safer and […]| Baby Lifeline
Access to banking and credit are the kind of mundane concerns that exist in the background of our everyday lives, right up until the moments when we really need them, like when we need a mortgage to buy a house or a short-term loan to cover the next week’s expenses. Unfortunately, like so many other […]| mapping atlanta
Historical carbon emissions are already locked into the climate system. Furthermore, there is increasing evidence that associated impacts now persist, through extreme weather, climate-related events like floods and wildfires, or longer-term changes to the environment and biosphere. We must give urgent attention to tackling current and future emissions, but it is also vital to ensure that we are well adapted and prepared for the unavoidable changes ahead. Here, Professor Sarah Lindley, conside...| blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk
Modern slavery and exploitation are critical challenges in the UK garment manufacturing and fast fashion sectors, which continue to require urgent attention from policymakers and regulatory agencies. Despite the potential for digital technology to enhance supply chain transparency, its effectiveness in mitigating labour exploitation is under-researched and underutilised. In this article, Dr Jon Davies, Professor Rose Broad, and Dr Amy Benstead outline research conducted by The University of M...| Policy@Manchester Articles
It feels like every week there’s a new food hall concept being opened or announced somewhere across metro Atlanta. Sometimes, a new food hall opens, then gets closed down within a couple months, th…| mapping atlanta
In 2019, the City of Atlanta adopted its Clean Energy Atlanta plan, which called for the city to achieve 100% clean energy generation by 2035. While increasing the production of clean and renewable…| mapping atlanta
Atlanta sits at the center of the history of public housing in America. We were home to the country’s first-ever federally-funded public housing complex, Techwood Homes, in 1936. A little over half…| mapping atlanta
Last month, we shared a snapshot of the landscape of large corporate single family landlords across metro Atlanta, showing that just the top ten of these companies own over 30,000 properties here i…| mapping atlanta
For the last decade, the Atlanta metro has been ground zero for corporate investors buying up single-family homes to turn into rental properties. Studies have consistently shown that more so than a…| mapping atlanta
For the last two-plus years, the place of the police in our society has been at the forefront not only here in Atlanta, but nationwide. But given the murder of Rayshard Brooks at the hands of an AP…| mapping atlanta
Across the state today, 1,120,314 acres of agricultural land, or about 3% of the total land mass, are owned by foreign investors who own the land not as a way of sustaining life and livelihood, but…| mapping atlanta