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Roosevelt House Faculty Forum Op-Eds, Discussions, Writing, and Recent Research, Contributed by Roosevelt House Faculty Associates and Colleagues
February 28, 2014
Affordable Housing: The Most Effective Way to Combat Inequality
Dasani Coates and her siblings in the room they shared with their parents in a Brooklyn homeless shelter. Image Credit: Ruth Fremson, New York Times By Shyama Venkateswar Earlier this week,… 
February 21, 2014
How to Combat Global Corruption
Image Credit: Transparency International By Shyama Venkateswar Corruption and bribery remain commonplace practices in many parts of the world, where one in four people paid a bribe in the past year,…
February 7, 2014
Congressional Gridlock Dooms Immigration Reform
Disappointing news emerged from Washington this week as House Speaker John Boehner admitted that it was unlikely the House would pass an immigration bill in 2014. This comes a week…
January 31, 2014
The New Year’s Promise for Change
A new year has arrived, and with it a renewed commitment for change from President Obama to improve the lives of millions of Americans. The President’s State of the Union…
January 13, 2014
Triple Jeopardy: Dismantling of the Public Sector and the War on Women
There has been much buzz in recent news surrounding the widening inequality gap, the long-term effectiveness of President Johnson’s Great Society programs in combating poverty, and President Obama’s call to…
December 19, 2013
P-Cubed News: From the Director’s Desk — It’s Time For a New War on Poverty
Almost 50 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson announced the War on Poverty in his State of the Union address to Congress on January 8, 1964. In response to a poverty…
December 12, 2013
P-Cubed News: From the Director’s Desk – Shifting the Debate on Gun Control in the United States
This week marks the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, when an armed gunman fatally shot twenty elementary school children and six teachers in what would…
December 5, 2013
P-cubed News: From the Director’s Desk – Moving Beyond New York’s Controversial Stop-and-Frisk Policy
As Mayor Bloomberg’s tenure comes to an end, the troubling stop-and-frisk policy of the New York Police Department will be remembered as one of his administration’s most controversial legacies. A…
November 26, 2013
P-cubed News: From the Director’s Desk – The Paradox of Food Policy
Millions of Americans will sit down with friends and families this week at a Thanksgiving table laden with more food than anyone could possibly eat. While we bask in the…
November 21, 2013
P-cubed News: From the Director’s Desk – Can the International Community Get its Act Together to Fight Climate Change?
An international climate change conference of the United Nations Framework Convention is currently underway in Warsaw, Poland. With the recent devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines as the backdrop, negotiations are tense on…
November 14, 2013
P-cubed News: From the Director’s Desk – How Can We Tackle the Problem of Mounting Student Loan Debt?
Affording a college education in the United States today is an issue of great concern for millions of families across the country. Costs at public four-year colleges have increased by…
August 8, 2013
Op-Ed: White Poverty Must Be Good Poverty
Some journalists and scholars have referred to white poverty as an invisible form of poverty1. Its invisibility stems from its baffling absence from the discussion about poverty in America. How…
July 24, 2013
Detroit’s Bankruptcy: How Did We Get Here, and What’s Next?
The filing for bankruptcy of the city of Detroit on July 18, 2013, represents the largest municipal bankruptcy in the history of the United States. While bankruptcy of private corporations…
May 30, 2013
In Fight Over New Global Development Goals, Round One Goes to “Democracy” (Sort of)
It’s official: democracy is now a universal goal that all nations must meet. Well, not exactly. But if you read between the lines of a United Nations report due out on…
March 5, 2013
OpEd: “Why I Like Ike – Sometimes”
Faculty Associate Andrew Polsky authored the following Op Ed for the Oxford University Press’ OUPBlog: We are in the midst of a great Dwight Eisenhower revival. Our 34th president, whose…
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