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The U.S. Child-Care Crisis Is Torturing Parents and the Economy

Sandra Black, Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, quoted in Bloomberg.

Expanding availability and lowering costs could deliver a $1.6 trillion boost to GDP.

Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, published an opinion in the New York Times.

A Chance to Repair the Cracks in Our Democracy

Our norm-shattering president has taught us not to take our norms for granted.

Like many of my fellow Americans, I was aghast when President Trump refused to commit himself to a peaceful transfer of presidential power if he were to lose in the Nov. 3 election. And he revealed this in October, while consistently trailing the eventual victor, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., in the polls.

Robert Y. Shapiro, Wallace S. Sayre professor of government and professor of international and public affairs, published in the Washingtom Post.

Was 2020 really a disaster for polling?

The cruelty of parole in New York

Research by Columbia University’s Justice Lab reveals that Black people are between 50% and over 100% more likely to be charged with parole violations and Black and Latinx people remain under community supervision longer than similarly situated white people. In New York City, Black and Latinx people are stacked up in Rikers Island waiting for their parole violation cases to be resolved by state officials at a deeply troubling 12 and four times the rate of white people, respectively.