Tearing our nation apart: Why Americans fail to understand that crime is connected to inequality
I have previously written about how Democrats must engage with the topic of crime, and now new reports document how the GOP intends to use crime as their major wedge issue in this November’s election. But the conversation does us a disservice if it is limited to crime...
The Matthew Effect: How even middle class families face growing inequality after natural disasters
By Anna Rhodes, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rice University; and Max Besbris, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Friendswood, Texas, is the type of community that one might think of as a “best case scenario” when it comes to...
Overwhelming State Mandates: Milwaukee County will face future budget issues without sales tax increase
On the day he proposed his $1.37 billion budget, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley once again called for the state to allow the county to raise its sales tax. It was a move Crowley said could decrease property taxes and maintain critical services for Milwaukee...
Irpin begins to dismantle and rebuild residential complex destroyed at start of Russia’s invasion
Oleksandr Markushin, Mayor of Milwaukee’s Sister City of Irpin, announced on September 29 the start of the process to restore residential buildings damaged in the early days of Russia’s unprovoked wide-scale invasion. The first civilian structure to be...
Ukraine responds to Russia’s declaration of war against Western democracies with NATO application
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy formally applied for NATO membership on September 20, along with a public statement. The application came after the Russian dictator signed an illegal decrees to annex four Ukrainian territories, a move widely believed to...
Economic Shock: Putin’s global Energy War continues to falter after sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines
By Amy Myers Jaffe, Research professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Russia’s effort to conscript 300,000 reservists to counter Ukraine’s military advances in Kharkiv has drawn a lot of attention from military and political analysts. But...
A need for systemic change: Why Black girls are four times more likely to get suspended than White girls
By Andrea Joseph-McCatty, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Tennessee Andrea Joseph-McCatty is an assistant professor at the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee. Her research examines disproportional school suspensions and, in...
Forced Labor: New report says millions of vulnerable people worldwide remain trapped in modern slavery
Nearly 50 million people were trapped in forced labor or forced marriage on any given day in 2021, according to a new report published on September 12, the latest reminder that “the scourge of modern slavery has by no means been relegated to history.” The...
Deadly Driving: Milwaukee works at overcoming state bureaucratic barriers to make urban highways safer
Tristain Thomas remembers seeing plenty of reckless driving while living along Milwaukee’s West Fond du Lac Avenue during his childhood. A police officer would park just blocks away from Thomas’ home in the Grasslyn Manor neighborhood to catch drivers barreling down...
Where to plug in? Why people of color face more barriers to adopt e-vehicles than White consumers
By Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, Adjunct Lecturer in Urban Studies, The New School A nationally representative survey of 8,027 Americans shows that across all racial demographics, overall interest in purchasing electric vehicles is high. Among those surveyed, 33% of...
A skeptical Corn Belt: Researchers seek methods to unobtrusively install solar stations on farmland
Extensive land across the Midwest could be used for solar power, but instead is tied up in row crops. Researchers have examined how to build solar panels without taking out that cropland. Sprouting out of the corn like a super crop are four arrays of solar panels...
Marcelia Nicholson: A Day in Photos with the Chairwoman of the County Board of Supervisors
Considering herself to be an educator at heart, Marcelia Nicholson made the tough decision to leave her career as a teacher in response to her community’s lack of fair representation. To become an elected official was her best chance to try fixing what she saw...
