With this year’s Sochi Olympics being the most expensive games to date, at an estimated $51 billion, the world is left to wonder: Where do we go from here? The economic impact of the Olympics has been long-debated, but the general consensus is that cities see benefits during the event itself, and those benefits tend […]
Honor Fitzgerald examines how Malaysian citizen Yong Vui Kong was given a second chance on death row, and what the case could mean for justice, sentencing, and poverty In 2007, Malaysian citizen Yong Vui Kong, at the age of nineteen was arrested for trafficking 47.27g of Heroin. As a naive and vulnerable fourteen year old […]
Whilst property ownership remains central to the “American Dream”, suburban segregation by race and wealth presents US policymakers with a serious problem Since the 1950s, a hallmark of American life has been the presence of the suburbs. Rows of nearly identical houses, white picket fences, smiling families and perhaps even a dog or two comprise […]
The UK could be in line for a big minimum wage rise. We ask if legal increases are good policy, and if so, are they enough? Right now in the UK, in-work poverty outstrips poverty in households without work. In other words, most people in poverty are already taking home a wage, it just isn’t […]
Everyone is talking about the “squeezed middle”, but what about the least well-off? It’s time to stand up for an effective policy approach Right now, the call to save the “squeezed middle” can be heard from all over the political spectrum. There aren’t many concepts which have more currency in our national discourse. However, just […]
