Society

One Vote: Who will decide what’s ‘fair’ in state redistricting?

High-profile Supreme Court decisions and the stakes of the 2021 decennial redistricting processes elevated partisan redistricting into the national spotlight in 2020. The partisan gerrymandering debate focuses on the constitutional context and judicial precedent deciding which entities are responsible for drawing district lines. When the courts punt responsibility back to state legislatures, political strategists focus […]

Racialized Risk Assessment: Explaining the American Homeownership Gap 

Historical associations of Blackness with risk and Whiteness with stability along with broader forms of implicit biases continue to reinforce racial disparities in credit and housing, impacting rates of homeownership among Americans.   Homeownership: the core of the American dream, a proven tool for upward mobility and deeply entrenched in the national psyche. Yet, almost […]

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